by Lisa Gruenberg | Feb 2, 2025 | Off the Shelf
Hello again! Here are my latest recommendations, in no particular order: Zero at the Bone, by Christian Wiman City of Refuge, by Tom Piazza Oh William! By Elizabeth Strout Station 11 by Emily St. John Mandel Being Mortal by Atul Gawande The Great Believers by Rebecca...
by Lisa Gruenberg | Feb 2, 2025 | Uncategorized
Six years after the publication of my memoir, I’ve completed a novel. It wasn’t supposed to take this long, but writing has been tucked around the edges of work and everything else life has thrown me over the past few years. I was finally mobilized by a wonderful and...
by Lisa Gruenberg | Oct 3, 2022 | Uncategorized
An update on the deluxe paperback edition of My City of Dreams: We’ve had some challenges. The high-quality paper TidePool Press prefers became scarce in 2021, causing delays. Then there was a fire at the plant that makes the covers. Then the computer systems at the...
by Lisa Gruenberg | Oct 3, 2022 | Off the Shelf
I was going through old files and I found this, an “annotation” on craft from my MFA. It was wonderful to go back fifteen years and see what I was thinking; it was also wonderful to reread this poem by Sheamus Heaney. I never drank in high school or college. All wine...
by Lisa Gruenberg | Mar 2, 2022 | Uncategorized
[Photo Caption: Jewish nurses and nursing students gather around a cart outside a coffee house on the designated Judenstrasse during the Nazi occupation of the Netherlands, ca. 1940-1942 – United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of Clara Renee Karen...
