Jeff Schult

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About Jeff Schult
I've been a journalist for a long time. My first book, "Beauty from Afar," was published in June '06 by Stewart, Tabori & Chang of New York. The book is about the phenomenon of people traveling abroad for health care and cosmetic surgery, dental work and other procedures.
The first few chapters of BFA are online at beautyfromafar.com. I rarely write about medical travel any more but I'm pleased that the book wears its age well, all things considered.
More recently, I'm working on several book projects, including a fantasy and a darkly funny novel set against the backdrop of 9-11. I know ... sometimes, they all look like dragonflies.
You can follow me on Twitter at: https://twitter.com/jeff_schult
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Blog postMy best reading discovery so far of 2018, I think, is Claire North/Kate Griffin/Catherine Webb, whom I thank in particular for The Sudden Appearance of Hope and The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August. I thought they were brilliant and they inspired me as a writer. I expect I will read both of those books again.
I rarely discover writers when they first come to general acclaim. It takes a while. There are so many. Another not-so-newbie for whom I was late to the party is N.K. Jemisin.4 years ago Read more -
Blog postSo I thought of something that I, as a writer, can provide to everyone … and it is something that everyone needs, eventually, so why not now?
I am speaking, of course, of epitaphs. If you don’t have one, you should! Why wait until the last minute, or leave it until too late? You really want to trust your “loved ones” with something this important and permanent?
Mine is: “He went too far, and now he’s gone.” Pretty snappy, eh?
Of course, that’s not my only work sample.4 years ago Read more -
Blog postLet’s give this another try. I’m rebooting my virtual self. JeffSchult.com is going to be my true home on the web. I’m just getting moved in.
I’ll try to occasionally dance as though nobody’s watching … though I can’t promise to write as though no one is reading.
The “Writerly Snippets” part of this site, and that part only, posts via feed to my Amazon author page and to my Goodreads profile page. So if that’s how you got here: Hi.
The post Reimagining … first appeared4 years ago Read more -
Blog postThe “first” Robert Benchley was the one I thought I sort of knew, as much as you can know someone who died 11 years before you were born. He wrote brilliantly and hilariously for The New Yorker and Vanity Fair, won an Oscar and, by all accounts, acquitted himself with distinction at the Algonquin in New York. Up there with Dorothy Parker, et. al.
Among his more self-deprecating bons mots:
“It took me fifteen years to discover I had no talent for writing, but I couldn’t give it14 years ago Read more -
Blog postYep. There I am on page 127 of “Not Quite What I Was Planning: Six-Word Memoirs by Writers Famous and Obscure.”
Smith Magazine got the idea, see, from Hemingway, that one can say quite a lot in six words, which of course, one can, whether one is famous or obscure. Most of us would be the latter.
“After Harvard, had baby with crackhead,” Robin Templeton’s six words that lead off the book … well, those are pretty lively, huh?
It took me a few years to get my answer to th15 years ago Read more