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Issue Details: First known date: 2022... 2022 The Writer Laid Bare : Emotional Honesty in a Writer's Art, Craft and Life
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‘My first tenet is write about what is urgent. Good literature, I believe, arises out of a pressing need to express something. Isn’t creative writing all about being possessed, seized, obsessed? It’s like sexual desire: you cannot sensibly choose what to be attracted to. Urgent subjects reside in our blood and marrow – whether we write about ourselves or not, they are bound to who we are, to our personal history, our passions or concerns. I cannot picture a serious artist working on a matter they are merely curious about; they must be driven to explore.' (Publication summary)
 

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    • Cammeray, Cremorne - Mosman - Northbridge area, Sydney Northeastern Suburbs, Sydney, New South Wales,: Simon and Schuster Australia , 2022 .
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      Extent: 352p.
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      •  Published 2 March 2022

      ISBN: 9781920727550

Works about this Work

Re-Mystification Adele Dumont , 2022 single work review
— Appears in: Sydney Review of Books , June 2022;

— Review of The Writer Laid Bare : Emotional Honesty in a Writer's Art, Craft and Life Lee Kofman , 2022 single work autobiography

'In her 2019 memoir Imperfect, Lee Kofman wrote about the disfiguring scars she sustained as a child, the result of several major surgeries. She describes going to great lengths to conceal these scars as an adult, with her ‘shell of stockings and long dresses’. It is this impulse towards concealment and secrecy that first led me to feel a great (and covert) sense of kinship with Kofman. In my case, it was my own mental illness, and its strange physical manifestations, that I was driven to hide.'(Introduction)   

Fighting Nonesty : Lee Kofman on the Creative Process Merav Fima , 2022 single work essay
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , June no. 443 2022; (p. 33)

'Reading craft manuals may be another mode of procrastination for aspiring writers, but Lee Kofman’s latest book, The Writer Laid Bare, is well worth the time. Her sage advice, interwoven with an intimate account of her own creative development as a migrant writer, makes fascinating reading.'  (Introduction)

Books Roundup : Hovering, Unlimited Futures, The Burnished Sun, The Writer Laid Bare Ellen Cregan , Yamiko Marama , Elizabeth Flux , Anna Rodway , 2022 single work review
— Appears in: Kill Your Darlings [Online] , April 2022;

— Review of Hovering Rhett Davis , 2022 single work novel ; Unlimited Futures 2022 anthology short story ; The Burnished Sun Mirandi Riwoe , 2022 selected work short story ; The Writer Laid Bare : Emotional Honesty in a Writer's Art, Craft and Life Lee Kofman , 2022 single work autobiography
y separately published work icon Lee Kofman on Writing Honestly and Reading as a Writer Astrid Edwards (interviewer), 2022 24385400 2022 single work podcast interview

'Lee Kofman is a Russian-born, Israeli-Australian novelist, essayist and memoirist. She has published a number of books, including her memoir, The Dangerous Bride, and Imperfect: How Our Bodies Shape the People We Become. In 2022 she released The Writer Laid Bare, a book about the craft of writing. Lee holds a PhD in social sciences and MA in creative writing. She has also published three fiction books written in Hebrew and published in Israel.'  (Introduction)

Books Roundup : Hovering, Unlimited Futures, The Burnished Sun, The Writer Laid Bare Ellen Cregan , Yamiko Marama , Elizabeth Flux , Anna Rodway , 2022 single work review
— Appears in: Kill Your Darlings [Online] , April 2022;

— Review of Hovering Rhett Davis , 2022 single work novel ; Unlimited Futures 2022 anthology short story ; The Burnished Sun Mirandi Riwoe , 2022 selected work short story ; The Writer Laid Bare : Emotional Honesty in a Writer's Art, Craft and Life Lee Kofman , 2022 single work autobiography
Re-Mystification Adele Dumont , 2022 single work review
— Appears in: Sydney Review of Books , June 2022;

— Review of The Writer Laid Bare : Emotional Honesty in a Writer's Art, Craft and Life Lee Kofman , 2022 single work autobiography

'In her 2019 memoir Imperfect, Lee Kofman wrote about the disfiguring scars she sustained as a child, the result of several major surgeries. She describes going to great lengths to conceal these scars as an adult, with her ‘shell of stockings and long dresses’. It is this impulse towards concealment and secrecy that first led me to feel a great (and covert) sense of kinship with Kofman. In my case, it was my own mental illness, and its strange physical manifestations, that I was driven to hide.'(Introduction)   

y separately published work icon Lee Kofman on Writing Honestly and Reading as a Writer Astrid Edwards (interviewer), 2022 24385400 2022 single work podcast interview

'Lee Kofman is a Russian-born, Israeli-Australian novelist, essayist and memoirist. She has published a number of books, including her memoir, The Dangerous Bride, and Imperfect: How Our Bodies Shape the People We Become. In 2022 she released The Writer Laid Bare, a book about the craft of writing. Lee holds a PhD in social sciences and MA in creative writing. She has also published three fiction books written in Hebrew and published in Israel.'  (Introduction)

Fighting Nonesty : Lee Kofman on the Creative Process Merav Fima , 2022 single work essay
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , June no. 443 2022; (p. 33)

'Reading craft manuals may be another mode of procrastination for aspiring writers, but Lee Kofman’s latest book, The Writer Laid Bare, is well worth the time. Her sage advice, interwoven with an intimate account of her own creative development as a migrant writer, makes fascinating reading.'  (Introduction)

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