PAULA WHYMAN
Read "Sand People," in Gravity Dancers edited by Richard Peabody, founder & editor of Gargoyle Magazine, Paycock Press.
Selected Works
Fiction
A young woman struggles with an unplanned pregnancy.
Sexual and racial tensions in a classroom threaten to explode as a young teen faces choices that will haunt her in adulthood. ORDER HERE
Two American teens go on their first European trip and get into trouble.
A young girl in Thailand is sold into prostitution by her mother.
A woman is haunted by events from the past that threaten to disturb her domestic life.
A man battles neighbors to build his dream house, while his son resists the pull of the family heritage.
A psychologist confuses fantasy and reality as she travels alone for the first time after her divorce.
Humor
Dining out with dietary issues, and Twizzlers. From the Washington Post.
KITCHEN SINK LINKS
Washington Independent Review of Books
Washington's nonprofit online book review
Semi-Charmed Life: Surviving at the Center of the Universe
first-person column on absurdities of suburban life
Bethesda World News
Bethesda's own parody newspaper
When the Menu Is a Minefield
Washington Post Food section, on dining out with dietary issues
Ode to the Hand Dryers of La Guardia
guest post for Susan Coll's blog
Rumpus Mini-Interview #19
I interview visual artist Tim Guthrie about his unusual anti-war project.
Work-in-Progress: A blog by Leslie Pietrzyk
Explores the Creative Process
Alternate Sides: A blog by Susan Coll
Adventures Along the Northeast Corridor
Finding Josephine
Writer Dionne Ford's blog
Poetry in the Arts
Publisher of the poetry journal, Ardent! - and fine books of poetry by invitation.
Curiosity has its own reason for existing.
-Albert Einstein
NOW on CuriousBlog:
NewPages Reviews "You May See a Stranger,"
The Gettysburg Review, Summer 2012 issue
July 4th Then and Now: The Macaroni Salad Days
The Rose Garden: Short Story Online at REDUX
Elmore Leonard's Ten Rules for Writers
My short short, "Another Story," is now out in Gargoyle #57. Check it out.
Check out my Rumpus Interview with Dave Engelhardt, past pro-bono lawyer for Gitmo detainees.
How do you know he's a witch? Rumpus Mini-Interview #31, in which I talk with SM Shrake about his interesting obsession.
Also see Rumpus Mini-Interview #19: In which I chat with artist Tim Guthrie, and he comes clean about an unusual anti-war project.
Read my take on
"The REAL Writing Life"
at
Leslie Pietrzyk's
Work-in-Progress blog
NewPages Reviews "You May See a Stranger,"
The Gettysburg Review, Summer 2012 issue
July 4th Then and Now: The Macaroni Salad Days
The Rose Garden: Short Story Online at REDUX
Elmore Leonard's Ten Rules for Writers
My short short, "Another Story," is now out in Gargoyle #57. Check it out.
Check out my Rumpus Interview with Dave Engelhardt, past pro-bono lawyer for Gitmo detainees.
How do you know he's a witch? Rumpus Mini-Interview #31, in which I talk with SM Shrake about his interesting obsession.
Also see Rumpus Mini-Interview #19: In which I chat with artist Tim Guthrie, and he comes clean about an unusual anti-war project.
Read my take on
"The REAL Writing Life"
at
Leslie Pietrzyk's
Work-in-Progress blog
My column, SEMI-CHARMED LIFE, is still available and archived at Bethesda Magazine's website. The blog focuses on the absurdities of suburban life.
And, in case you can't get enough of suburban absurdity, please visit BETHESDA WORLD NEWS, our own local online parody newspaper. Stories include: Snowflake Paralyzes Metro Area and Bethesda Elementary Discovers First Ungifted Child
Sketch by Reinhard Michl, VCCA, 2009
In the Washington Post:
My essay, Check Please: When the Menu is a Minefield, is online now in the Washington Post Food section, and in the March 31, 2010 print edition.
Thanks to all who stopped in for Free Range, the food section's online chat. In case you missed it, the transcript is now available.
My essay, Check Please: When the Menu is a Minefield, is online now in the Washington Post Food section, and in the March 31, 2010 print edition.
Thanks to all who stopped in for Free Range, the food section's online chat. In case you missed it, the transcript is now available.
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Paula Whyman, Richard Peabody, Maud Casey at Politics & Prose, Washington, DC
On the "Baking for Writers" page: I'm baking bread with master chef Mark Furstenberg in the Washington Post
Mark Your Calendar…
JUST ONE NIGHT
with
STEPHEN ELLIOTT
MEET THE AUTHOR
in his ONLY Washington, DC, reading
“Elliott may be writing under the influence, but it’s the influence of genius.” [Vanity Fair]
Acclaimed author of novel, Happy Baby, will talk and read from his highly praised memoir, THE ADDERALL DIARIES: A Memoir of Moods, Masochism, & Murder
