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Pod Night 2.0: A Series of Talks on Freelance Journalism

Journalist David Hochman has kindly asked me to be his guest tonight on Upod Academy's interview series. Tonight's event: Finding Stories Only You Can Tell (And Sell): Getting Personal with Nancy Rommelmann, wherein we will talk about journalism and I... Continue reading

Posted 3 days ago at Nancy Rommelmann

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Advice to a Young Freelancer

I posted a new essay on Medium.com, Advice to a Young Freelancer. Sample Q & A: How do you find your stories? I sometimes find story ideas in the Metro section of the newspaper, one-inch items with headlines like, “Man... Continue reading

Posted 3 days ago at Nancy Rommelmann

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Uncommon Youth: The Gilded Life and Tragic Times of J. Paul Getty III

My first book review for the Wall Street Journal is online, and in the print edition tomorrow, May 22. I am so pleased about writing for the WSJ, an idea I had about six weeks ago, asking a friend on-staff... Continue reading

Posted 4 days ago at Nancy Rommelmann

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Genre Books: Are You With Me?

It was 3:14 in the morning. She couldn't sleep. She gathered her things in the dark--water bottle, iPad--and tripped on her shoes on the way to the spare bedroom. She didn't want to read the book(s) she was in the... Continue reading

Posted May 14, 2013 at Nancy Rommelmann

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WRITERS WHO LIE

Our literary landscape is littered with the remains of writers whose careers as reporters, memoirists and even novelists have proven to be fabricated. Is it ever okay for a writer to tell a lie? We look into the question here. Continue reading

Posted May 13, 2013 at Nancy Rommelmann

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Mother Lode - Crimes of Fashion

About a decade after a woman gives birth to a girl, she begins to know exponentially and unequivocally less about fashion than her daughter. I’m not talking about (what are for me) the classics; I’ve got a DVF wrap dress,... Continue reading

Posted May 12, 2013 at Nancy Rommelmann

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Thank You, Lilly Pulitzer

I was on eBay yesterday looking to buy, for an upcoming trip to Maui, a Lilly Pulitzer dress. I love her work and have been wearing it since I was a teenager and found a pretty little halter dress at... Continue reading

Posted Apr 8, 2013 at Nancy Rommelmann

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The Shelter Cycle, by Peter Rock

My review, from the Sunday Oregonian. A clip: Let us talk about deeply imagined fiction, Mary Gaitskill's "Veronica" and the stories of Paul Bowles and now Peter Rock's "The Shelter Cycle," books that follow no familiar path; which have their... Continue reading

Posted Apr 2, 2013 at Nancy Rommelmann

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The New York Review of Books 50th Anniversary Party, with Mom

My mother called in January and said, "I think I have a way to get you to come home." The way was to be her +1 at the NY Review of Books 50th Anniversary event at The Town Hall. I... Continue reading

Posted Mar 17, 2013 at Nancy Rommelmann

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Come One! Come All! Yon Smallpressapalooza #6!

Have you been to the Small Press section of Powell's lately? It is seriously one of the sexiest parts of the store. Come hear 13 of its authors in action: Oregon Book Award finalist Carrie Seitzinger! Memoirists Lindsey Kugler and... Continue reading

Posted Mar 13, 2013 at Nancy Rommelmann

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Sunday Great Book: Jan Yoors, "Crossing"

I found the book Crossing: A journal of survival and resistance in World War II among my mother's books, when I was about age seventeen. I see, now, that it is inscribed to her ("Kathy... to continue the dialogue. Affectionately... Continue reading

Posted Mar 10, 2013 at Nancy Rommelmann

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Saturday Great Book (Special Monday Edition!): Sterling Hayden, "Wanderer"

How and why I picked up Wanderer, Sterling Hayden's 1976 memoir of defying Hollywood and the courts and setting sail for the South Seas with his four children, is lost to time. I can tell you, it was more than... Continue reading

