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Another great blurb for Why We Came to the City… this...

Another great blurb for Why We Came to the City… this time from writer Elisa Albert, whose latest novel After Birth blew me away. It’s a huge honor to have her as a reader, and to get her profound thoughts on the book.

“Why did we come to the city, anyway? And why on earth would we ever leave? In Jansma’s able hands, these are and are not metaphors. We came because we are more ourselves as part of a collective. We came to learn our limits. We came so that we might know when to leave. This is a lively, addictive party of a book, and you’re invited.“

—Elisa Albert, author of After Birth

Events

Events:

Dates are up for the Why We Came to the City Tour!

(Not until February, but you can never plan too far in advance.)

For the coffee. #whywecametothecity (at Gorilla Coffee)

For the coffee. #whywecametothecity (at Gorilla Coffee)

I’m so proud to share this endorsement of Why We Came to...

I’m so proud to share this endorsement of Why We Came to the City today from author Darin Strauss. His kind and generous work as a writer, teacher, and father greatly inspire me. Many years ago ge was a mentor on my graduate thesis. Later I heard him speak about writing his memoir, Half a Life about a tragedy of his youth. What he said gave me the push I needed to write this novel, which began with a tragedy of my young adulthood.

“Like A LITTLE LIFE and THE LOVE AFFAIRS OF NATHANIEL P, Jansma’s WHY WE CAME TO THE CITY shows us, with beauty and insight, what it’s like to be young and smart in this time, and in this place. It’s a major achievement.”

- Darin Strauss, author of Half a Life

“It is sometimes asserted… that writers are...

“It is sometimes asserted… that writers are inherently betrayers, who will backstab everyone around them for a good line. If you go to bed with dogs, you wake up with fleas, and if you hang around writers enough, you will be traduced.”

- Phillip Lopate, On the Ethics of Writing about Others

“He closed his eyes and waited to feel the faint breeze - ...

“He closed his eyes and waited to feel the faint breeze - the first sign that told every real New Yorker a train was coming…” #whywecametothecity (at New York, New York)

Northern California Writers' Retreat

Northern California Writers' Retreat:

This awesome new writers’ retreat is now taking fiction submissions! Four days in the Santa Cruz mountains: March 16th-20th 2016. Includes yoga, local wines, fresh organic cuisine, and comfortable cabins in the redwoods.

New York Times bestselling author of The Language of Flowers, Vanessa Diffenbaugh will be the author in residence… sitting in on workshops, and sharing her publishing experience.

Instagram, Facebook, and Twitter!

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Reading

"Why is that always the question fiction writers are asked? Why do readers insist on knowing if the..."

“Why is that always the question fiction writers are asked? Why do readers insist on knowing if the story that held them enthralled was ‘real’?”

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Leslie Pietrzyk wonders why readers are so eager to assume that a fictional story happened in real life.

http://www.themillions.com/2015/10/the-truth-about-fiction.html

(via millionsmillions)

Welcome to New York, little galley! (OK not so little) ...

Welcome to New York, little galley! (OK not so little) #whywecametothecity (at Carnegie Hall)