Michelle Herman

The Harmony Project

mherman — Thu, 03 May 2012 19:30:04 +0000

Watch and listen!

Stories We Tell Ourselves

mherman — Sat, 07 Apr 2012 15:05:14 +0000

New book due out in spring 2013!

Wishing you a harmonious holiday…or two

mherman — Fri, 23 Dec 2011 19:14:53 +0000

The Harmony Project wishes you all the best, in the best way we know. Let us serenade you.

I’ve Got My Love to Keep Me Warm

mherman — Wed, 21 Dec 2011 18:27:46 +0000

My local musical theater debut–at Columbus’s new venue for musical theater, the Short North Stage, housed in the old Garden Theater (formerly a burlesque house) on North High Street. I’ve written so much, these last few years, about singing, I decided it was time to put my money where my mouth is (or my mouth where my money is?). On December 17, 2011, at a concert called Songs of the Season, I took my turn among the real singers (read more…)

Harmony Project

mherman — Mon, 31 Oct 2011 15:08:21 +0000

Here in Columbus, Ohio, where I live, I sing with a choir that isn’t just a choir: it’s a grassroots community service group. If you’re going to be in Central Ohio in the spring or summer, you can catch us in concert with the Columbus Jazz Orchestra, May 18 and 19, 8PM at the Lincoln Theater; at “200 Years/200 Voices” (when we expand to 200 voices in honor of the Columbus Bicentennial), July 18 and 19, 7:30 PM (read more…)

Why Nonfiction?

mherman — Tue, 13 Sep 2011 18:24:48 +0000

Tamara Kaye Sellman asked; I answered. This essay is part of a series posted by Sellman on her blog, Writer’s Rainbow, about how the events of September 11, 2001, altered the writing lives of a number of contemporary American writers.

Dog – Excerpt

Josh — Wed, 20 Jul 2011 18:23:30 +0000

The dog, the dog, the dog—the dog had taken over her life.

But this was not necessarily a bad thing. Perhaps she had needed to have her life taken over.

This—a thought on the fly, as it were, as she raced along behind the selfsame dog, the ridiculously expensive leash pulled so taut between them that if she stopped running to keep up with him, she feared the dog would choke to death—made her laugh out loud, and in response (read more…)

“No Place Like Home”

Josh — Sun, 17 Jul 2011 20:25:08 +0000

A new essay, “No Place Like Home,” is in the fall 2011 issue of River Teeth.

Dream Life

Josh — Mon, 17 Jan 2011 21:09:08 +0000

Why do we dream? Why do we dream what we dream? Novelist and essayist Michelle Herman looks at dreams and dreaming every which way: from ancient dream interpretation to Freud, from the way birds dream to the way babies do, from Jung to contemporary sleep and dream scientists, from her own dreams to the dreams of everyone she knows.

Writer’s Talk Interview

Josh — Mon, 12 Jul 2010 14:07:38 +0000

An interview on Ohio Public Broadcasting’s Writer’s Talk with Doug Dangler.