Susan Stinson

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Mass Humanities Blog Posts

September 7, 2018

Tags: Amerst College, Jonathan Edwards, Spider in a Tree, Teaching, slavery, New England, Henry James, fiction, Mass Humanities

Here is a link to posts by and about me on the Massachusetts Humanities blog, The Public Humanist. Topics include teaching fiction writing, reading Henry James, fiction as misdirection, and the 18th century theologian as slave-owner.

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Selected Works

Novels

Martha Moody Twenty-fifth anniversary edition from Small Beer Press!

I can think of no-one who writes with more love, passion, and precision about the pleasures of the body and the pleasures of the soul, and that nebulous intersection of body and soul.-Elizabeth McCracken

Spider In a Tree

Small Beer Press!
"Like Jonathan Edwards, Stinson reads the natural world as well as Scripture, searching for meaning. But instead of the portents of an angry god, what she finds there is something numinous, complicated, and radiantly human." -Alison Bechdel

Venus of Chalk is by turns tender and ruthless, dark and funny, haunting and starkly contemporary. In spare, eloquent prose Stinson mines depths most writers shy away from. This is one ride you won't want to miss. -- Alison Smith, author, Name All the Animals. Now available at Book Moon Books!

Fat Girl Dances with Rocks

Susan Stinson's first novel is full of big, beautiful language and her main character, Char, is one of the best teenaged heroines I've ever met.-Judith Katz

Misc. Writing

Poetry and personal essays about fatness. Now available at Book Moon Books!

Novel Excerpts

Three Excerpts from MARTHA MOODY

Link: Lavender Review

Anthology

Letter to my young, queer self. As seen on The View.

Links

Slow, KR Online

New: My essay up at the Kenyon Review

Read Interview: Grab The Lapels

Grab the Lapels

2017 appreciation of Belly Songs by Melanie Page

Grab the Lapels

2017 review by Melanie Page of Fat Girl Dances With Rocks

Listern: Valley Free Radio interview by Ruthy Woodring, 8.17.2016

Ruthy and Susan talk about her novel Fat Girl Dances With Rocks

Read: Write Angles Conference interview

Gave keynote at 2015 WriteAngles Conference. Interview by author Ellen Meeropol.

Read: Forbes Library Trustees Award.

I got a lovely honor.

Audio: New interview with Bob Flaherty, WHMP

Spider in a Tree, Book Swap

"The rhetorical moves are unbelievable."

Audio: New interview with Rick Kleffel, The Agony Column, KUSP, Spider in a Tree

Listen: The Writer's Voice (syndicated radio show) 10.5.13

Interview by Drew Adamek about Susan's novel Spider in a Tree

Listen: Massachusetts Humanities: Bringing the Humanities to Life

Interew with Pleun Bouricious and Joe Donohue, WAMC Roundtable

Listen: River Runs Through Us 6 Final Episode

Russell Powell & Highlights from series. Includes Susan talking about writing Spider in a Tree.

Listen: Bill Newman Show WHMP 9.26.13

Smith College Workers Speak Out, then Susan on Spider in a Tree

Writer...Honors Theologian with Bridge Street Cemetery Tours

Springfield Republican, Cori Urban, 9.25.13

Writer in Residence Emeritus, Forbes Library, Northampton, MA

Interview: How to Fall

Plum Magazine

Interview: Judith Frank on Mourning, Taking on Volatile Subject Matter and Queer Relationships

Lambda Literary

At The Table Essay/Poem

Public Humanist

Boston Public Library Op Ed

Daily Hampshire Gazette

Being In The Letter Q

Lambda Literary

WFCR:Reflections on Anti-Gay Methodist Decision

podcast

Fiction and Misdirection

The Public Humanist

Writing Life video

Susan talks with Paradise City Press about sustaining beautiful ambitions, having a structure, taboo topics and writing with others.

The Writing Room

The Common

Adrienne Rich: Send Something Back essay

Lambda Literary Review

Other Side of the Paper: Jonathan Edwards as Slave-Owner

The Public Humanist

Bundling, excerpt from Spider in a Tree

Necessary Fiction

Theology and insects: researching a novel

Necessary Fiction

Lambda Literary

Lynne Gerber, Interview

Lambda Literary

Interview with Paul Lisicky

Lambda Literary

Interview with Sally Bellerose

Review of More of This World or Maybe Another by Barb Johnson

"Lesbian Writers on Forbidden Territory:" writing about Jonathan Edwards

Essay for WomenArts about why I persist in being an artist when the rewards are slow to come.

Radio interview and reading, The Writer's Voice, WMUA and syndicated.

Interview with Susan Stinson by Francesca Rhiannon starts at 42:41, after some great Roethke poems. Most of the show is an interview with novelist Nicholson Baker. Reading from Spider In A Tree.

Review of American Romances by Rebecca Brown

"Met Roof Garden," poem

"The Two Sams," review

Publishing Triangle: Top Ten Lesbian Books

Interview with Susan Stinson, Sharon Bridgforth and Lenore Chinn in the Women Arts Newsletter

Writers and Artists I Like

Sally Bellerose

Charlotte Cooper

Gavin Grant, Small Beer Press

Rebecca O. Johnson

Elizabeth McCracken

Damian McNicholl

Sarah Van Arsdale