Oh, what a day this is! This gorgeous interview with Ruby Dutcher JUST posted on Modern Loss, the most exquisite site for great writing about grief. I’m so grateful to Rebecca Soffer and Gabrielle Birkner and Ruby for their tireless devotion to Modern Loss. Apologies for the ME ME ME posts today. And this is not about me, actually. This is about the importance of grieving, fully, when you lose your spouse at the age of thirty, the subject of our novel. May it help others who grieve.
Author: Linda
Novelist, freelance writer and composer in LA.
Importance of Reading to a Writer
A great piece about the importance of reading to a writer. I agree 100%. Now that I’m writing my next book I’m reading constantly and what I read changes how I write. Yesterday, I read “The Rules of Inheritance” by Claire Bidwell Smith, a must read for her way with words, honesty, wisdom and structure. Her book inspired me to dig deeper. Thank you, Claire. And thank you for this, Jill Swenson.
Check it out here.
Amy Ferris
This woman. Amy Ferris: author of “Dancing at the Shame Prom,” “Marrying George Clooney,” “Shades of Blue,” etc. Wonderfully brave, life-changing books by a writer extraordinaire, a brilliant and fiercely kind writing teacher. And a crackup. Amy Ferris is a woman who lifts up other women and shines her bright, bright light on them. How lucky was I to take a writing workshop with her, where she asked if I had copies of my book with me. “No,” I said. “Get them,” she insisted. “Ask your husband to bring them over. Do it!” And so I did and he did and she made sure everyone at the workshop knew this was my book. How lucky am I learn about the generosity of this woman, Amy Ferris, and to have her shine her bright, bright light on my novel? Damn lucky. And I’m going to keep paying that forward. Thank you, wonderful and amazing Amy. Oh, how I love you.
Westport Library, Nanuet Library, & Childhood Friends
It’s been an amazing ‘old home week’ on the east coast. In Westport, I’m staying at the beautiful home of my childhood friend, Lucy, which whom I share so much history and who spearheaded the event at The Westport Library. And who should happen to walk into the Library as I was talking? My best friend from P.S. 87, Cynthia, who lives nearby. Here we are at age 7, in my kitchen and last night, in Lucy’s living room, after a great time together.
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TBT
#TBT. This man was a creative legend. Totally stoked to have him in my family. @tiborgergely #littlegoldenbooks #scuffy #tootle#littleredcaboose #thefireenginebook #childrensbooks #books
Modern Loss
Modern Loss does it again. A beautiful piece, by a 21-year-old on the first Mothers Day after her mother died.
To read the article, go here.
My blue-eyed boy
My blue-eyed boy is at it again. This time he’s creating lamps of iron and giant crystals lit from within. I can’t believe the flow of his creativity. And I can’t wait to see him and his lamps in the design show in Soho. Go, boy, go!!!
My Mother’s Art- The 6 Burning Wooden Synagogues
At the end of her life, my mother, Austrian emigre artist Greta Schreyer (1917-2005), painted a series of 6 burning wooden synagogues. These synagogues burned on Kristallnacht, six months after my mother said goodbye to her parents at a train station in Vienna, never to see them again.
Yesterday morning the LA Museum of the Holocaust came to see them, along with some of the other works of art I inherited when my mother died. Fingers crossed that these paintings find the right home!
Hollye Dexter’s Barnes and Noble Event
Over this past weekend I went to the most amazing book launch at Barnes and Noble – The Grove – of Hollye Dexter’s phenomenal book, FIRE SEASON.
It is a must-read, searing account of the roller coaster ride that began for Hollye and Troy Dexter on the night they jumped out of a second story window when their house was engulfed in flames. Her story – from ruin to redemption – ends with hope.
On Saturday, Hollye read a riveting and heartfelt passage, held up a charred childhood diary dug out of the rubble, presented an expert from the Red Cross who told us how to keep safe in emergencies and was joined by husband Troy Dexter on guitar and singers Gloria Loring and Stephen Bishop. What a family. What a community. What a book launch. Magic!!!
More Events!
Don’t miss two very special events with the talented Linda Schreyer at the Westport Library and Nanuet Library!
Linda Schreyer, co-author with Jo-Ann Lautman of Tears and Tequila, discusses this story of love, loss, friendship, courage and, most of all, renewal. It tells of the healing that happens when you become part of a community in which everybody is missing someone. This novel about love, loss and renewal will make you laugh, cry and invest in the lives portrayed.
“With compassion and a light hand which only true understanding can provide, the authors impart important life lessons on how to cope with grief and find a new path to happiness.”—Edie Lutnick Co-Founder and President, The Cantor Fitzgerald Relief Fund
Westport Library
Event Details:
When: Wednesday, May 13, 2015 7:00 PM – 8:00 PM
Where:McManus Room- Westport Library, 20 Jesup Road, Westport, CT 06880
Contact Info: 203.291.4800
Nanuet Library
Event Details:
When: Thursday, May 14, 2015, 6:30-8:45 PM
Where: The Nanuet Library, 149 Church Street, Nanuet, NY 10954
Contact Info: 845-623-4821
Linda Schreyer 