Posted Mar 3, 2013 at Nancy Rommelmann

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The Walking Pneumonia Song

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Posted Mar 1, 2013 at Nancy Rommelmann

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Saturday Great Book: Joan Didion's "After Henry"

Great books, in my opinion, brought to you every Saturday. First up: Joan Didion's After Henry, a collection of nonfiction essays, many of which appeared in the New York Review of Books. Didion was the first to speak earlier in... Continue reading

Posted Feb 23, 2013 at Nancy Rommelmann

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"We Live in Water," by Jess Walter

My review of the story collection, We Live in Water, by Jess Walter, which runs tomorrow in the Sunday Oregonian. A clip: In 1993, Robert Altman released the dramatic comedy "Short Cuts." Based on the stories of Raymond Carver, the... Continue reading

Posted Feb 16, 2013 at Nancy Rommelmann

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For the Facebook crew xx With no job and no connections, I head to LA, where my brother Chris has moved the year before. He says he has a room for me. He’ll take care of everything. He’s not home... Continue reading

Posted Feb 12, 2013 at Nancy Rommelmann

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Joy by Zadie Smith | The New York Review of Books

Joy by Zadie Smith | The New York Review of Books. Continue reading

Posted Jan 29, 2013 at Nancy Rommelmann

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Literature, Coffee, Beer: Transportation in Miami

We are here in balmy Miami, drinking the best coffee in Florida roasted and purveyed by our friends Joel and Leticia Pollock of Panther Coffee. The beautiful Leticia--with an assist from John Hood and seemingly every other cool fast person... Continue reading

Posted Jan 21, 2013 at Nancy Rommelmann

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"Transportation" Review: On the black edge of fear, desire and despair (The Sunday Oregonian)

The Sunday Oregonian, Janaury 20, 2013 by Anne Saker Confession here: I am an utter wimp where the macabre is concerned. But the haunting weirdness of Nancy Rommelmann's new collection of stories, "Transportation," still lives with me. Rommelmann, a well-known... Continue reading

Posted Jan 20, 2013 at Nancy Rommelmann

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I Will Be on KOIN-TV Tonight, Talking about Amanda Stott-Smith

I was contacted by a producer for KOIN, who heard about my on-going work looking into Amanda's life, the circumstances leading up to her dropping her children from the Sellwood Bridge in May 2009 (lead up as in, decades), how... Continue reading

Posted Jan 10, 2013 at Nancy Rommelmann

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What We Must Read: Barry Lopez "Sliver of Sky", Terrence Holt "In the Valley of the Kings"

I have been reading Terrence Holt's story collection, In the Valley of the Kings. I bought the book after learning that Holt is Junot Diaz's favorite author ("There is no one in the wide sea of English who writes like... Continue reading

Posted Jan 9, 2013 at Nancy Rommelmann

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Thank You, Powell's City of Books

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Posted Jan 7, 2013 at Nancy Rommelmann

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The Next Big Thing: Ten Interview Questions

The Next Big Thing is a series winding its way through the blogosphere. I was tagged by the magnificent writer Natalie Serber, author of SHOUT HER LOVELY NAME. You can find out more about Natalie and her work here. What... Continue reading

Posted Jan 7, 2013 at Nancy Rommelmann

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Arty Party: Two Books, One Party at Ristretto Roasters

I have known Byron Beck since I came to Portland. I have seen him in that time bloom and bloom and bloom; everyone knows Byron and Byron knows everyone. When he shines his light on you, you bloom too, to... Continue reading

Posted Jan 4, 2013 at Nancy Rommelmann

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TRANSPORTATION, and the Company it Brings

On January 1 of this year, I released The Queens of Montague Street, a memoir of growing up in 1970s Brooklyn Heights. Last week, Longreads named it one of the Top 10 of 2012 Nonfiction reads. Others include John Branch's... Continue reading

Posted Dec 31, 2012 at Nancy Rommelmann

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