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Living in America

Living in America

December 14, 2015 · by Linda Strange · in USA

There are many things I could write about as the dark and confusing year of 2015 draws to its close,…

November Anniversaries

November Anniversaries

November 11, 2014 · by Linda Strange · in England, Germany, Russia, USA

Americans, who tend to shun both the specific and the historical, are today celebrating Veteran’s Day in one great, glorious…

They Flew Through The Air

They Flew Through The Air

June 13, 2014 · by Linda Strange · in USA

One of the things the new Common Core emphasizes is the ability to distinguish between serious and not-so-serious sources of…

Independence Days

Independence Days

July 4, 2012 · by Linda Strange · in Finland, Russia, Sweden, USA

Countries really don’t leave each other alone, do they? They are always bothering each other, invading, claiming sovereignty, imposing annoying…

Juneteenth

Juneteenth

June 6, 2012 · by Linda Strange · in Germany, USA

Juneteenth is an African-American holiday officially celebrated in 41 states of the United States. It commemorates the final abolition of…

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January 2023
I am delighted to announce that Glass Mountain Literary Magazine has published my short story Retention in their current issue. You can read the story here.
September 2022
Watch a video of me reading a live version of a blog about the Berlin Wall, The Wall I Knew.
July 2022
Watch a video of me reading a live version of my blog, The Last of the Best.
May 2022
I’m excited to announce three pieces of my writing have recently been published. What Ever Happened to Igor, an essay in Pangyrus, is about a study trip I took to Ukraine in 1985 with a group of Finns and Swedes. Igor was a young Ukrainian-Swedish man from Stockholm who was going to meet his father in Kyiv, a father he hadn’t seen in twenty years. Want to watch a video of me reading the essay? Click here. Will They Make it Home Again?, another essay in Pangyrus, explores the relationship between the images of World War Two childhood evacuations recorded in select works of European literature and the images of evacuation we now see on our television screens from Ukraine. Click here to watch the video.
Finally, The Longest Day, is a short story published in the 2022 Freshwater Literary Journal. It details the experience of a young non-English speaking Cape Verdean girl, Gee, on her first day in an American inner-city school. It is an account of Gee’s first encounter with her new ESL teacher and the safe space this teacher creates for Gee to express her true emotions. Watch a You Tube video of me speaking with Georbina DaRosa, the real-life inspiration for my story.

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