Gordon Haber

It was a very tough year for all of us, what with the continuing political, social, and epidemiological upheavals. Here is what I managed to get off my desk anyway:

Fiction

• My short story, Winter Break, 1986, about family responsibility and the pickle business, was published in Scud.
• The First Hard Fight, a short story about the Korean War, was in Cagibi.
• I did a residency at Craigardan in the beautiful Adirondacks working on my Untitled Korean War Novel™. (Pic above was my workspace.)

Journalism

• I did some reporting for Healthline on one happy outcome of the pandemic—fathers getting more time with their children.
• I wrote an opinion piece for The Forward contextualizing JK Rowling’s goblins as a trope in British literature (we’re all tired of the word “trope,” but here I think it’s valid).

So while the above output may seem small, I’m giving myself a “W” for 2022 in that I managed to publish while working full-time and being (mostly) present for my family and pushing forward on a novel draft after promising myself I’d never try another book-length manuscript again.

Hoping we all have an easier time, in writing and in life, in 2023.