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Essay The One Thing You Should Do the Day Before You Die Earlier this week, NY Times best-selling author Sara Davidson wrote about talking to your parents about death and about she came to write her memoir The December Project… Sara Davidson March 28, 2014
Essay How Far Would You Go For Your Passion? Lisa Barr is the author of the award-winning debut novel, Fugitive Colors (Arcade), a suspenseful tale of an artist’s revenge on the “eve” of WWII. Today, she chimes… Lisa Barr March 27, 2014
Essay How to Have “The Talk” Earlier this week, NY Times best-selling author Sara Davidson wrote about she came to write her memoir The December Project (HarperOne), which is based… Sara Davidson March 26, 2014
Essay Writing Through the Artist’s Perspective This week, Alyson Richman, the author of The Lost Wife and the forthcoming The Garden of Letters (coming in September from Berkley) blogs for The… Alyson Richman March 25, 2014
Essay How the Rabbi Hooked Me In 2009, Reb Zalman Schachter-Shalomi asked N.Y. Times best-selling author Sara Davidson to talk with him about “The December Project.” He wanted to help people not… Sara Davidson March 24, 2014
Essay Is History a Prison or a Home? Earlier this week, Joshua Fattal wrote about remembering Hebrew School while a prisoner in Iran and being a Jew celebrating Christmas in Iranian prison. He… Joshua Fattal March 21, 2014