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Summer Reading
August is for Reading
by, Jill Swenson
July 10, 2018

From now through August, Swenson Book Development LLC offers a special package for editorial feedback on the first ten pages of your manuscript. I want to read what you’ve been writing. One of the most frequent requests I get from writers is a simple answer to the general question: is this any good? In order to answer any questions about a manuscript, you need to… [Read More]

Filed Under: 10 pages, developmental edit, Good Prose, Summer Reading
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Summer Reading List
by, Jill Swenson
June 8, 2013

Good writers read good writing. While you are writing your work-in-progress, keep reading great books. Here’s our recommendations for a super summer reading list. Non-Fiction Behind the Beautiful Forevers by Katherine Boo Cooked: A Natural History of Transformation by Michael Pollan Death in the Baltic: WWII Sinking of the Wilhelm Gustloff by Cathryn Prince Dirty Wars by Jeremy Scahill Good Prose: The Art of Non-Fiction… [Read More]

Filed Under: Behind the Beautiful Forevers, Cooked, Dirty Wars by Jeremy Scahill, Katherine Boo, Mary Roach, Michael Pollan, Summer Reading
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The Summer Without Men
by, Danielle Sherwood
July 12, 2011

Don’t let the jacket copy and title fool you. No chick lit fodder beckons in Siri Hustvedt’s newest fiction: The Summer Without Men (Picador, April 26, 2011). The antics of Mia Fredrickson’s young and turbulent neighbors, the adolescent girls in her poetry workshop, and her mother’s senior circle composed of the wise and nurturing “Five Swans” provides the context for deep intellectual passages and keeps… [Read More]

Filed Under: book review, fiction, history and memory, Jane Austen, love and marriage, poets, question of difference, Siri Hustvedt, Summer Reading, The Summer Without Men
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