Negative Space: An Interview With Lilly Dancyger
Catapult and Barrelhouse Books editor Lilly Dancyger talks about her debut memoir Negative Space.
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Lilly Dancyger editor of the anthology
Burn It Down: Women Writing About Anger and assistant editor of Barrelhouse Books never intended to write a memoir. She originally set out to write about her father Joe Schactman, a member of the iconic 1980s East Village art scene who died unexpectedly when she was young.
The book she eventually wrote,
Negative Space, combines Dancyger s reporting skills honed while earning her bachelor s and master s degrees in journalism with her rosy childhood memories growing up in the East Village and San Francisco to reveal instability fraying at the edges. Her interviews with those that were close to her father and analysis of his sculptures, paintings, and prints guide her to a better understanding of her loving father, whose escalating addiction to heroin sometimes overshadowed his creative
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As vaccinations rise and case numbers go down in New York State, we continue our transition to in-person events. Here’s a sampling of in-person and online happenings for the week ahead.
Event Honors Wappingers Baseball Giant | through April 30
To celebrate the return of baseball season, the Wappingers Historical Society is currently hosting a free online program about local legend and Baseball Hall of Famer Dennis “Big Dan” Brouthers through April 30. Called the “Terror of all Pitchers,” the 19th-century slugger led the league in batting average five times, the most by a 19th-century player, and his career .342 batting average still ranks ninth all-time. The virtual presentation, which can be viewed at the society’s website, features special video interviews with Brouthers biographer Roy Kerr and WHS member Rena Corey, who discusses growing up in Brooklyn during the heyday of the Brooklyn Dodgers.
Writer s Digest March/April 2021 Issue Reveal
The March/April 2021 issue of Writer s Digest is showing up in mailboxes and will soon be available at retailers. Get a sneak peek of the new columns we re introducing with the expanded page count!
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Mar 6, 2021
Writer’s Digest gets bigger, better, and more personal in the March/April 2021 issue! We’re unveiling our new expanded look (92 pages!) and a collection of new columns aimed to ensure writers of all levels and genres learn something to help them with their craft. In this issue, our features span intimate topics from how to make the most of your writing habits to writing about your own life with no judgment to advice for writing the most personal of all fictional scenes: the sex scene. This issue includes:
Personal Space: The Memoir Show, Sari Botton interviews Pam Mandel, whose book,
The Same River Twice: A Memoir of Dirtbag Backpackers, Bomb Shelters, and Bad Travel, is out from Skyhorse Publishing. The book charts Mandel’s travels abroad as a young woman trying to figure out her place in the world, in her family, and in relationships with men. Please consider purchasing the book from your local bookstore, or through Bookshop.
From the episode
Sari Botton: The book is part travelogue bringing the reader along on your post-high school trip in the early 80s, through Israel and other parts of the Middle East, India, Pakistan, the UK, and many other countries. But it’s also very much a coming-of-age memoir, and a story of survival on multiple fronts. Did you know when you sat down to write this book that it would be so many things at once? What was it like for you to weave those elements together?
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