Event Calendar

November, 2009

Carolyn See participates in 30 writers on the People who Changed Their Lives

October, 2009

The Scholars and the Pornographers, an article by Carolyn See.

Monday, October 16th—LOS ANGELES, CA
7:00 pm
Talk & Signing
Distinguished Speakers' Series at
Studio City Branch Library
12511 Moorpark Street (corner of Moorpark and Whitsett)
Studio City, California 91604
Library Phone: 818/755-7873
Event Contact: Jo Perry, Chair Friends of the Library, worddrs@aol.com or 818/509-7845
Library Website:  www.studiocitylibraryfriends.org.

February 9, 2006

Carolyn's new novel, There Will Never be Another You will be released in May, 2006. Click here to read early praise

November 13, 2005

Carolyn See and others and their "fabulist literature" on Los Angeles in the LA Times -- click here to read

August 25, 2004

Carolyn See is interviewed in Westside Today -- click here to read

May 30, 2004

Bestselling Author and Washington Post Book Reviewer Carolyn See
On Writing and Keeping a Stiff Upper Lip by Byron Merritt, Fiction Writers of the Monterey Penninsula - click here to read.

May 27, 2003

Carolyn is interviewed in Making Bread Magazine - to read the interview, a login and password is required but it is provided to you by us- simply visit makingbreadmagazine.com (click here), then enter:

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April 18, 2003

Carolyn interviewed by Alan Cook for Southwest Manuscripters - click here to read.

March 26, 2003

Interview with Carolyn for Web Del Sol! Click here to read.

March 3, 2003

A q&a with Carolyn See for WriterAdvice! Click here to read.

January 2, 2003

CAROLYN SEE, TRACER OF LOST PERSONS! If you are any of the following, or if you know the whereabouts of the following, please write to Carolyn by clicking here.

Marliss Angel
Marliss, Joan Wilheim just sent me a photo of us in our twenties under a bridge in Paris. I remember you mostly for your french phrases "a la consigne!" Or, in every town we went through, "Ou est las poste?" because you were writing to that handsome pilot, Sgt Guy
Claire. I've looked you up in the Cassis and La Ciotat phone books, but you're gone. Where are you, dear?

Edward Weston Bonney III. Oh, Ed, every time I do a signing here in town, someone is bound to come up to me and ask where you are and what you're doing. And when I'm in Rogue River, Oregon, I dutifully call all the Bonneys in town, but I still draw a blank. I have a picture of you wearing a cool dude beret , playing a flute ... I think of you often, remembering Cal State LA and you dolefully singing "Spring can really Hang you up the most..."

RICHARD EVERETT JONES...
Wouldn't you be about 71 right now? Your memories would include a couple of years at Los Angeles City College, a love of surrealism, a room on the second floor of the Brevoort Hotel in Hollywood. And I can tell you that Gus Tassapolous and I were talking about you the other day. ( I don't want any old Tom, Dick or Harry Jones to get in touch with me on this. Your dad had a rather unusual occupation, that can be the code word.) I have many happy memories of you, Mr. Jones!

ROBERT JONES...
How can we narrow this down? You'd be about 70 by now. How strange is that? Your memories might include wearing white socks while stationed at Argentia Air Force Base in Newfoundland, and nearly getting shipped to Thule for that insurrection. You went to a mean seminary where they fed you white bread and hot chocolate made with water. What's the name of the tenor saxaphone player we both used to like?

WINONA LAURENZ...
The way women change names, I don't know just what your name would be now, Winona. But I think of you so often. We were waitresses together at the old Van de Kamps. You were so kind to a scared little girl who'd been kicked out of her house. You took me shopping, and introduced me to modern jazz ("Have you ever heard of Lee Konitz?") And showed me it was ok to live alone, and be on my own, and have some fun. You called me by my last name then, "Laws..." Where are you, dear?

