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Mindy Lewis

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New York, NY, The United States

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Mindy Lewis is the author of Life Inside: A Memoir (Washington Square Press), co-author of A Curious Life: From Rebel Orphan to Innovative Scientistwith Thomas Haines, and editor of DIRT: The Quirks, Habits, and Passions of Keeping House(Seal Press, Spring 2009). Winner of the 2015 New Letters Essay Award, her essays have been published in Newsweek, Lilith, Arts & Letters, Body & Soul, New Letters, Psychoanalytic Perspectives, Santa Ana River Review, and Poets & Writers magazines. She has taught at The Writer's Voice, Hudson Valley Writers' Guild, Brooklyn College, and currently teaches privately. ...more

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	Life Inside 3.81 avg rating — 617 ratings — published 2002 — 9 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Dirt: The Quirks, Habits, and Passions of Keeping House by Mindy Lewis (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Louise Rafkin (Contributor), Nancy Peacock (Contributor) 3.36 avg rating — 193 ratings — published 2009 — 9 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A Curious Life: From Rebel Orphan to Innovative Scientist by Thomas H. Haines (Goodreads Author), Mindy Lewis (Goodreads Author) 4.60 avg rating — 10 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Broke as Beans: Tips and Ideas on How to Survive Being Broke 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Unicorn Coloring Book: (NEW 2022) JUMBO, EASY, FUN LARGE cartoon pictures to color for kids ages 2-4. 10 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Loving Arrangements: Stories About Modern Living and Loving by Nan Bauer-Maglin, Margaret Stetz (Contributor), Susan Ostrov Weisser (Contributor) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Mini Greek Stories: A short stories book with exercises, grammar tables and vocabulary

by Theodoros Vasilopoulos

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Dangerous Years: Climate Change, the Long Emergency, and the Way Forward

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Orwell's Roses

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Mindy Lewis made a comment on Jessica’s review of Raising Hare: A Memoir " I too loved this book and found it nuanced, absorbing and surprisingly moving. "
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“Writing is a socially acceptable form of schizophrenia.”
― E.L. Doctorow

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“Writing is like driving at night in the fog. You can only see as far as your headlights, but you can make the whole trip that way.”
― E.L. Doctorow, Writers At Work: The Paris Review Interviews, 2nd Series

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“Good writing is supposed to evoke sensation in the reader—not the fact that it is raining, but the feeling of being rained upon.”
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“Planning to write is not writing. Outlining, researching, talking to people about what you're doing, none of that is writing. Writing is writing. ”
― E.L. Doctorow

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“Writers are not just people who sit down and write. They hazard themselves. Every time you compose a book your composition of yourself is at stake. ”
― E.L. Doctorow

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