by Lise Funderburg | Sep 21, 2022 | Uncategorized
Here’s a great conversation I had with Rachel Ann Brickner just before the Creative Nonfiction Foundation’s 2016 Writers’ Conference. We talked about when to keep going…and when to stop. To read the full story, click here.
by Lise Funderburg | Oct 25, 2021 | Uncategorized
Take a look at this segment from the 10/24/21 CBS Sunday Morning show, where producer Robbyn McFadden and correspondent Michelle Miller use the release of the new film to open up a discussion of race, perception, and privilege. Click here. ...
by Lise Funderburg | May 10, 2019 | Uncategorized
Apple, Tree: Writers on Their Parents comes out September 1 from University of Nebraska Press. For this collection of all-original work, I commissioned 25 writers to explore a trait they’ve inherited from a parent, to reflect on how it affects the lives they lead...
by Lise Funderburg | Mar 22, 2016 | Anthologies, Essays, Lay of the land, Uncategorized, Word Up
I haven’t looked at this essay in years, but after getting word today that it’s going to be recycled in an Oprahworld anthology (O’S LITTLE BOOK OF STARTING OVER, ETA October 2016), I thought I’d take a look. Still one of my favs. Looking Out for #2...
by Lise Funderburg | Nov 4, 2015 | Lay of the land, Uncategorized, Word Up
Today I got called a “filthy jew.” This is not the first time it has happened, and in keeping with past instances, it appeared on the Internet and from an unnamed source: this one used the moniker “moremane.” In fact, today’s slander was a two-fer, in which I was...
by Lise Funderburg | Jun 13, 2015 | Uncategorized, Word Up
When I tried to look black, it was the late 1970s and I was in England for a semester abroad. I had hair down to the middle of my back, the blonde of my birth long since turned a medium brown but the hair itself still fine and mostly straight, with more of a bend than...
