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What, Why, How: Thaddeus Rutkowski

February 18, 2019 By Linda K Sienkiewicz

What: I write short fiction: short stories and flash fiction. The cut-off between flash fiction and short stories, it seems, is one thousand words, according to literary journals, and my pieces are … Continue reading >>

What, Why, How: Ethel Morgan Smith

January 14, 2019 By Linda K Sienkiewicz

What: My mother used to bring home old newspapers and Newsweek magazines after the white family she worked for threw them in the trash. I learned about the Civil Rights Movement from those old … Continue reading >>

What. Why, How: Binnie Klein

December 17, 2018 By Linda K Sienkiewicz

What: Like many writers, I started as a child with poetry, mostly moody tomes about the shape of loneliness. In my late adolescence and twenties, I got involved with the New York poetry “scene” – … Continue reading >>

What, Why, How: Lisa Romeo

May 7, 2018 By Linda K Sienkiewicz

What: In the early days of May, I’m celebrating 30 years of marriage (to my high school crush!), National Moscato Wine Day, and the publication of my first full-length book, Starting with Goodbye: A … Continue reading >>

American English, Italian Chocolate by Rick Bailey

February 26, 2018 By Linda K Sienkiewicz

Rick Bailey's brilliant essays on life's messiness, humor and awkwardness leap, spin and dazzle in American English, Italian Chocolate. He expounds with eloquence about the horror of house flies, the … Continue reading >>

What, Why, How: Ruth Ebenstein

January 8, 2018 By Linda K Sienkiewicz

What: I’m revising my forthcoming memoir, Bosom Buddies: How Breast Cancer fostered an Unexpected Friendship across the Israeli-Palestinian Divide. It’s a narrative that I’ve penned, with humor and … Continue reading >>

Linda K Sienkiewicz

Writing life, line by line