I just finished “Hour of Gold, Hour of Lead,” Anne Morrow Lindbergh‘s collection of diary entries and letters. Lindbergh was such a graceful writer, and yet today she’s remembered more for her marriage to aviation pioneer Charles Lindbergh than for her books. I never hear writers talk about her work, but a more eloquent writer on the [...]
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Anne Morrow Lindbergh: She Married Adventure, and Grief
Posted in Women, Writing, tagged anne morrow lindbergh, aviation, death, grief, maine on January 22, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
He Hates His Job
Posted in Cancer, Journalism, Pop Culture, Writing, tagged advice, cary tennis, salon, since you asked on November 4, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Late last night, I came across a post in Salon’s advice column Since You Asked: I’m a successful book editor but I hate my job. The subhead: My wife is leaving me but I can’t feel anything. I’m depressed. My life is falling apart. How do I reinvent myself? As a writer myself, I was [...]
A Teenage Girl, Truman Capote, Two Killers and a Full Moon
Posted in Pop Culture, Woman Up, Writing, tagged clutter family, in cold blood, kansas, nancy clutter, true crime, truman capote on November 15, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
If Nancy Clutter had survived, she would be 67 years old. But on Nov. 15, 1959, she was murdered in her family’s farmhouse near Holcomb, Kansas, along with her mother, father and 15-year-old brother. Six more years would pass before author Truman Capote would publish “In Cold Blood,” his landmark book about the murders. Nancy [...]
Eat, Pray, Love. Write, Sell, Repeat.
Posted in Film, Pop Culture, Writing, tagged chick flick, eat pray love, elizabeth gilbert, self help on August 17, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
There’s a new Julia Roberts movie, based on the 2006 bestseller by Elizabeth Gilbert, and we here at Woman Up are on the case. My friend and editor Melinda Henneberger cautions, If Your Husband Invites You to See ‘Eat Pray Love,’ Meditate on It. Taking her advice, I have yet to see the movie, nor [...]
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