Wow. The end of Chapter II is certainly one of the hardest “gut punches” I’ve gotten from a podcast in a long while. This is probably because in most podcasts I listen to, I already know “the plot.” I have…
Letter to an Agent – Sandy Jimenez
For context: The “Letter to an Agent” pasted below is/will be for for Simon Lipskar of Writers House. This is an agent (and agency) that I have some connection with as a contract illustrator. They represent authors who do Novels,…
Anything for Selena, Episode 1, Episode 2 – Reader Response from Sandy Jimenez
After listening to more, (nearly all) of the podcast episodes in this series (and re-listening over the past couple of months,) I have to concede that I had judged much of its tone unfairly. I had dismissed these podcasts entirely…
Preface for a Graphic Novel – Sandy Jimenez
Preface for a graphic novel working title “URBAN SCRIMMAGE” (258 Words… I had a longer draft but I found it was super repetitive.) ### This is a comic book, that some will call a graphic novel about the Bronx in…
Ethics Assorted Readings for Oct. 12 Class – Reader Response from Sandy Jimenez
(ON) The Ethics of Memoir Writing from NPR’s Talk of the Nation from January 12, 2006 The subject being James Frey’s A Million Little Pieces, I’m beginning to feel like that book is the “Watergate” of biography and memoir,…
The Site of Memory – Reader Response from Sandy Jimenez
“The exercise is also critical for any person who is black, or who belongs to any marginalized category, for, historically, we were seldom invited to participate in the discourse even when we were its topic.” – Toni Morrison p 191…
The World According to Fannie Davis – Reader Response from Sandy Jimenez
I’ve rewritten this a few times and my response to this is still a big hot steaming run-on mess…here goes. This felt more to me like a biography of Fannie Davis told in parallel with the autobiography of Bridgett Davis…
Footnotes Exercise – Sandy Jimenez
Entire generations emerged from the Caribbean in the 1950s, 1960s and 70s, ready to write some new chapter in the making of America. Many were lured to New York City by the promise of factory jobs (that were not-quite-there on…
Talking About Ourselves – Reader Response from Sandy Jimenez
Eakins offers a lot of science, philosophy, and theory in support of the idea that persons fashion the stories of themselves, and in turn, how personal self-narrative and story can make a person, which I found fascinating, but his listing…
Eve’s Hollywood – Reader Response from Sandy Jimenez
I am puzzled and very intrigued by this memoir. After reading it, I had trouble sorting out exactly how I felt about what I had read and been “told” by Babitz in her memoir, and yet the more I think…
