Author Archive for allisongraff
Acedia…so what?
I remember shopping in a bookstore in Moscow several years back and picking up an English-language book called Twelve Stories of Russia, A Novel: I Guess. I couldn’t help but buy the book because nothing can be more interesting to an American living in Russia than a book written by an American living in Russia [...]
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Tags: Acedia, Evagrius Ponticus, sloth
No, this isn’t an indictment directed at the other bloggers on this site. They’re doing a wonderful job with their posts on Festival sessions. Actually, I’m just repeating what Zondervan acquisitions editor Angela Scheff and writer Shauna Niequist said in a packed 8:30 a.m. Saturday morning session. What they said at the very beginning of [...]
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Tags: Angela Scheff, editing, Shauna Niequist, Zondervan
An editor for this self-editor
When I read the description for Beena Kamlani’s Friday morning session titled “Writer as Editor,” I almost thought, “Wow, I could lead that session.” I’m now glad that my hubris didn’t lead me to effect a coup d’etat for the podium in the Bytwerk Theatre because Kamlani, with 20 years of editorial experience at Viking [...]
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Tags: Beena Kamlani, self-editing, Viking Penguin
Mary Gordon sure knew how to bring a festival about often high-minded literature back down to earth! Of course, there were ample references to Jane Austen, Gogol and other canonized writers to keep the literary crowd happy, but she didn’t shy away from questioning whether books written by those authors actually have the ability to [...]
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Tags: Festival of Faith & Writing, Mary Gordon
Just yesterday I received the sad news that first-time FFW author Olga Grushin will not be able to make it to Festival this year. According to English professor Chad Engbers, she’s fallen quite ill and is unable to travel. Naturally, her several sessions, including her Thursday-morning pre-Festival reading and her interview on Saturday morning, [...]
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Tags: Mischa Berlinski, Olga Grushin, The Dream Life of Sukhanov
