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"As an editor myself, I know the difference between the competent and the brilliant, and Linda
falls into the latter category. She has an eagle eye: She looks at the larger picture without
losing sight of the details, and she’s able to see not only what’s extraneous but also what’s
missing in a piece of writing. She asked me only one question about my own work; answering
that question turned my piece from an interesting story into a profound one."
Ann Patty, editor and founding publisher of Poseidon Press
and author of Living With a Dead Language: My Romance With Latin.
“Honest, heartfelt voices."
- Publishers Weekly Read review >>
"As co-editor Linda Gravenson writes of these 32 women, "These are the women I'd want in my lifeboat." Gravenson is also the author of one of the book's moving essays. In it she recollects her totally crazy and confusing childhood-to-adulthood relationship with her debilitatingly dangerous mentally ill mother, and her feelings after this unfortunate creature had passed. "
- The Huffington Post Read review >>
"I did immensely In the Fullness of Time, and I did need to know the remarkable depth and range of thoughts, feelings, fears, risks, joys, wounds and failures that editors Emily W. Upham and Linda Gravenson invited their 32 literary guests to share."
- Bookreporter.com Read review >>
"[In the Fullness of Time] is without exception, honest and revealing."
- Cleveland Plain Dealer Read review >>
"If I were to compare Linda Gravenson's editing to something it would be to that of a butterfly. She lands ever so lightly upon the words and then she is gone, and you hardly know she has been there. Until you read your work again. The change is always just right, making the sentence, the paragraph, the book ... immeasurably better."
Carla S. Reuben author, (in collaboration with Wally Carbone) of Raising Eyebrows by Dal LaMagna
"Linda's editing is both meticulous and insightful. She doesn't miss a misplaced comma or run-on sentence, but she can also see the big picture--what a piece needs to really sparkle. I have found her invaluable in analyzing my work and showing me where and how to do my best writing. And somehow she manages to do it gently, mixing encouragement with every critical observation."
Erica Manfred author of He's History, You're Not:
Surviving Divorce After 40
"I am honored to be among the wonderful writers in this anthology, which is as varied and provocative and just plain interesting as anything I've read in a long time."
Abigail Thomas, author of the best-selling memoir A Three Dog Life
