Short Story Archives - Joram Piatigorsky

What’s Compelling?

By Joram Piatigorsky|2020-03-30T08:38:38-04:00October 19th, 2017|Categories: Blog, Writing is how we explore our place in the world|Tags: Arnasungaaq, backstory in nonfiction, Baker Lake, Barnabas, building nonfiction scenes, compelling nonfiction, compelling writing, Creative Nonfiction, Giacometti, Igloolik, Inuit art, Judas Ullulaq Ooloolah, Lee Gutkind, Little Boy Juan, Renoir, Science, Short Story, Unusual scientific studies|0 Comments

As a scientist and author, I relate to the concept of Creative Nonfiction, since science is all about truth, and scientists strive to see the natural world creatively through a fresh lens, and a writer wants an audience. So I eagerly enrolled in a workshop on Creative Nonfiction taught by Lee Gutkind, acknowledged as founder [...]

Meeting Myself in my Memoir

By Joram Piatigorsky|2021-02-27T08:52:37-05:00August 31st, 2017|Categories: Blog, Writing is how we explore our place in the world|Tags: British Columbia, By his Bootstraps, Changing Identity, David Gerold, James Gleick, Jewish Upbringing, Los Angeles, Marquis de Laplace, Memoir writing, New Year, Pierre Simon, Robert Heinlein, Rosh Hashanah, Short Story, Star Trek, Time Travel, truth in fiction, William Faulkner|2 Comments

Near the end of my upcoming memoir on my life in science, I think back on my trip to Lilloet in Canada to visit Van, my high school friend, whom I hadn’t seen in some 60 years. Van lived an independent life, including many years in a commune off the grid in British Columbia. Despite [...]