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jessica handler
Atlanta, Georgia, United States
My first book, "Invisible Sisters: A Memoir" (Public Affairs Books) is in bookstores now! I would love to visit your bookclub, either in person (in the South) or through the magic of electronics. My writing has received a "Special Mention" for a 2008 Pushcart Prize. I was awarded a merit scholarship to the Inaugural "Writers in Paradise" conference, an honorable mention for the Penelope Niven Creative Nonfiction Award, and enjoyed a Fellowship at the Hambidge Center for Creative Arts in Rabun Gap, Georgia, and have been honored with the 2009 Peter Taylor Nonfiction Fellowship at the Kenyon Review Writers Workshop. Locally, I teach workshops in creative writing, memoir, and feature journalism, and am a member of the faculty of an art college, where I teach screenwriting, media history, and other courses of that stripe. I hold an MFA in Creative Writing from Queens University of Charlotte (N.C.) and a B.S. in Communication from Emerson College, in Boston. I used to work in television. I did not push the broom behind the elephant. Usually, I served as mahout - I drove the (allegorical) elephant. If he was SAG or AFTRA. Rock stars do not scare me.
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Thursday, October 22, 2009

Reading on the Train


My secret private moment of self-time lately?

Reading on the MARTA train. Yeah, I know people in cities with real public transit do it all the time - I do it when I'm in cities with real public transit. Here, mostly, I drive.

But sometimes I'm only going from point A to point B, which means I can take MARTA. Which means I get about 40 minutes to read, x 2. So that's like more than an hour.

Right now? "Motherless Brooklyn." Laughing out loud on the subway. I feel better already.
Posted by jessica handler at 8:07 PM

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