October 13, 2002

September, 2002

Sage and friendly advice for aspiring scribes
By SAMANTHA PUCKETT
St. Petersburg Times, published September 15, 2002

IMAGINE THIS: You have been introduced to an established, respectable writer, and she likes you - a lot. So much, in fact, that she spends hours and hours giving you advice about writing and living a writer's life. She opens up to you about her painful family history, about which of her peers she respects and which she can't stand. She's funny and sassy; she cracks you up when she makes fun of Philip Roth. She gives you commonsense advice like: You must write "a thousand words a day. Five days a week. For the rest of your life." She also tells you to do clever things like write charming notes to people you don't know, and why that's a good idea. And she has faith in you.

What's more, you get to absorb all this sage advice while having a really good time - in your pajamas, whenever you want; five minutes at a time or five hours at a time. And for this, all you have to do is take one itsy bitsy trip to the bookstore and drop $23.95.

Sound good? Then go out and buy Making a Literary Life: Advice for Writers and Other Dreamers by Carolyn See (Random House, 260 pp).

Carolyn See LA Times Story

Getting Her Secrets in Writing
Carolyn See's new book addresses regimen, structure and yes, networking
By LYNELL GEORGE , Times Staff Writer

The flowers are here--long-stemmed exotics drifting out of grand vases. So are the crudités, the pâtés and cheeses. There are bottles of wine--two reds and two whites. And a waiter in vest, dark pants and starched shirt, looping around the perimeter of Dutton's Brentwood Books' deep courtyard.

The friends are here. Old colleagues and new. Family--immediate and extended. So are the students with fresh notebooks. Here too is a steady rain that falls uncharacteristically from a heavy, early-September sky.

The surprise evening shower is the only thing that isn't on writer Carolyn See's checklist of what should be a part of a working writer's arsenal. Her response:

"Let's get rolling!" See cranks her right arm in the air and winds through Dutton's covered breezeway. She threads through the thickening crowd, her black tunic and jacquard slacks flowing after her. Read the full story.

Making a Literary Life Gets SF Chronicle Rave -->read the review!

Carolyn See interviewed for Newsday Story

L.A. Confidential
By Susan Salter Reynolds
Susan Salter Reynolds is an assistant editor and book critic at the Los Angeles Times.
September 1, 2002
Los Angeles

Carolyn See recently had a bad date. Some bozo asked her why she didn't get more recognition from the literati in Los Angeles. "I am the literati in Los Angeles!" See told him, more amused than chagrined. This is important, because it is often hard to reconcile See's humility, empathy and patience with new writers with her hard-earned, extremely healthy ego.

If you are a writer, and you move to Los Angeles, you very soon learn to contact Carolyn See. She is one of the few Los Angeles authors who has achieved national prominence. She speaks for the rest of us here every time some Eastern-based conference organizer invites her to speak on a panel of "Western writers," or "women of the West," or "Los Angeles in contemporary fiction." Most of us are glad it's Carolyn See on those panels. She values what is most important about Southern California: its babble of voices. READ THE FULL INTERVIEW!

The Santa Monica Mirror's Anne Kelly-Saxenmeyer's Story on Carolyn See:

Seeing the Literary Life
Anne Kelly-Saxenmeyer
Mirror Contributing Writer

With a little creativity, Carolyn See’s small office in the English department at UCLA can accommodate about ten writing and literature students. During her weekly office hours when school is in session, they crowd in, taking chairs from a stack she keeps in the corner, beside bookcases that house a small sample of her and John Espey’s rare book collections.

Graduates drop by to visit and get a free shot of inspiration. Current students show up with leftover bits of class discussion or to argue about some assignment See has forced upon them. (“Are you serious about the charming notes? What’d’ya mean I have to go to a book signing?”) Chatty ones come to chat because, unlike most professors, See will regard the funny anecdote of your kleptomaniac uncle as perfectly relevant to her class, and she’ll be happy to counter with a tale of her own. The quiet ones, whom I was among during the time I studied with See, come to listen and soak up the possibilities, and to ask a few questions jotted down in advance.
 
  It was in See’s creative writing class and office hours that I discovered “why I want to write,” but I also learned the practical steps that would get me in print for the first time, things like how to “send something out.” (“Your name and address should go in the upper-left-hand corner...,” “Be sure to put numbers and your name on all the pages, since editors are disorganized.”) Read the FULL STORY.

August, 2002

Making a Literary Life enjoys rave reviews! --> Read them now