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1/18/12: Baltimore Fishbowl Top Stories of 2011
12/12/11: Best Books of 2011, as seen in Newsday (PDF format).
12/8/11: Check out Jessica Anya Blau's top five books for giving —
The Glen Rock Book of the Dead among them!
11/29/11: With Ralph Nader and others, MW on parenting and giving on the Wisconsin Public Radio show "To the Best of Our Knowledge."
12/6/11: Review of Stephen King's 11/22/63, as seen in Newsday (PDF format).
11/30/11: Review of Diane Keaton memoir, as seen in Newsday (PDF format).
10/31/11: Review of Steve Jobs bio, as seen in Newsday (PDF format).
10/12/11: Review of puppy memoir by NY Times boss Jill Abramson, as seen in Newsday (PDF format).
10/6/11: Cool write-up in the Baltimore Bibliophile's blog today. She mentions the magnet and my Poets & Writers article, "How I Made My First Million" (PDF format).
9/11/11: What I did this summer — a review of the top ten 9/11 novels, as seen in Newsday (PDF format).
6/21/11: New in print: "How I Made My First Million" in the July/August Poets and Writers. "My First Tour de France" in July/August Baltimore Style.
6/9/11: I was scared to write this, but I'm glad I did -- and I am so enjoying the instant feedback of the comments people leave.
Read "Desperate Housewives of Roland Park" in my Baltimore Fishbowl column.
6/3/11: I've published my first novel, NINETY-PERCENT MENTAL, as an e-book. Read more about it here.
5/25/11: Smart women in love and trouble: new novels by Siri Hustvedt and Amy Stolls, reviewed in Newsday (PDF format).
5/22/11: Read "The Boomer and The Boomerang: A Love Story" in Baltimore Fishbowl. A chapter from my work-in-progress.
5/17/11: Augusten Burroughs' mother, Margaret Robison, settles the score. Sort of. (PDF format.)
5/16/11: WYPR's Lisa Morgan replayed our talk about Glen Rock Book of the Dead to promote the Ivy Bookshop reading this Thursday night. Starts 15 minutes into the podcast.
5/10/11: MW reviews new novels from Madison Smartt Bell, Jessica Anya Blau, and Ron Tanner in the Baltimore Sun.
4/27/11: Three interesting fiction debuts: Rebecca Hunt, Ralph Sassone, and Manuel Muñoz (PDF format).
4/26/11: Nice to be mentioned in this post - the other two pieces, by Steve Almond and Lorrie Moore, are excellent.
4/4/11: This writer always rocks my world: Francisco Goldman's amazing novel about his wife's death (PDF format).
3/14/11: Late to the party on Jodi Picoult (PDF format).
2/18/11: A guy walks into a bookstore. Buys a book. Writes a cool blog entry. Thanks, Angry Wayne!
2/18/11: Ouch. MW review of Joyce Carol Oates' A Widow's Story (PDF format).
2/10/11: "The best memoirs read like novels, so well crafted that they transform life into art,
people into characters, the author into a narrator. They do this not by lying, but through the alchemy of
storytelling. Lesser memoirs feel more like journalism: They may be absorbing and well written, but there’s no liftoff." From the Newsday review of Dave Itzoff's Cocaine's Son (PDF format).
1/15/11: Meet my new best friend Jessica Anya Blau, who has a novel out this month. I interviewed her about Drinking Closer to Home for the Austin Chronicle.
1/14/11: Recent reviews (PDF format) of Charles Elton's Mr. Toppit, and Kim Edwards' The Lake of Dreams.
12/30/10: Newsday book critics pick the year's ten best (PDF format).
12/15/10: Small press fiction roundup, as seen in Newsday (PDF format).
Baltimore Holiday Fun: On December 17, I'll be telling a story at O Little Town of Baltimore, a live radio variety show at CenterStage. Go to stoopstorytelling.com for tickets and info.
11/4/10: The Glen Rock Book of the Dead is available in paperback. Counterpoint did a beautiful job on the new edition. Adorable and affordable too.
11/1/10: Review of Antonya Nelson's Bound, as seen in Newsday (PDF format).
