“There is a long time in me between knowing and telling… ” Grace Paley
PrismWork is for you, dear reader. In the hope that what you experience on these pages inspires you, moves you, and alters the way in which you see the world. It has been lovingly constructed because, to quote poet Christian Bok, “A word (like Love) has a high refractive index.”
Lisen Stromberg
What’s New and Upcoming?
Happy to see MSNBC pick up my work in Palo Alto Patch for an article about teen drinking and the risks to parents.
Pleased with the standing room only crowd at the Branding U panel at the Journalism and Women’s Symposium conference recently. Here is a branding resource developed for the panel.
Completely awed and moved by the response to my column, My Neighbor, Steve Jobs. Reposted on Forbes, Fortune, Huffington Post and elsewhere. At one point, Lisen’s “Blog” was getting 10,000 page views an hour. Incredible.
Thrilled to read my essay, Love Means Never Having to Say ‘Get A Job’, in Newsweek.
Wrote Helping the MFA Cross the Digital Divide for AWP’s on-line magazine, The Job List.
Proud to be selected as a reader for Narrative Magazine.
Continuing to host authors at the Peninsula Parlour. I recently interviewed Carol Edgarian, author of Three Stages of Amazement and Stanford Professor, Richard Banks, author of Is Marriage for White People?. I will be in conversation with Self-publishing wunderkind, Maria Murnane, on January 4th. Come join in the conversation. Click here for more information.
What’s Not So New?
Working as a weekly columnist for Palo Alto Patch. We’ll see if hyper-local journalism truly is the wave of the future. Still a regular contributor to BlogHer. Enjoyed hosting authors Faith Adiele, Cornelia Nixon, Holly Payne, Malena Watrous, Carol Edgarian, and Richard Banks at the Peninsula Parlour this past year. We are working on our lineup for 2012.
A recent essay:
Cry, The Beloved Country: Norway and Innocence Lost
Bestemor and Me
It’s been nearly a month since Anders Behring Breivik wreaked havoc in Oslo and Utoeya island and while the rest of the world has moved on to the next headline, Norway, and those who love it, have just begun to develop a measured response. I mourn the Norway of my childhood, the birthplace my mother…
Other Considerations:
“It is worth remembering that every writer begins with a naively physical notion of what art is. A book for him or her is not an expression or a series of expressions, but literally a volume, a prism with six rectangular sides made of thin sheets of papers which should include a cover, an inside cover, an epigraph in italics, a preface, nine or ten parts with some verses at the beginning, a table of contents, an ex libris with an hourglass and a Latin phrase, a brief list of errata, some blank pages, a colophon and a publication notice: objects that are known to constitute the art of writing.”
Jorge Luis Borges
