Rochelle Jewel Shapiro

Friday, April 29, 2011

Welcome to everyone who is considering taking my class, Emotions into Art

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Emotions are the wind in the sails for any prose or poetry. It's the one element that you can't be without or your writing becomes a...

How Rachel Dewoskin found the theme for her compelling novel, BIG GIRL SMALL (Farrar, Straus, Giroux, May, 2011)

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Interview with Rachel Dewoskin by Rochelle Jewel Shapiro Rachel Dewoskin’s brilliant novel about Judy Lohden, a sixteen-year-old with a huge...
Sunday, April 24, 2011

Happy Passover and Easter

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I'm in the white shirt, my husband next to me. The wonderment of holidays is that you make time to be together. Enjoy yourselves!
Wednesday, April 20, 2011

Check out my online summer writing course!

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https://www.uclaextension.edu/r/Course.aspx?reg=W4935
Wednesday, April 13, 2011

How Angela Davis-Gardner got her idea for Butterfly's Child

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Angela Davis-Gardner went to see Puccini's Madame Butterfly with a friend. After Madame's Butterfly's suicide because Pinkerton...
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Sunday, April 10, 2011

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What in the world was Paul Giammatti doing with such a gorgeous woman in Barney's Version? Really, there is something terribly wrong wit...
Monday, April 4, 2011

A heart-stopping poem when you think of the tsunami and all other disasters

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This is by Tenesse Williams. Notice how you don't have to be explicit. YOu don't have to name the tragedy. This could be in light of...
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Like Miriam Kaminsky, the heroine in my novel, MIRIAM THE MEDIUM, (Simon & Schuster, May, 2004, I'm a professional phone psychic who lives in Great Neck. I've also been published in NEWSWEEK, My Turn, "Out of the Candlelight into the Spotlight," February 12, 2004, NEW YORK TIMES (LIVES) "The Medium Has A Message," 3/28/99 and in many anthologies such as FATHER, Pocket Books, 2000, "The Wild Russian," (short story) and essays in It's A Boy, Seal Press, 2005. and literary magazines. Articles have been written about me REDBOOK MAGAZINE, "My Best Friend is a Psychic," by Caroline Leavitt and in the Long Island section of NEW YORK TIMES by Marcelle Fischler, 2/13/2005. I will be teaching personal essay at UCLA online this summer. My novel, MIRIAM THE MEDIUM, was nominated for the Harold Ribelow award and was sold in Holland. I'm hard at work on my second novel, a sequel to Miriam the Medium
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