Books and Brews Episode #38: Linda Wisniewski

Books and Brews Podcast

Linda C. Wisniewski is a former librarian who shares an empty nest with her retired scientist husband in Doylestown, PA. Linda teaches memoir workshops and produces webinars for the Pearl S. Buck Writing Center. She was born in Amsterdam, New York and is a graduate of SUNY at Buffalo and the library school at Villanova University. Her work includes fiction, memoir and personal essays and has been published in numerous literary magazines and anthologies both print and online. Her credits include publications as diverse as the Philadelphia Inquirer, Massage, The Quilter, the Christian Science Monitor, gravel and Foliate Oak. Linda worked as a reporter and columnist for the Bucks County Women’s Journal and the Bucks County Herald. She has won fiction and essay contests from the Wild River Review, the Pearl S. Buck Writing Center, Mom Writers Literary Magazine, and the Story Circle Network and her work has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize. Linda’s memoir, Off Kilter: A Woman’s Journey to Peace with Scoliosis, Her Mother and Her Polish Heritage was published in 2008 by Pearlsong Press. Her novel, Where the Stork Flies, was published in 2021 by Sand Hill Review Press. www.lindawis.com.

Linda's Readings:

• Meeting Regina – 16:11
• Seeking a Way Back Through Time – 29:27
• Kat in Regina's Time – 42:59

Michael’s Beer Pairings:

• My. Grodz., Fair State Brewing Cooperative (paired to Meeting Regina) – 10:53
• Mysterious Black Madonna, Ambrose Cellars (paired to Seeking a Way Back Through Time) – 24:57
• Saison d’Epeautre, La Brasserie de Blaugies (paired to Kat in Regina’s Time) – 40:35

Interview Highlights:

• How Polish ancestry and the family tree led to a book different from expected – 22:15
• The stork in Polish folklore – 27:21
• The significance of the Mermaid – 34:04
• Women then and now: Whose life was harder? – 35:39
• Putting our lives into fiction--deliberate or not? – 47:48
• Seeing our lives through an image as metaphor – 53:22

COMING NEXT MONTH: Loretta Livingstone, time travel author

UPCOMING EVENTS:

• Gabriel's Horn is accepting submissions for its anthology
• Release of Saint in the Cellar by Laura Vosika and Chris R. Powell

Our theme music is from www.bensound.com.