11/25/10: Review of Siddhartha Mukherjee's The Emperor of All Maladies in Newsday (PDF format).
10/16/10: Meet Mr. Turkey in my Thanksgiving essay for Real Simple.
10/9/10: The Earth Project reading at the University of Baltimore Student Center, 1 pm. Thirteen writers were asked to create pieces inspired by works of art about the environment, curated by Penny Harris. You can see my poem and the beautiful Brian Martin painting it illustrates at http://www.fallmedia.net/earth/winik.php.
8/30/10: Review of Kevin Guilfoile's The Thousand, as seen in the Los Angeles Times.
8/24/10: Review of Emily Fox Gordon's Book of Days, as seen in Newsday (PDF format).
8/22/10: Review of Rosencrans Baldwin's You Lost Me There, as seen in Newsday (PDF format).
7/28/10: Review of Marcy Dermansky's Bad Marie, as seen in Newsday (PDF format).Calling all doglovers: The MW edition of Marshal Zerengue's New Orleans-based "Coffee with a Canine" includes hot new pix of Beau: Read the interview.
7/7/10: Review of Sloane Crosley's How Did You Get This Number, as seen in Newsday (PDF format).
5/30/10: In the LA Times . . . MW on missing Tony, 16 years later.
5/26/10: Reviews of Julie Orringer's The Invisible Bridge and Brady Udall's The Lonely Polygamist, as seen in Newsday (PDF format).
5/3/10: MW's first appearance in Baltimore's Urbanite magazine: "Still Life With Price Tag".
4/6/10: DEFUNCT, a new lit mag covering all that is gone, gone, gone, debuts with an article by MW on her favorite pinball machine. Great company includes Joe Wenderoth, Lia Purpura and Dinty Moore.
3/26/10: "Short story: this is a fun book..." So begins MW's review of Lisa Grunwald's The Irresistible Henry House.
3/24/10: Review of Elif Batuman's The Possessed: Adventures With Russian Books and the People Who Read Them.
3/3/10: Check out "Authors' Secret Delight: Doing Revisions" by the great Seattle-based book critic John Marshall, over at indiereader.com. He interviewed everyone from Jon Krakauer to Tom Robbins to Marion Winik, whoever she is.
2/23/10: MW on hot yoga in March issue of Health magazine.
2/11/10: Review of the new Cathleen Schine novel, The Three Weissmans of Westport.
2/8/10: Check out my mixtape at Shaking Like A Mountain.
12/20/09: Review of the new, posthumous Dominick Dunne.
12/7/09: MW and Dylan Landis talk about writing and stuff in the JMMW online journal.
10/15/09: Review of Francine Prose's new book on Anne Frank in the Contra Costa Times.
9/21/09: The Writers' League of Texas has announced the finalists for the 2009 Book Awards. The Glen Rock Book of the Dead is among the six titles selected in nonfiction. The prize is awarded in Austin at the Texas Book Festival on October 31st.
8/2/09: Picked up off the Newsday wire in sunny California: Review of Joyce Maynard's latest novel, Labor Day.
Hilarious if I do say so myself: Review of Acceptance by David Marcus in Newsday.
7/24/09: Review of Short Girls by Bich Minh Nguyen in L.A. Times.
Marion has written eight poems for In The Kitchen, a beautiful new book of photography by Dona Schwartz about blended families, teenagers, and domestic life.
Read her poem "The Revolution Will Not Be Televised (But It Might Be On YouTube)" and order your copy.
Another poem from In the Kitchen, "Packing List," is published in Upstreet #5, a cool literary journal out of Massachusetts. Order on the upstreet website or from Barnes and Noble.
6/21/09: Marion in the LA Times on the ethics of memoir.
More magazine asked six writers – Patricia Volk, Perri Klass, Patricia Marx, Joyce Carol Oates, Patricia J. Smith and me –
"Do you really want to live to be 100?"
You can find the answers in the June 2009 issue (p. 93).
My response is here.
Marion on Urbanite magazine editor Marianne Amoss's radio program, at the Umbrella Radio site.
Listen to Marion on the Baltimore NPR station, WYPR, talking about The Glen Rock Book of the Dead.
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