Cynthia Hoffman

Jul 31, 2024 | bloomberg.com | Phil Kuntz |Cedric Sam |Alexander McIntyre |Cynthia Hoffman

Methodology The Bloomberg Businessweek return-on-investment tool for business schools relies on a standard calculation for measuring financial success: profit relative to initial principal. Say you bought $10,000 worth of rutabaga futures and sold them 10 years later for $70,000. Your profit would be $60,000, and your net ROI would be $60,000 divided by $10,000 or 600%. To get an annualized average for that figure, we need to account for the principal’s compounding growth.

Feb 22, 2024 | thesunmagazine.org | Cynthia Hoffman

I confess that I had never listened to Metallica’s “Enter Sandman” all the way through until I read “The Beast in Your Head,” but that didn’t keep me from being drawn into Cynthia Marie Hoffman’s reflection on how the song informed her experience as a teenager with undiagnosed obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD). I admire the way she weaves the song through accounts of both childhood trauma and adult joy.

Feb 21, 2024 | time.com | Cynthia Hoffman

IdeasFebruary 21, 2024 7:00 AM ESTHoffman is the author of Exploding Head (Persea Books, 2024), Call Me When You Want to Talk about the Tombstones (Persea Books, 2018), Paper Doll Fetus (Persea Books, 2014), and Sightseer (Persea Books, 2011)It was the 1980s. Washington D.C. was being called the “murder capital” of America, and the nightly news in Northern Virginia where I grew up showed an onslaught of politics, gangs, drugs, and guns. The little television stacked on the microwave was always on.

Feb 10, 2024 | writersdigest.com | Cynthia Hoffman

I’m sitting at a picnic table surrounded by poet friends. We’ve come to talk about poetry and to listen while cubes of watermelon chill our tongues. Inevitably, the question of process comes up. Yes, we write poems, but how? Inevitably, I’m the odd one out. (How and Why to Write Poetry for Children.)How does the first draft come about? One says she starts with an image. Another says she starts with language. Everyone is nodding in agreement. Yes, images and language.

Feb 9, 2024 | newsbreak.com | Cynthia Hoffman

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