Interviews
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Interviews
Essays and Articles
"The Suffering of Others Is Abstract, even in a Pandemic." Audere Magazine, March 24, 2021
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"The Smothers Brothers Paved the Way. It Led Them Off a Cliff." Audere Magazine, June 20, 2021
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"I Might Need This Someday." Audere Magazine, July 17, 2020
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"Apropos of Woody Allen." Audere Magazine, April 19, 2020
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“Author Donna Levin’s New Novel Encourages Advocacy & Empathy for Kids on the Autism Spectrum"
Fiction as advocacy for social change has a long and impressive history.
GirlTalkHQ, June 21, 2017
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“7 Things To Say When a Friend’s Child is Diagnosed with Autism”
Kveller.com, May 24, 2017
Start with “Your son is the same kid he was last week.”
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“The Thinking Person’s Guide to Autism” Has Some Interesting Things To Say About One Way Home
June 5, 2017
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“If I’m Neurotypical, Can I Write About the Neuro-Diverse?”
Women Writers, Women’s Books, May 1, 2018
A writer needs to be able to imagine other lives.
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A Mom, a Plane, and Passengers Who Don't Give a Sh*t, Audere Magazine, January 16, 2020
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Eine Frau in Berlin, Audere Magazine, July 20, 2019
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The Vocabulary of the Future, Audere Magazine, November 17, 2019
Rest Well, Mr. Sondheim
Audere Magazine, December 13, 2021
“Why Your Next Favorite Fictional Protagonist May Be on the Autism Spectrum”
Smithsonian Magazine, May 24, 2017
Was Mr. Darcy on the autism spectrum?
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Brigadoon has some lovely music. Don't think too hard about the premise. Audere Magazine, January 9, 2021
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4 Essential Steps for Making Your Protagonist Real, Even When They’re Nothing Like You
WritersDigest.com, November 19, 2018
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“The Hard Art of Balancing Writing with Raising an Autistic Child”
LitHub, October 18, 2018
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“The Professor of Mean”
Women Writers, Women’s Books, November 4, 2018
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“8 Things I’d Like My Readers to Know About Me”
Female First, October 16, 2018
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“My Secret Is My Community of Female Writers”
GirlTalkHQ, October 18, 2018
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“No, Working from Home Isn’t the Perfect Working Mom Hack–But It’s Still Pretty Sweet”
Working Mother Magazine, October 8, 2018
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The Madwoman in the Attic, C'est Moi
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Social Media
"A writer is someone for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people." ~Thomas Mann
"I think people become consumed with selling a book when they need to be consumed with writing it." ~Ann Patchett
"The only way to do all the things you'd like to do is to read." ~Tom Clancy
"Nothing is harder than being a true novelist, unless that's all one wants to be, in which case, while being a true novelist is hard, everything else is harder." ~John Gardner
“I think I did pretty well, considering that I started out with a lot of blank pages.” ~Steve Martin
"It's easy, after all, not to be a writer. Many people are not writers, and no harm comes to them." ~Julian Barnes
Writing is the only thing that, when I do it, I don't feel as though I should be doing something else. ~Gloria Steinem
"You can rewrite anything but a blank page." ~Grace Paley
"Let's face it, writing is hell." ~William Styron