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Forever Pregnant
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When I was teaching 10th grade English in a nouveau riche Long Island suburb, while I was going for a degree in social work and then a three year certificate in psychoanalytic psychotherapy and writing for me in study halls, late at night and Saturdays, I did not grasp the energy expended as I was […]
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I’m Looking out my Window and at This moment
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When I read recent reviews of Down to a Sunless Sea I feel not a few of them are so skewed that I cannot imagine what is going on in the reviewers’ minds. “Mortise and Tenon” which is essentially about a controlled and repressed young boy now leads a reviewer to say that he may turn […]
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Chit-Chat
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I just put up “Query for Down to a Sunless Sea” under Pages. It has served me well, for some reason. Perhaps my credits, after all these years, are substantial. In any case it is working. Rip off the structure for your own purposes. Received a new review at http://j-kaye-book-blog.blogspot.com. Jane’s introduction has been helpful; […]
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Query Letter for Down to a Sunless Sea
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Dear Editor: I am querying you as to a possible review of Down to a Sunless Sea. This short story collection presents a variety of styles, providing a different reading experience — poetic, journalistic, nostalgic, wrlyly humorous and even macabre. “Herbie” was listed in Martha Foley’s The Best American Short Stories of 1974. I was […]