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Richard Jeffrey Newman

Richard Jeffrey Newman

I write about things that matter to make connections that matter. I help writers and professionals of many kinds do the same. That's why my newsletter is called It All Connects.
For My Son, A Kind Of Prayer

For My Son, A Kind Of Prayer

"With passionate emotional and even spiritual attention, Richard Jeffrey Newman captures the primal love between father and son." —Roger Sedarat, author of Dear Regime: Letters to the Islamic Republic
The Teller of Tales: Stories from Ferdowsi's Shahnameh

The Teller of Tales: Stories from Ferdowsi's Shahnameh

"Newman's excellent translation…open[s] a window on a literary work so embedded in the collective Persian consciousness that it seems a part of the daily life of every Iranian." —Iraj Anvar, translator of Say Nothing: Poems of Jalal al-Din Rumi and Divan-i-Shams-I Tabriz: Forty-eight Ghazals
Four By Four #21

Four By Four #21

Four things to read, four things to see, four things to listen to, and four things about me
Selections from Saadi's Bustan

Selections from Saadi's Bustan

"...it is fortunate that Richard Jeffrey Newman has undertaken this fine and engaging translation of Saadi's Bustan for English readers." —John Moyne, author of A Bird in The Garden of Angels: A Life and Times and An Anthology of Rumi
Four By Four #20

Four By Four #20

Four things to read, four things to see, four things to listen to, and four things about me
Selections from Saadi's Gulistan

Selections from Saadi's Gulistan

“I will write a book to instruct and amuse the people, a gulistan, a rose garden, whose petals will not fall away at the touch of autumn’s wind, and in which it will always be spring, immune to the passing of time.” —Saadi of Shiraz
Four By Four #19

Four By Four #19

Four things to read, four things to see, four things to listen to, and four things about me
Four By Four #18 - National Poetry Month

Four By Four #18 - National Poetry Month

Four things to read, four things to see, four things to listen to, and four things about me
Four By Four #17

Four By Four #17

Four things to read, four things to see, four things to listen to, and four things about me
Four By Four #16A - Norouz Edition (Corrected)

Four By Four #16A - Norouz Edition (Corrected)

Four things to read, four things to see, four things to listen to, and four things about me
Four By Four #16 - Norouz Edition

Four By Four #16 - Norouz Edition

Four things to read, four things to see, four things to listen to, and four things about me
Four By Four #15

Four By Four #15

Four things to read, four things to see, four things to listen to, and four things about me