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 | Aug 10, 2017 | Word Up
That’s right, people. The City of Light. Registration is now open for this 4-part workshop intensive in Paris’s 15e arrondissement, October 11-15. Open to all levels, this is a chance to develop your memoir and personal essay skills through exercises,...
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 | 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...
by Lise Funderburg | Sep 30, 2013 | Word Up
It’s been two decades since Black, White, Other was first published, and tomorrow we mark that 20th anniversary with a new and revised ebook edition. The expanded ebook features a no-false-idols foreword from novelist Mat Johnson (Pym, Incognegro),...
