Priscilla Long – författare

How are our lives shaped by the difficult choices of our parents and even grandparents? How will our own choices direct the future for our children? Following generations of one family across nearly a century, each of Andrea Lewis's intertwined, engaging short stories evokes an intense sense of place and time, from New Orleans in 1895 to Grand Isle, Louisiana, during the hurricane of 1901 and on to London during the Olympic Games of 1948. The people in these ten vivid tales face tragedy and real-world catastrophic events—war, hurricanes, the Great Depression, racial tension—in their pursuit of love, family, and belonging. Each character struggles to discover and preserve his or her identity and dreams while grappling with the expectations of family and culture and trying to cope with loss. Some succeed, some compromise, and some fail, but all have a traceable impact on a story to come.

Long’s work begs to be read aloud in order to savor the rich language and rhythm she instills in each poem. She explores the beauty of specific bridges while employing them as a metaphor for crossings to death (a sister’s suicide), eros, and art. Part elegy, the book also explores living, remembering, and celebrating.

Designed to mentor writers at all levels, from beginning to quite advanced, The Writer's Portable Mentor offers a wealth of insight and crafting models from the author's twenty-plus years of teaching and creative thought. The book provides tools for structuring a book, story, or essay. It trains writers in observation and in developing a poet's ear for sound in prose. It scrutinizes the sentence strategies of the masters and offers advice on how to publish. This second edition is updated to account for changes in the publishing industry and provides hundreds of new craft models to inspire, guide, and develop every writer's work.

Master of the essay form and master of the sentence, Priscilla Long combines memoir and science to explore the spaces we live in, the spaces we go to in our imagination, and the colors that surround us. In On Spaces and Colors, Priscilla Long reflects on the spaces we inhabit and the colors that surround us. The essays occur in threes: space (such as a garden, an alley, a living room); color (does pink really stink?); and gallery (a type of space we enter via the imagination—a painting, a book, a map, the past—whether accessed through personal memory or written history). The essays embrace both memoir and science and explore aspects of environment, architecture, and interior design. At the core of Long’s approach is the notion that the way we arrange our spaces strongly affects our well-being—a particular space can contribute to healing or to harm. No matter where you live or what your lifestyle, these essays will lead you into your own rich thoughts and reflections . . . and you may find yourself rearranging the furniture in your living room.

The third edition of a comprehensive writing guide that has been a game changer for thousands of writers. From writing the virtuoso sentence to structuring your story, essay, or book, The Writer’s Portable Mentor offers deeply craft-oriented guidance to writers at all levels, from beginner to advanced. Readers of this new edition will find thoroughly revised chapters on structure and two new structures, the enumeration and the abecedarian; new model sentences and model paragraphs throughout the book; and the final section, “Getting Your Work Into the World,” complete rewritten and updated to account for the continuing changes in the publishing and blogging world. Priscilla Long trains the prose writer to write with a poet’s ear and to observe with a painter’s eye and offers extensive strategies for remaining happily productive and for navigating the current publishing industry to get the work out into the world. The Writer’s Portable Mentor remains a must for every writer’s bookshelf!