Julie M. Fenster
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My biography will soon be in this space.
With any luck, though, I will be too busy to
write it, and you will be too busy to read it.
Suffice to say that I have been writing
since I graduated from Colgate University
and was put in charge of the obituaries
for the Syracuse Post-Standard -- a great
job for a person who wants to dwell in the
realm of history.
With any luck, though, I will be too busy to
write it, and you will be too busy to read it.
Suffice to say that I have been writing
since I graduated from Colgate University
and was put in charge of the obituaries
for the Syracuse Post-Standard -- a great
job for a person who wants to dwell in the
realm of history.
To break into book
publishing, I took a job at
Automobile Quarterly in
Princeton, New Jersey. I
always had a weakness
for old cars and fast cars,
so the job was a pleasure.
After one year, the
company moved the
whole staff to Newport
Beach, California. We all
thought it was a great
tragedy.
Ha!
Eventually, I returned
from my life on the ocean,
though why I shall never
ever know, to Upstate
New York, where I now
live.
publishing, I took a job at
Automobile Quarterly in
Princeton, New Jersey. I
always had a weakness
for old cars and fast cars,
so the job was a pleasure.
After one year, the
company moved the
whole staff to Newport
Beach, California. We all
thought it was a great
tragedy.
Ha!
Eventually, I returned
from my life on the ocean,
though why I shall never
ever know, to Upstate
New York, where I now
live.
When I was four, my parents discovered that someone had cut the margins off the pages of a book
called Woodland Animals.
It happened to be my favorite book and so I was the last to be suspected. Yet I went forward and admitted
that I was the one who did it -- not from courage or integrity, I hasten to add. I was sure that when they
heard my explanation, I would be exonerated, if not thanked.
According to me, the white spaces on the page were a waste, like the rind on a cantaloupe. Cutting them
off left only the good part.
I wasn't exactly thanked. In fact, ever since the lecture I received then, I've never hurt a book in anyway,
never once thrown one out and never, what is more, neglected to wish a pox on the houses of all those
people who underline in ink as they read their books. Or the library's.
I changed my ways through the years, but not my mind. Woodland Animals was better without the margins.