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When We Make Art, the Ways We Love the World Are Not Wasted

When We Make Art, the Ways We Love the World Are Not Wasted

There is a true intimacy that can occur between a person who writes and a person who reads, a kind of mind meld, when the writer has done a good enough job to enable the reader to dream a version of the dream the writer has created in her own mind and put on the page.

Janet BentonJanuary 21, 2020Comment

What Makes a Story "Big" or "Small"?

What Makes a Story "Big" or "Small"?

Janet BentonJuly 16, 2018Comment

What's a Small Story?

What's a Small Story?

Janet BentonJune 9, 2018Comment

Retreats Make Book-Writing Possible

Retreats Make Book-Writing Possible

Janet BentonMay 2, 2018Comment

In Praise of Women's History

In Praise of Women's History

Janet BentonMarch 20, 2018Comment

The Voices and Stories in Our Heads

The Voices and Stories in Our Heads

Janet BentonFebruary 5, 2018Comment

Why do writers write?

Why do writers write?

Janet BentonJuly 26, 2017Comment

What are the stories only you can tell?

What are the stories only you can tell?

Janet BentonMay 29, 2017Comment

Motherhood Around the World

Janet BentonMay 22, 2017 Comments

What Makes Readers Open Their Minds and Bodies to a Story?

What Makes Readers Open Their Minds and Bodies to a Story?

Janet BentonMay 18, 2017Comment

"A Tale of Motherhood Set on the Brink of Modernity"

Janet BentonMay 16, 2017Comment

Mothers from the Past: PW Talks with Janet Benton

Janet BentonApril 25, 2017Comment

A Hebrew Edition of Lilli de Jong

Janet BentonDecember 4, 2016Comment

Here is the theater I had in mind for a scene late in the book.

Here is the theater I had in mind for a scene late in the book.

Janet BentonAugust 29, 2016

Someone gets to pretend to be Lilli de Jong.

Someone gets to pretend to be Lilli de Jong.

Who will pretend to be Lilli de Jong, writing in her diary, for the audio book?

Janet BentonAugust 29, 2016