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Eve Kushner is a freelance writer in Berkeley, California. Eve has published two books and 314 articles in 35 markets. (Writers are like baseball fans with their love of statistics!) To learn about her background, see About Eve.
Books
Eve's 2009 book, Crazy for Kanji: A Student's Guide to the Wonderful World of Japanese Characters, is available for purchase on Amazon. You'll find lots of information about the book here, including press.
Her first book, Experiencing Abortion: A Weaving of Women's Words, came out in 1997 from Harrington Park Press (which Taylor and Francis has since acquired) and is also available on Amazon. Ten years later, Experiencing Abortion received a mention in Newsweek!
Current Focus: Joy o' Kanji
From 2007 through 2010, Eve wrote the blog Kanji Curiosity for JapanesePod101.com. She is now focusing on an exciting new project, Joy o' Kanji. She will write an essay about each of the Joyo kanji, the characters needed for daily use in Japan.
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These essays will give readers a full understanding of each character. Paying subscribers will soon be able to download these essays from a website. The essays will be on PDFs that will also feature wonderful photos of kanji.
More details here.
Because Joy o' Kanji is all-consuming, Eve is not accepting any new freelance work.
However, Eve will continue to write monthly articles for the San Francisco Chronicle on fun things to do with kids. Those articles appear in the "Family" section of "96 Hours," which is the Chronicle's guide to weekend events.
What's New
Summer 2010
My June 24 article for the San Francisco Chronicle was about a San Francisco event with the author of the best-selling book Geek Dad.
My Q&A with novelist Wendy Tokunaga appeared on the Chin Music Press blog.
The May issue of the Berkeley Monthly had my piece on a very inspiring Berkeley program in which formerly down-and-out people serve as "ambassadors," helping others in need.
The final Kanji Curiosity blog for JapanesePod101.com came out on April 30. A very sad but necessary change so that I can focus on my new project, Joy o' Kanji.
On April 27, I appeared on NPR's program "The World in Words," speaking with host Patrick Cox about five unusual kanji compounds. Our segment (called "Eating Sideways") starts at 19:05 and continues for nearly nine minutes, finishing off the podcast. Here's the accompanying blog post.
A Canadian TV show interviewed me about abortion issues! The segment will air in the fall or next spring. Back in 1999, I wrote an article on abortion in Hollywood movies. Somehow, that article keeps coming to the forefront. In addition to landing me the TV interview and the Newsweek article of 2008, this article got a prominent mention in a January 2010 article on Gender Across Borders.
Past Writing
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- People with fascinating passions and visions
- Innovative and environmentally sensitive architecture
- Reproductive issues
- Movies
- Writing technique
- Personal experiences
- Food
Sample Articles on This Site
- "The Way of Kanji" The East Bay Monthly published Eve's essay on kanji as her path to serenity. You can download this essay as a PDF.
- "The Greater Goods: East Bay Companies Live by the Triple Bottom Line: Profits, the Planet and People" This feature story about an inspiring new sector of the economy ran in the East Bay Monthly. Don't miss the five profiles posted on their own pages. (See the red links on the right-hand side of the main page.) The business world was uncharted territory for Eve, but the article fit with her longtime interest in profiling people with passions, visions, and missions. Susan H. Mac Cormac's InSight magazine article "The Emergence of New Corporate Forms" references "The Greater Goods."
- "Building Blocks: Coordinating Contractors and Other Disasters" This two-parter ran on the cover of the San Francisco Chronicle's "Home & Garden" section in November 2003. It has attracted more attention than perhaps anything else Eve has written. Don't miss Part Two, which is posted on its own page.
- "Life Ahead of the Curve" A profile of visionary architect Dan Liebermann, whose houses abound with curves and salvaged materials. This ran on the cover of the San Francisco Chronicle's "Home & Garden" section in July 2003. Don't miss the accompanying sidebar about a colony Liebermann has built.
- "Artist Loves Chanciness" A profile of papermaker Linda Lemon, who lets randomness control her artistic process. This ran inside the San Francisco Chronicle's regional section in May 2002.
- "Go Forth and Multiply: Abortion in Hollywood Movies of the '90s" This article originally appeared in Bitch: Feminist Response to Pop Culture and was reprinted in the online magazine Bright Lights Film Journal. That's where the article link will take you. The article has also been reprinted in ProQuest Information and Learning, an educational database. In spring 2006, the article was recommended as side reading in a Rutgers University course, "Current Moral and Social Issues." In summer 2007, the article was quoted extensively in a piece by the Alliance of Women Film Journalists. After a Newsweek editor saw the article, she interviewed Eve and quoted her in a December 2007 article about the movie Juno. Finally, the article played a prominent role in a January 2010 article on Gender Across Borders.
- "Beagleman" This has to do with Eve's dog, her husband, and a man they met every night for years. The piece appeared in the East Bay Monthly.
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