by Lise Funderburg | Aug 20, 2025 | Blog Post, Uncategorized
Coming October 2025 Our new book about the making of Alicia Keys’ Hell’s Kitchen musical gets some hefty love from Publishers Weekly: “Keys and Funderburg transform what might have been a supersized Playbill program into an intimate and in-depth look at the joys and...
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 | 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...
