A new issue of Books for Readers # 232 with reviews of books by Jim Minick, Clarice Lispector, The Porch Poems, George du Maurier, Louise Fitzhugh, Natalia Ginzburg, Marilynne Robinson; Kathleen Watt; Hambly, Connelly, Alison HRubbard, Imogen Keeper, James McBride, Jenny Offill. Reviews by Hilton Obenzinger, Eddy Pendarvis, Diane Simmons, Suzanne McConnell,and Christine Willis.
Meredith Sue Willis
Notes on Books, Culture, Politics, Weather, my Personal Weather, and the Garden
Saturday, March 16, 2024
Sunday, January 14, 2024
New Issue of Meredith Sue Willis's BOOKS FOR READERS #231 January 15, 2024
New Issue Of Books For Readers #231!
Reviews of books by Anthony Burgess, S.A. Cosby, Eva Dolan, Janet Campbell Hale, Barbara Hambly, Marc Harshman, P.D. James, Michael Lewis, Mrs. Oliphant, Paul Rabinowitz, Nora Roberts, Elizabeth Strout, Olga Tokarczuk, and more. Review by Dreama Frisk.
Saturday, December 16, 2023
Well, I asked ChatGPT to write a passage in my style, and it came back with this (Actually, more than this, but I can't stand even this much):
Saturday, December 02, 2023
Tuesday, November 14, 2023
Latest Issue of Meredith Sue Willis's Books for Readers #230
The latest issue of Meredith Sue Willis's Books for Readers #230 (https://www.meredithsuewillis.com/bfrarchive230-234.html#issue230) is now available.
Books by Henry Adams, Tsitsi Dangarembga, Jonathan Lethem, Magda Teter, Mary Jennings Hegar, Chandra Prasad, Timothy Russell, Carter Taylor Seaton, Edna O'Brien, Martha Wells, Thomas Mann, Arnold Bennett, and more. Reviews by Mary Lucille DeBerry, Joe Chuman, John Loonam, Suzanne McConnell, and Edwina Pendarvis.
Sunday, September 10, 2023
New Issue of Meredith Sue Willis's Books for Readers Newsletter #229 Now Available!
A New Issue of
Books for Readers # 229
Now online!
Reviews of books by Douglas Stuart, J. Nozipo Maraire, Camille Perri, William Makepeace Thackery, Larry Schardt, Rex Stout, Martha Wells and more! Diane Simmons reviews Erik Larson's book on Churchill; there's a poem by Dreama Frisk; and a special list of books to introduce us to Africa from Tinashe Chiura!
Saturday, August 26, 2023
BILLIE OF FISH HOUSE LANE by MSW published in Iran!
The Iran Book News Agency (IBNA) has just announced that "Juvenile fiction book Billie of Fish House Lane by American author Meredith Sue Willis has been published in Persian and is available to Iranian Children."
Friday, August 04, 2023
Meredith Sue Willis
Fall 2023 Teaches
Novel Writing at NYU
ONLINE
WRIT1-CE9357
New York University
School of Professional Studies
10 Wednesdays at 6:30 p.m. - 8:50 p.m.
September 13, 2023 - November 15, 2023.
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Monday, July 17, 2023
Meredith Sue Willis's BOOKS FOR READERS NEWSLETTER #228 now online!
Meredith Sue Willis's BOOKS FOR READERS NEWSLETTER #228 now online at Books for Readers #228 !
Reviews of Books by Edward P. Jones, Denton Loving, Honorée Fanonne Jeffers. Lee Martin, Jesmyn Ward, Michelle Zauner, Valérie Perrin, Philip K. Dick, Burt Kimmelman. Reviewes by Ernie Brill, Joe Chuman, Eddy Pendarvis, Diane Simmons, & Danny Williams. Also special links for writers, things to read online, and more
Tuesday, May 16, 2023
MSW's Books for Readers # 227 Available Now!
New Issue of Books for Readers # 227!
Reviews of Books by Cheryl Denise, Larissa Shmailo, Eddy Pendarvis, Alice McDermott, Kelly Watt, Elmore Leonard, Frances Hodgson Burnett, Suzy McKee Charnas, and more. Also special links for writers, things to read online, etc. etc.
Tuesday, March 28, 2023
New Issue of Meredith Sue Willis's Books for Readers #226
New Issue of Meredith Sue Willis's Books for Readers #226 (https://www.meredithsuewillis.com/bfrarchive225-229.html#issue226) with reviews of books by Jim Minick, Gore Vidal, Valeria Luiselli, Richard Wright, Kage Baker, Suzy McKee Charnas, Victor Depta, Walter Mosley. David Hollinger reviewed by Joe Chuman, and more.
Monday, February 13, 2023
Spring 2023 Novel Writing Class with Meredith Sue Willis
Private Classes with Meredith Sue Willis
New Class with Meredith Sue Willis
Spring 2023!!
Starting March 1st!!
Starting and Sustaining Your Novel Part II
This is a six session Novel Writing class appropriate for beginners and for those who want to restart or continue working on novels. The teacher will critique up to 50 pages per student during the six weeks. The sessions will be 6 Wednesdays from March 1 - April 5, 6:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. The cost is $360 dollars, payable in advance by check, money order, PayPal or Venmo.
For information about how to sign up and other questions, please look at MSW's online Classes page and/or e-mail msw@meredithsuewillis.com (This is the business e-mail).
Online Writing Classes with Meredith Sue Willis are creative writing classes taught by Meredith Sue Willis through e-mail and the Internet, usually by Zoom. (To get a free Zoom account, go to Zoom). The classes include short lectures, online readings, writing & reading assignments in class and out, oral discussions and peer critiques for live (Zoom) classes, and one-on-one responses to homework from the teacher.
Monday, January 30, 2023
Reviews of Demon Copperhead, Thomas Hardy, Miriam Toews, Kate Chopin, Alberto Moravia, Elizabeth Strout, Carson McCullers, Garry Wills, Valerie Nieman, and Cora Harrison. Troy Hill on Isaac Babel; Belinda Anderson on books for children; Joe Chuman on Eric Alterman; Molly Gilman on Kage Baker; and l more.
Sunday, December 25, 2022
For Writers and Everyone Interested in Good Writing!
2. Your first thought is never your best thought. It's just your first.
3. Most of your ideas are banal. Dig deeper.
4. Go and find things out. Make a fetish of research. Most of the things worth hearing aren't already sitting in your head.
5. Stop bothering people with your early drafts. Bother yourself with your early drafts.
6. Work every day. It's not an amateur's game.