This week, the Village Voice is running a great feature on the life and times of independent reggae producer and basement-dweller Victor Axelrod, written by conference participant and my pal Matt Scheiner, who certainly knows a lot about this sort of thing. Here’s a snippet from the article, which you can find in this week’s [...]
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So Is It Mr. Axelrod, or Should I Just Call You Ticklah?
Posted in Exciting News, Matt Scheiner, Press clipping on October 30, 2007 | 3 Comments »
Paging Dr. Virginia
Posted in Press clipping, Ursula Hegi on October 7, 2007 | 3 Comments »
So: it’s been a while. I’m not even sure if anyone still reads this thing, but here’s a little news to those who still dial in to Don’t Date to keep track of the tumbleweeds. This week’s New York Times Book Review featured both a review of Ursula Hegi’s new novel, The Worst Thing I’ve [...]
The Bestselling Virgins are Restless!
Posted in Abigail Drachman-Jones, Exciting News, Press clipping, Restless Virgins on September 11, 2007 | 4 Comments »
The newly released Restless Virgins: Love, Sex, and Survival at a New England Prep School, by Abigail Jones and Marissa Miley hit No. 1 on the Boston Globe’s bestseller list this week. For those of you keeping score at home, that means Virgins has sold more copies this week than The Secret. Yes, miracles do [...]
Kids, Leave the Room.
Posted in Abigail Drachman-Jones, Exciting News, Press clipping, Restless Virgins, Video on August 31, 2007 | 2 Comments »
A few days ago, conference participant Abigail Drachman-Jones and her co-author, Marisa Miley, mixed it up with the Today show’s Natalie Morales regarding the controversial subject matter of their new book, Restless Virgins. Here’s a link to video of the segment, and here’s a link to Today’s write-up of the book.
Also, here’s a link [...]
Notes On A Scandal: “Restless Virgins” in Boston Globe
Posted in Exciting News, Press clipping on August 23, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Blowing the lid off of “generational exhibitionism,” never came with a better press photo. Our conference’s very own Abigail Drachman-Jones continues her whirlwind publicity tour which includes an appearance on the Today show, August 29th, and a feature on the new Star Jones show, sometime in September.
Not to mention her scheduled radio appearance on Oprah’s [...]
Southampton In The News(day)
Posted in Bob Reeves, Press clipping on August 22, 2007 | 4 Comments »
Thanks to Matt Scheiner, who sent us this Newsday profile of Robert Reeves, in which he discusses the estimable, irreplaceable, life-changing experience that is the Southampton Writers Conference.
Also, big shout outs to the ‘07 participant names that graced this article — Patricia O’Hara and Amy Portnoy — as well as to all the other participants [...]
