Brenda Webster, Writer

For up-to-the-minute information on Brenda's projects and events, visit Brenda at www.redroom.com.

Recently Published Works


Vienna Triangle (2009)	Letter to My Mother - translation	The Beheading Game

Nominated for two 26th Annual 2007 Northern California Book Awards

Fiction: The Beheading Game by Brenda Webster
Translation: Letter to My Mother by Edith Bruck, translated by Brenda Webster

Brenda Webster is a freelance writer, critic, and translator and is president of PEN West. Most recently she has published a novel called Vienna Triangle, about a young woman named Kate who explores her historical connection to the development of Freudian theory and the early beginnings of psychoanalysis in a mystery rooted in the past but based on factual circumstances of Sigmund Freud and his contemporaries.

In 2006, she published a novel called The Beheading Game, about a gay New York theatre director's staging of "Gawain and the Green Knight" and how it intersects with his passionate love for a closeted younger man.

Brenda has also published a translation of Edith Bruck's Holocaust memoir/novel Letter to My Mother, written a memoir about what it was like to grow up in an intellectual and artistic Jewish family in post-World War II New York, as well as two other novels, literary criticisms of Yeats and Blake, and co-edited the journal of her mother, abstract expressionist painter Ethel Schwabacher.

Readings and Discussion Groups

Brenda is available by appointment for readings and discussion groups related to any of her titles. Reduced rates are offered for book clubs. For information on fees and schedule, contact Brenda at websterbrenda1@aol.com.

Links

(links to this site gratefully appreciated and reciprocated)

- redroom.com
- PEN American Center
- Persimmon Tree, an online literary magazine by women over sixty
- Independent Publishers Group
- 26th Annual Northern California Book Awards
- Zyzzyvaspeaks (by Howard Junker, Editor)
- Alsop Review