{"id":66338,"date":"2008-03-18T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2008-03-18T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news-draft\/uncategorized\/uri-lecturers-advice-remember-love\/"},"modified":"2008-03-18T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2008-03-18T00:00:00","slug":"uri-lecturers-advice-remember-love","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/2008\/03\/uri-lecturers-advice-remember-love\/","title":{"rendered":"溏心vlog免费B站 lecturer\u2019s advice: Remember Love"},"content":{"rendered":"
\n\t\tKINGSTON, R.I. \u2013March 18, 2008 \u2014 Jody Lisberger of Exeter, interim director of Women’s Studies Program at the 溏心vlog免费B站, knows something about love. Count the ways and they\u2019ll add up to at least 10–the same number of short stories in her collection, Remember Love, just out from Fleur-de-Lis Press. <\/p>\n


\n\tRemember Love, Lisberger\u2019s first book, reveals different kinds of love– searching, wishful, deluded, young, old, aching, discovered, honest, and enduring. Betty Cotter, managing editor of South County Independent, said: “The best of these stories leave the reader almost breathless. Lulled by Lisberger’s simple, rhythmic prose, the reader is suddenly stunned by the epiphany of the moment, when a character’s comment takes on new meaning.”<\/p>\n


\n\tLisberger doesn\u2019t have a favorite. \u201cA story like \u2018Bush Beating,\u2019 which is not a pretty story, still feels very powerful to me,\u201d she says. \u201c\u2018In the Mercy of Water\u2019 grabs me for its soul-bearing drama. \u2018Don\u2019t Let the Bastards Grind You Down\u2019 seems very daring. Then there are stories like \u2018Remember Love\u2019 and \u2018Point of Distraction\u2019 whose lyricism and attention to love also make them my favorites. The other stories have funny or sly moments in them, too. So they are all my favorites, I suppose, but for different reasons.\u201d <\/p>\n


\n\tWritten over the last decade, the stories aren\u2019t biographical, but Lisberger suggests that all stories have traces of the writer in them. She doesn\u2019t keep a journal although she did when she was younger. \u201cAs I see it now, we each have a limited number of words in us, and a limited time for writing, so I don\u2019t want to expend my words or time in doing any writing other than fiction,\u201d she says. \u201cI\u2019m reminded of a renown French jazz pianist who once stayed at our house. When I asked her how many hours she practiced, she looked up from her seat at the keyboard and said, \u2018Practice? I never practice. I always play!\u2019\u201d <\/p>\n


\n\tHer story ideas flow from diverse directions. For example, last year, Lisberger remembers a woman on a public bus boasting to the bus driver, \u201cI make a lasagna that could kill a horse.\u201d \u201cWhat a great line,\u201d she says. \u201cI\u2019m assuming it\u2019s a good lasagna! You\u2019ll see that line somewhere in my novel because it\u2019s just too good to pass up.\u201d<\/p>\n


\n\tBut once she starts writing, Lisberger focuses on character development. The plot will then take care of itself. <\/p>\n


\n\tBorn in Stamford, Connecticut in the 1950s, Lisberger grew up in Ithaca, N.Y. She began writing in earnest in 1995, four years after earning a Ph.D. in English from Boston University. In 1997 she started a low-residency MFA in Writing Program at Vermont College. At the time, she was teaching full-time in the Expository Writing Program at Harvard. Before coming to 溏心vlog免费B站, she taught literature, drama, feminist theory, fiction and creative nonfiction at Holy Cross, Tufts University, Harvard University, and Brown University.<\/p>\n


\nShe also currently teaches in the Brief-Residency MFA in Writing Program at Spalding University in Louisville, Kentucky.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

KINGSTON, R.I. \u2013March 18, 2008 \u2014 Jody Lisberger of Exeter, interim director of Women’s Studies Program at the 溏心vlog免费B站, knows something about love. Count the ways and they\u2019ll add up to at least 10–the same number of short stories in her collection, Remember Love, just out from Fleur-de-Lis Press. Remember Love, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":66340,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-66338","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-archives"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66338","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=66338"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66338\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/66340"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66338"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66338"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66338"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}