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Roberta Allen
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The Playful Way to Serious Writing
Drawing on extensive experience in teaching creative writing and a lifetime of free artistic expression, Roberta Allen, novelist, short story writer, and author of "Fast Fiction, " has created a unique book of writing exercises packed with hundreds of verbal directives and visual cues.
The Princess of Herself
Fiction. Short Stories. With dark humor, the recurring characters in Roberta Allen's stories see themselves and others through distorting mirrors. The pain of never quite connecting is thrown into shadow as they go about their everyday lives and try to recapture their youth.
The Daughter
Fiction. In these short short stories, Roberta Allen shadows images of deepening loss and confusion as memory overtakes a fleeing expatriate. No matter where you run, you can't hide from yourself. "Snapshots of the ineffable. In disquieting landscapes often distorted by the gaze of the other, Roberta Allen manages to tell with the language of subtlety the most poignant of stories"—Luisa Valenzuela.
Amazon Dream
If there's an opposite to swashbuckling, Roberta Allen's exploration of Peru's Amazon is it. Sensitive and in no hurry, she learns the ways of the jungle, the river, and the people, despite her occasional fear and discomfort as an unmarried American...
The Dreaming Girl
The dreaming girl is "a traveler who has a brief affair with a man known only as the German. ... Her imagined world becomes as real as the jungles of Belize where, in her fantasies, she denies the otherness of the German."--Cover.
Examined Lives
Gretchen Richard was a vivacious, competent woman who moved to Chicago on her twentieth birthday and began her rise in the hospitality industry. In her off hours, she devoured the nightlife with a string of young swain who wanted to marry her. But in 1950 after she had already become a wife and mother, everything changed for Gretchen when Dr. Walter Freeman pronounced her a paranoid schizophrenic on a Friday and performed a lobotomy the following Monday, robbing her of her drive and sparkle forever. In a compelling memoir and family history, Roberta Reb Allen shares a fascinating glimpse into her mother, Gretchen’s, journey before, during, and after the lobotomy as she was adjudged insane ...
The Playful Way to Knowing Yourself
With an eye toward building self-awareness, Allen employs her signature combination of verbal directives and visual cues in a dynamic workbook that prompts readers to look at themselves from many different angles and perspectives. 78 halftones. Consumable.
Fast Fiction
Set a timer for five minutes, select one of the more than 300 "prompts" at random, then immediately start writing and don't stop until time is up. The rules of Fast Fiction are simple; the results, liberating. By telling you what to write about ("write a story about a coward", "...warmth", or "...a whisper"), the timed exercises focus all your energies on the telling. By imposing a deadline, they force you to write spontaneously, bypassing the inner critic and allowing your voice - as well as surprising images and associations - to emerge on the page. Step by step, Allen shows how to turn your five-minute writings into short short stories - intense fictions that use language with power and p...
Recipe Retrospective
The history of women simmers away on the back burner of time-largely forgotten. Some foremothers left lingering traces in treasured recipes passed down from generation to generation but not mine. My great-grandmothers' kitchen chronicles can never be retrieved. My grandmothers-one gone twenty-two years before my birth, one by the time I reached two-are nearly as ephemeral. Preserving and cherishing keepsakes was not in my mother's repertoire. What remains is the merest wisp of what was or might have been. For the generation of women born just after World War II The Recipe Retrospective has captured in time and preserved what otherwise might have once again been lost. Roberta Allen is currently auditioning a bunch of recipes that feature batches of bacon as the main ingredient in her Oak Bay, Canada kitchen. If heaven is personalized, hers includes a celestial kitchen with more than manna on the menu.
