Elizabeth Ames Staudt
…Elizabeth Ames Staudt earned her MFA from the University of Michigan. She lives in Seattle and is at work on her first novel. This photograph adequately represents her feelings about the process….
…Elizabeth Ames Staudt earned her MFA from the University of Michigan. She lives in Seattle and is at work on her first novel. This photograph adequately represents her feelings about the process….
Friend of FWR (and very talented writer) Elizabeth Ames Staudt reflects in the Kenyon Review on writing about children and one’s children becoming writers: Do writers want their babies to be writers? I feel like, in the way-too–many-celebrity-profiles I’ve read, most famous people hope their progeny will not head Hollywood-wards, but are quick to add that they will support them unflaggingly should they ultimately choose that dangerously glittery…
…it won’t measure up to the last? On the Kenyon Review‘s KR Blog, Elizabeth Ames Staudt considers this dilemma: photo by Moriza (flickr cc) An insistence on finding a book that’s impossibly similar to the last will ultimately prove as disappointing as eating a falafel sandwich anywhere in Paris but at L’As du Fallafel, as will an arbitrarily ‘opposite’ selection when you’re still craving fried chickpeas. What’s an appropriate pining period when it…
…of as kernels of real life that provided the spark for that 99%. Elizabeth Ames Staudt’s passionate recommendation of Everything Matters! by Ron Currie, Jr. (Viking) makes me want to pick up a copy: Not since Season One of The Wire has anything fictional caused me to weep so desperately. This novel takes some risks structurally, and it kept going places that, in the hands of a lesser writer, could have been danger zones. But Ron Currie Jr. breaks…
…r coffee with [University of Michigan alum and former classmate] Elizabeth Ames Staudt, who asked, “Is there a reason to withhold that Lydia is dead, other than to create suspense?” She advocated giving that information in the first chapter, to keep the focus on how this happened rather than on whether Lydia was dead or alive. I thought this was brilliant advice and ended up putting it in the first sentence. The novel was going to have to be stron…
…oulay (CB) – and two fiction writers — Michael Shilling (MS) and Elizabeth Ames Staudt (ES). —- SUMMARY: Richard Price’s Lush Life transcends the police procedural / urban crime novel with layers of social commentary and a cast of memorable characters. The author of Clockers and writer for HBO’s The Wire paints New York’s “new” Lower East Side in shades both gentrified and gritty; here is a maelstrom of cops, losers, and dreamers–all going for the…
…t. Savor, and enjoy. Also on FWR… Read more about Five Chapters and other serial fiction and why slow might be good for you Check out Elizabeth Ames Staudt’s review of Kyle’s debut novel The God of Animals…
…ure books for writers and their kids? Share in the comments! Further Reading: Would you give an eBook to your child? Do writers want their kids to be writers? Elizabeth Ames Staudt reflects. Can’t buy books? Rent them for your kid with BookPig. Don’t let this happen to your child…
