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Betsy Lerner

Betsy Lerner
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Betsy Lerner

Betsy Lerner holds an MFA in poetry from Columbia University. She is the recipient of the Thomas Wolfe Poetry Prize and an Academy of American Poets Poetry Prize, and was selected as one of PEN's Emerging Writers in 1987. She is the author of The Forest for the Trees: An Editor's Advice to Writers. She lives in New Haven, Connecticut.

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In memory of Maurice Sendak, let's hear those Wild Things
York Daily Record, May 9, 2012
...Lamott (3) Apple (1) author blurb (1) autograph books (2) banned books (1) Beloit College Mindset List (1) Betsy Lerner (1) Bible (1) biblical (1) Bin Laden (1) blog award (1) blog series (2) blog tour (1) blogger award (1) ...
Wrapped Snugly In My World Of Words
Hartford Courant, April 3, 2012
...could get my own back for my failure in everyday life." This Orwell passage was quoted by Betsy Lerner in her work "The Forest for the Trees," which made me think about my need to tell stories. Lerner writes, "The child who makes sense of his world...
Forget diet, exercise; take some books instead
Modesto Bee, March 2, 2012
...s tale, Machiavelli's classic is a do-it-yourself handbook on power.9. Best books on writing? Ones by Betsy Lerner, Jay Heinrichs, Stephen King and Atwood (yes, again).10. Books that remind you why it's worth it to get up the next day, if only to find out...
The answer, my friend, is in a book
Keene Sentinel, February 27, 2012
...s tale, Machiavelli’s classic is a do-it-yourself handbook on power. 9. Best books on writing? Ones by Betsy Lerner, Jay Heinrichs, Stephen King, Atwood (yes, again). 10. Books that remind you why it’s worth it to get up the next day, if only to find...
Feeling blue? Take two books, call in the a.m.
Boulder Daily Camera, February 26, 2012
...s tale, Machiavelli's classic is a do-it-yourself handbook on power. 9. Best books on writing? Ones by Betsy Lerner, Jay Heinrichs, Stephen King, Atwood (yes, again). 10. Books that remind you why it's worth it to get up the next day, if only to find out...
Gina Barreca: Feeling blue? Take two books, call an a.m.
Rock Hill Herald, February 24, 2012
...s tale, Machiavelli's classic is a do-it-yourself handbook on power. 9. Best books on writing? Ones by Betsy Lerner, Jay Heinrichs, Stephen King, Atwood (yes, again). 10. Books that remind you why it's worth it to get up the next day, if only to find out...
Food and Loathing
Enotalone.com, July 19, 2011
...With warmth, wit, and not a trace of self-pity" (Entertainment Weekly), Betsy Lerner details her twenty-year struggle with depression and compulsive eating in , a book that dares to expose the insidious nature of women's secret life with food....
Forget diet, exercise; take some books instead
Modesto Bee, March 2, 2012
...s tale, Machiavelli's classic is a do-it-yourself handbook on power.9. Best books on writing? Ones by Betsy Lerner, Jay Heinrichs, Stephen King and Atwood (yes, again).10. Books that remind you why it's worth it to get up the next day, if only to find out...
The answer, my friend, is in a book
Keene Sentinel, February 27, 2012
...s tale, Machiavelli’s classic is a do-it-yourself handbook on power. 9. Best books on writing? Ones by Betsy Lerner, Jay Heinrichs, Stephen King, Atwood (yes, again). 10. Books that remind you why it’s worth it to get up the next day, if only to find...
Feeling blue? Take two books, call in the a.m.
Boulder Daily Camera, February 26, 2012
...s tale, Machiavelli's classic is a do-it-yourself handbook on power. 9. Best books on writing? Ones by Betsy Lerner, Jay Heinrichs, Stephen King, Atwood (yes, again). 10. Books that remind you why it's worth it to get up the next day, if only to find out...
Gina Barreca: Feeling blue? Take two books, call an a.m.
Rock Hill Herald, February 24, 2012
...s tale, Machiavelli's classic is a do-it-yourself handbook on power. 9. Best books on writing? Ones by Betsy Lerner, Jay Heinrichs, Stephen King, Atwood (yes, again). 10. Books that remind you why it's worth it to get up the next day, if only to find out...
Gina Barreca: Feeling blue? Take two books, call an a.m.
South Carolina Enquirer-Herald, February 24, 2012
...s tale, Machiavelli's classic is a do-it-yourself handbook on power. 9. Best books on writing? Ones by Betsy Lerner, Jay Heinrichs, Stephen King, Atwood (yes, again). 10. Books that remind you why it's worth it to get up the next day, if only to find out...
Gina Barreca: Feeling blue? Take two books, call an a.m.
Island Packet, February 24, 2012
...s tale, Machiavelli's classic is a do-it-yourself handbook on power. 9. Best books on writing? Ones by Betsy Lerner, Jay Heinrichs, Stephen King, Atwood (yes, again). 10. Books that remind you why it's worth it to get up the next day, if only to find out...
Gina Barreca: Feeling blue? Take two books, call an a.m.
Fresno Bee, February 24, 2012
...s tale, Machiavelli's classic is a do-it-yourself handbook on power. 9. Best books on writing? Ones by Betsy Lerner, Jay Heinrichs, Stephen King, Atwood (yes, again). 10. Books that remind you why it's worth it to get up the next day, if only to find out...