Friends -- I'm sharing a little piece that I just posted on medium. Like you, I'm very distraught about the war between Israel and Hamas, and the incredible amount of killing that this conflict has incurred. What can I do, as a writer/professor here in the US? What difference can I make? Well, there is … Continue reading Reading matters
Category: books
Cover Reveal for the new book departing November 1st!
My magically infused mystery novella about passengers on a vintage train heading to Quebec appears in less than a month! Here's the cover. Thank you Shannon Phillips of Picture Show Press:
Got a lot of stuff? Me too.
Check out my latest meditation on why I can't clean out enough on medium: https://medium.com/@stephaniebarbhammer/why-i-dont-clear-the-space-c4872203d7c3 and here's a picture of me trying:
At home in books
Friends -- Just now I lit the Yahrzeit candle for my mother, Barbé Hammer, who died 23 years ago. Right before that, though, I read Neil Aitken's extraordinary essay on personal libraries as sites of resistance.* The book collection, he observes, can become a home for people who are transnational and interlingual and more. The … Continue reading At home in books
Stephanie Barbé Hammer Writing (Un) Real 