On Thursday 6/23 at 1-2pm ET, I’m hosting one of my favorite authors for a frank conversation about writing/life integrity on She Writes Radio from 1-2pm ET. Here’s a description, and how to join in, plus a tweet — thanks for any help the word!
Recalibrating Writing/Life Balance in a Digital World: A Conversation with Dani Shapiro and Deborah Siegel (6/23, 1-2pm ET)
Bestselling author Dani Shapiro and Girl w/Pen’s Deborah Siegel contemplate the precarious balance of being a writer while living this social media-filled life. How do you carve out time when Facebook and email beckon? Does your outer atmosphere reflect your inner writerly needs? Listen for thoughts from two wired authors, both currently between books, on the quest for quiet.
Dani Shapiro is the bestselling author of the memoirs Devotion and Slow Motion, and five novels including Black & White. Her work has appeared in The New Yorker, The Los Angeles Times, and more, and has been widely anthologized. She has taught at Columbia, NYU, The New School and Wesleyan University, and is co-founder of the Sirenland Writers Conference. She is a contributing editor at Travel + Leisure.
Deborah Siegel, PhD, Founding Partner of She Writes, is an expert on gender, politics, and still-evolving feminism. She is the author of Sisterhood, Interrupted: From Radical Women to Grrls Gone Wild, co-editor of the anthology Only Child: Writers on the Singular Joys and Solitary Sorrows of Growing Up Solo, founder of the blog Girl w/Pen, and co-founder of the webjournal The Scholar & Feminist Online. Her work has appeared in venues including The Washington Post, Ms., The Huffington Post. In The Pink and Blue Diaries, Deborah blogs about gender, parenthood, writing, and life.
Listen online at: http://www.blogtalkradio.com/s_w/2011/06/23/recalibrating-writinglife-balance-in-a-digital-world
Hope to “see” some of ya’ll there!
Comments
Valerie — June 23, 2011
The show just ended, and I wanted to let you know that I appreciated all the topics covered by the both of you. I considered calling, but you kept talking about so many interesting ideas that I didn't want to leave the computer to get the phone. I'm purposely a cellphone-less person for the same reasons that Ms. Shapiro uses the Freedom program, so if I wanted to call I needed to miss parts of your talk. I'm afraid the interest-factor of your conversation had greater drawing power than the need to 'phone.
Thank you so much for sharing thoughts that I have always thought were my own little problems: permission, self-consciousness, guilt, and 'writing as a hobby.'
Btw, when the twins get older, they're often no less of a a handful. What one doesn't think of, the other one does.