To do great writing, read great writing. Here’s the great writing I’ve been reading this week. Though it wasn’t my intention, this week’s list of must-reads comes from an all-female cast:
Between Two Worlds – Freelance broadcast journalist Roxana Saberi’s new book chronicles the incidents surrounding her imprisonment in Iran last year on espionage charges. Saberi’s currently on tour to promote the book, which debuted this week.
Atwood in the Twittersphere – Canadian novelist Margaret Atwood recounts her first year on Twitter on NYR Blog, the blog of the New York Times Review of Books. I won’t spoil the fun – and it is a fun read – but here’s a snippet: “…with their aid, I soon had a few thousand people I didn’t know sending me messages like ‘OMG! Is it really you?’ ‘I love it when old ladies blog,’ one early follower remarked.” We love it when old ladies famous women blog too, especially when they’re Margaret Atwood.
Empowered – Susan Orlean travels a lot as a writer for The New Yorker, which is why she found herself hunting down airport electrical outlets to charge up various computers and smartphones before hopping on a plane, and then realized everyone around her was after the same thing. Orleans is one of those writers you really want to hate – good novels to her credit, a witty Twitterer with a massive following, the New Yorker gig and now she gets to blog for them to? – if only she didn’t seem so damned nice.