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Comment on About Zoe Zolbrod (that’s me) by zoezolbrod

zoezolbrod — Wed, 14 Mar 2012 21:48:04 +0000

Thank you so much for taking the time to tell me that. I really appreciate it.

Comment on About Zoe Zolbrod (that’s me) by Robert Grindy

Robert Grindy — Wed, 14 Mar 2012 21:04:16 +0000

I just wanted to let you all know how much I enjoyed your “loser Beach” panel at AWP– probably my favorite AWP panel ever. You all put your finger right on the anxieties and tribulations of the great unbooked, particularly those of us in academia. A pleasure to hear such honesty, and humor too. My own wrestling with these demons resulted in a novel about a just-turned-40 teacher so desperate for a book he steals from a dead student (madcap mayhem ensues). It is, of course, unpublished.

Comment on CURRENCY by Get to Know: Zoe Zolbrod | Essay Fiesta

Get to Know: Zoe Zolbrod | Essay Fiesta — Mon, 12 Mar 2012 13:50:30 +0000

[...] reader to highlight is the alliterate Zoe Zolbrod. Zoe is a writer, editor and traveler. Her novel CURRENCY came out in 2010 from Other Voices Books. It won a Nobbie Award! She’s currently working on a [...]

Comment on WILD: The Journeys of Our Youth by zoezolbrod

zoezolbrod — Fri, 09 Mar 2012 15:22:20 +0000

Thanks for reflecting that back to me, Patti.

Comment on WILD: The Journeys of Our Youth by Patti Vick

Patti Vick — Fri, 09 Mar 2012 13:37:11 +0000

“I can view the years separating me from youth as a divorce, where one stage can no longer lay claim to what’s found in another. But we exist at once. That’s what I more often feel lately. It’s one of the nice things about getting older, how much we can contain.”

I really like this idea as I hit my mid-40s. My young self feels like a different lifetime. I like how you interrogate, claim and integrate that part of yourself into the present moment.

Comment on Family Travel: Kids and the List by WILD: The Journeys of Our Youth « the next youth hostel

WILD: The Journeys of Our Youth « the next youth hostel — Fri, 09 Mar 2012 06:04:42 +0000

[...] actually. The hitchhiking and backpacking remain cornerstones, bedrocks of my identity. Even motherhood—the painful antithesis to solo voyaging, it would seem, and the start of new story [...]

Comment on Hey, Baby, Let’s Go for a Ride by WILD: The Journeys of Our Youth « the next youth hostel

WILD: The Journeys of Our Youth « the next youth hostel — Fri, 09 Mar 2012 06:04:40 +0000

[...] now? And I do, to some degree. But to another degree, I don’t, actually. The hitchhiking and backpacking remain cornerstones, bedrocks of my identity. Even motherhood—the painful antithesis to solo [...]

Comment on About Zoe Zolbrod (that’s me) by Christine Simokaitis

Christine Simokaitis — Thu, 08 Mar 2012 04:27:01 +0000

Hi Zoe –
wanted to say thanks for the Four Over Forty panel at AWP. I SO needed that! I really appreciated hearing your story. I’m one of those people who was going to avoid the panel and groaned when I read the title. I went in support of Dan Libman, and I’m so glad I did. I’m new to your blog and will check out more of your work.
Thanks again!
Christine Simokaitis

Comment on CURRENCY by Kari Altpeter

Kari Altpeter — Mon, 05 Mar 2012 03:43:26 +0000

Just ordered the last 3 copies from Amazon for gifts for my friends…print more!

Comment on CURRENCY by zoezolbrod

zoezolbrod — Mon, 05 Mar 2012 03:29:16 +0000

Kari, thank you so much for taking the time to tell me this. It makes me so happy to hear that I’ve written a book that’s given someone the kind of experience I like the best from reading. Yay!