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Laurie Lisle
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The Pleasures of Handwriting
Handwriting is the writer's craft, and I like using it much more than digital fonts that mimic script.
Good reasons exist for writers to make loops and lines and dots and dashes by hand rather than always tapping keys on a keyboard, to use cursive instead of the cursor more of the time.
I write in longhand in my journal, in penned notes, and even on manuscripts. It's like a private language in my
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Reading Apeirogon left me with a vivid sense of what it means to be an Israeli and a Palestinian living in Israel. The book is haunting and powerful because of or despite its unusual organization and mix of fact and fiction, what the author calls a ...more |
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This overview of women's lives through their writings from the 1950s to the present is fascinating. After living in New York City from the late 1960s, through the 1970s, and into the 1980s, chapters covering those years were intensely reminiscent fo ...more |
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| I found this book about trauma and healing deeply moving. It's the account of a gifted poet, psychotherapist, and bereaved mother teaching poetry and help abused and disturbed girls find their voices. The importance of the act of writing is revealed. ...more | |
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