by Lisa Gruenberg | Sep 7, 2025 | Uncategorized
I’m back after long silence. The deluxe paperback of My City of Dreams with the new reader’s guide is just out. My novel, Triptych, is still looking for an agent and publisher. I’m organizing my desk and starting to set aside time to write regularly. I’ll be...
by Lisa Gruenberg | Feb 2, 2025 | Uncategorized
Six years after the publication of my memoir, I’ve completed a novel. It wasn’t supposed to take this long, but writing has been tucked around the edges of work and everything else life has thrown me over the past few years. I was finally mobilized by a wonderful and...
by Lisa Gruenberg | Oct 3, 2022 | Uncategorized
An update on the deluxe paperback edition of My City of Dreams: We’ve had some challenges. The high-quality paper TidePool Press prefers became scarce in 2021, causing delays. Then there was a fire at the plant that makes the covers. Then the computer systems at the...
by Lisa Gruenberg | Mar 2, 2022 | Uncategorized
[Photo Caption: Jewish nurses and nursing students gather around a cart outside a coffee house on the designated Judenstrasse during the Nazi occupation of the Netherlands, ca. 1940-1942 – United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of Clara Renee Karen...
by Lisa Gruenberg | Jul 11, 2021 | Uncategorized
In 2007-2010 I made three service trips to the Eastern Cape of South Africa, the subject of an essay titled And the Lame Shall Walk published in the Michigan Quarterly Review. I’d finished the first draft of My City of Dreams and was trying to write something new. I...
by Lisa Gruenberg | Jun 7, 2021 | Uncategorized
I had a wonderful virtual reading in my hometown of Syracuse, NY through Temple Concord on March 22. It was great to see so many old friends and new readers. I read the first paragraph from one of the old “beginnings” of my memoir, back when it started with merged...
