News, Events & Classes
NEWS:
A new story of mine, "The Divide," part of my series of Holocaust-Houston stories inspired by old movies, was runner up in a Narrative magazine contest and will be available online in the spring. An earlier story was in Tikkun.
CLASSES:
6-8:30 pm Thursdays, January 13-March 3, 2022. Class: Basic Creative Writing. ZOOM through University of Chicago Graham School
PAST:
7pm, Wednesday, January 26, 2022. FREE Zoom Workshop, "How Short Pieces Can Build a Memoir: Getting Started," brought to you by Park Ridge (IL) Public Library ***List of related books is below and at bottom of Resources page; on that page, you can respond with titles I've missed.***
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Memoirs and essay collections written in fragments and small stories:
Shifting the Silence, Etel Adnan
Of Colour, Katherine Agyman Agard
Companion to an Untold Story, Marcia Aldrich
Two or Three Things I Know for Sure, Dorothy Allison
Berlin Childhood around 1900, Walter Benjamin
Notes from No-Man's Land; Having and Being Had, Eula Biss
The Book of Imaginary Beings, Jorge Luis Borges
I Remember, Joe Brainard
Decreation (multi genre), Anne Carson
No Relation, Paula Carter
The Crying Book, Heather Christle
On the Home Front, Mary Jo Clark as told to Jack Clark
Paris Vagabond, Jean-Paul Clebert
The Devil Never Sleeps, Andrei Codrescu
The Memory of Fire Trilogy: Genesis, Faces and Masks, and Century of the Wind; Eduardo Galeano
Heating and Cooling, Beth Ann Fennelly
Presentimiento: A Life in Dreams, Harrison Candelaria Fletcher
Little Labors, Rivka Ricki Galchen
Colored People: A Memoir, Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
Woman and Nature, Susan Griffin
Still Life With a Bridle, Zbigniew Herbert
I Remember King Kong (The Boxer), Denis Hirson
A Bestiary, Lily Hoang
The Book of Resemblances; The Book of Margins; Edmond Jabes
Trespasses, Lacy Johnson
The Folded Clock: A Diary, Heidi Julavits
Wife/Daughter/Self: A Memoir in Essays, Beth Kephart
The Periodic Table, Primo Levi
Dear Friend, from My Life I Write to You in Your Life, Yiyun Li
Later: My Life at the Edge of the World, Paul Lisicky
Selected Cronicas, Clarice Lispector
Sidewalks, Valeria Luiselli
Socialist Realism, Trisha Low
300 Arguments, Sarah Manguso
How to Stop Time, Ann Marlowe
A Leak in the Heart, Faye Moskowitz
Bluets; Argonauts; Maggie Nelson
I Remember, Georges Perec
Citizen: An American Lyric, Claudia Rankine
Intimate: An American Photo Album, Paisley Rekdal
Late Migrations, Margaret Renkl
Encyclopedia of an Ordinary Life, Amy Krouse Rosenthal
100 Essays I Don't Have Time to Write, Sarah Ruhl
Sex Talks to Girls, Maureen Seaton
Unbearable Splendor, Sun Yung Shin
A Postcard Memoir, Lawrence Sutin
A Three Dog Life; Safekeeping: Some True Stories from a Life, Abigail Thomas
FIve Plots, Erica Trabold
My Life as a Foreign Country, Brian Turner
Micrograms, Nicole Walker
The Suicide Index: Putting My Father's Death in Order, Joan Wickersham