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Posted by rhoff1949 on September 6, 2014 in Featured

Last month’s panel on Martha’s Vineyard with Gail Sheehy and Katie Hafner, moderated by Alexandra Styron. Click photo for video of the evening. Enjoy!

Posted by rhoff1949 on August 6, 2014 in Featured

Very happy to announce that, starting next week, my poem Rising will be on buses and trains throughout Boston, sponsored by MassPoetry. MassPoetry-T-PoemsAUG14-04-RISING-FINAL

New England Book Award

Posted by rhoff1949 on July 1, 2014 in Featured

I’m happy to announce that Love & Fury has been shortlisted for the New England Book Award in Nonfiction. The award is given by the New England Independent Booksellers Association. Other finalists in Nonfiction are A Fighting Chance by Elizabeth Warren, Can’t We Talk About Something More Pleasant? by Roz Chast, Mud Season by Ellen […]

http://www.biographile.com/rebreaking-the-bone-of-ones-life-story-richard-hoffman-on-love-fury/32924/?Ref=insyn_corp_bio-beacon

Posted by rhoff1949 on June 15, 2014 in Featured

This is a brief essay I wrote for “Biographile,” the Random House blog for those who love life stories: autobiography, biography, memoir.

An essay written for the Mass Poetry Festival blog

Posted by rhoff1949 on June 12, 2014 in Featured

An essay written for the Mass Poetry Festival blog About writing in more than one genre…

http://www.beaconbroadside.com/broadside/2014/06/love-and-fury.html

Posted by rhoff1949 on June 4, 2014 in Featured

Here is a short video excerpt from Love & Fury, on the Beacon Press blog: http://www.beaconbroadside.com/broadside/2014/06/love-and-fury.html

ESSAY DAILY

Posted by rhoff1949 on May 5, 2014 in Featured

If you are an essayist, a student of the essay, a reader who loves the form, Ander Monson’s ESSAY DAILY is for you!

Posted by rhoff1949 on May 4, 2014 in Events, Featured

Readings from Love & Fury: 6/3/2014: HARVARD BOOK STORE, 1256 Massachusetts Ave., Cambridge, MA, 7pm 6/4/2014: THE ODYSSEY BOOK SHOP, 9 College St., South Hadley Falls, MA, 7pm 6/10/2014: PORTER SQUARE BOOKS, 25 White St., Cambridge, MA, 7pm 6/12/2014: BARNES & NOBLE #1979, 2289 Broadway, NYC, 7pm (“in conversation” w/ Philip Lopate) 6/16/2014: THE HALF KING, 505 West 23rd Street, NYC, 7pm […]

Posted by rhoff1949 on March 4, 2014 in Featured

Very pleased to be the most recent in a long line of distinguished guest bloggers on Michael Steinberg’s Blog: The Art and Craft of Creative Nonfiction.Mike’s blog is a polyvocal treasury of good advice on craft and strategy for essayists and memoirists. As the editor of the literary journal Fourth Genre, and co-editor, with Robert […]

Posted by rhoff1949 on February 21, 2014 in Featured

From the Black Earth Institute, this remarkable treasury of writings and art assessing Civil Rights in America, edited by writer, activist, and independent scholar Richard Cambridge. From the assassination of Medgar Evers and the Birmingham Church bombing that killed four children in 1963 to the re-election of the first Black president, this issue contains challenging, […]

RICHARD HOFFMAN

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