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Kathy Leonard Czepiel

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Kathy Leonard Czepiel is the author of A Violet Season (Simon & Schuster), named one of the best books of 2012 by Kirkus Reviews. Kathy's free newsletter, Better Book Clubs, appears twice weekly on Substack at https://betterbookclubs.substack.com/..., and her videos for book clubs appear occasionally on YouTube at https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCkaK.... Her short fiction has appeared in numerous literary journals, including Cimarron Review, Indiana Review, and CALYX, and she is the recipient of a 2012 creative writing fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts. Kathy taught writing at Quinnipiac University in Connecticut for 18 years and has written more than 500 feature stories for the New Haven online magazine Daily Nutmeg. ...more

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Well into our fall semester, I asked my students to decide what they wanted to study for our last reading. Anything in the textbook was fair game. One of my classes chose an excerpt from Ta-Nehisi Coates’s Between the World and Me. Most of my students are white, and if you’ve read Coates’s bestseller, you know how challenging it can be for white readers. I figured we were going to have to do a lot Read more of this blog post »
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" Thomas wrote: "I have similar feelings. I admire the subtle way that Borges builds his puzzles the same way I enjoy a good detective story. But they d ...more "
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" Interesting--I see the connection. As I was reading "The Secret Miracle," I was struck by that line: "He did not work for posterity, nor even for God, ...more "
" Oh, wow, yes, I hadn't thought of Bierce! I liked this story because it seemed to understand how my mind works as well, and the way it played with tim ...more "
" I enjoyed "The Form of the Sword" more than many of the pieces here, but again, I felt as if were being rushed through. Borges seems more interested i ...more "
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19860 Classics and the Western Canon — 4956 members — last activity 11 hours, 38 min ago
This is a group to read and discuss those books generally referred to as “the classics” or “the Western canon.” Books which have shaped Western though ...more
635403 Better Book Clubs — 35 members — last activity Apr 02, 2019 03:02PM
Join author and writing professor Kathy Leonard Czepiel for a chilling winter read of Mary Shelley's classic novel Frankenstein. Kathy will start you ...more
83380 Kathy Leonard Czepiel hosts a Q & A — 5 members — last activity Jan 11, 2013 06:43AM
From January 04, 2013 to January 9, 2013, Kathy will answer questions about her historical novel, A Violet Season, as well as what it's like to be a d ...more
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44773 Spring Short Story Panel — 196 members — last activity Mar 21, 2013 11:22AM
Four writers are swapping ideas about the precise art and tricky business of writing short fiction! Please feel free to join the group and leave comme ...more
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Reading Group Gold gets people talking.... • thought-provoking discussion questions • original essays and articles • exclusive author interviews • re ...more
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Thanks for dropping by. This group, focusing on the challenges of 21st century parenting, will run from January 02, 2013 through January 31, 2013. I'v ...more
74267 Q&A with Anne M. Carpenter — 359 members — last activity May 06, 2020 03:06AM
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