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Pamela Herron Wong
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Writer (YA, fiction, nonfiction, ecocriticism), gardener, and chicken raiser in San Francisco Bay Area.
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@k-e-s.bsky.social Hi Kathy! It’s Pam.
January 17, 2025 at 6:30 PM
@allouttafucks.bsky.social hi, Squeaks! This is Pam Pghwriting.bsky.social
January 14, 2025 at 3:57 AM
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womenofletters.org
“I write biography that challenges the way that a scene is set in a biography — it’s more a lyric scene, a sensory-rich scene, rather than fact, fact, fact.”

Read or listen to our full interview with Iris Jamahl Dunkle here:
womenofletters.org Women of Letters @womenofletters.org · Sep 18
Just released: launching both our second season *and* our podcast (!) 👩‍🔬, it’s the Women of Letters interview with Iris Jamahl Dunkle.

womenofletters.substack.com/p/iris-jamah...
A screenshot from our interview with Iris Jamahl Dunkle that reads: “All of us, I think, have had the experience of seeing someone else take credit for something we’ve done. But how many of us can say that our work was used by another person to earn a Nobel Prize? The American novelist, poet, and editor Sanora Babb can, as Iris so brilliantly illuminates in her forthcoming biography, Riding Like the Wind. In Babb’s case, it was John Steinbeck who took credit for her work when — despite lacking her permission — he used her notes to write The Grapes of Wrath. His novel went on to win not only a National Book Award but also a Pulitzer Prize, and in addition to being turned into an Academy Award-winning film it would also eventually play a major role in Steinbeck’s being awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature. Meanwhile, the novel that Babb had written was shelved, and it would not appear in print for more than 60 years. As Iris’s publisher explains..."
October 7, 2024 at 3:02 PM
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mostlymammoths.bsky.social
Steinbeck mined her research for "The Grapes of Wrath." [& didn't even acknowledge her.] Then her own Dust Bowl novel was squashed - Iris Jamahl Dunkle

www.salon.com/2024/10/15/s...
Steinbeck plundered her work for "The Grapes of Wrath"
Migrant camp worker Sanora Babb wrote what could have been the era's definitive book. Instead she became a footnote
www.salon.com
October 15, 2024 at 10:57 PM
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lynnetirrell.bsky.social
This book is terrific. (I say so on the back cover!) GET THIS BOOK and take some time with it. You'll have a clearer understanding of how language shapes our lives. a.co/d/5jIOAuW
The Politics of Language: Beaver, David, Stanley, Jason: 9780691181981: Amazon.com: Books
The Politics of Language [Beaver, David, Stanley, Jason] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. The Politics of Language
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November 7, 2023 at 4:15 PM
Good advice. Just did this to protect myself from trolls.
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November 14, 2024 at 5:47 PM
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debbieohi.com
I've updated shortlink debbieohi.link/illustrators... to point to this new thread.

Feel free to scoop this graphic & post elsewhere on Bluesky or other platforms.

With more using generative AI for art, HUMAN illustrators are facing more challenges these days. Pls help boost #KidLit artists!
Text reads: "Agents! Looking for children's book illustrators seeking representation? Browse this thread on Bluesky!" Larger handwritten text reads: "KidLit Illustrators Seeking Representation" above an illustrated artist figure beside a QR code.
November 12, 2024 at 9:52 PM
#commonsense
November 10, 2024 at 8:54 PM