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B. Lynn Goodwin's avatar

Insightful. Thanks for sharing this.

T J Elliott's avatar

Kudos to you on your reaction to that final comment by 'the poet and scholar' (Ohh, dear POET AND SCHOLAR!!!) Jeff Dolven,

"this very strange thing, which is to make his absolute embeddedness in, and commitment to, and fear for, and love of his family into art.” Okay...

So, One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez?

So much of Dickens

Ann Patchett?

To the Lighthouse?

Austen? Salinger with Franny and Zooey, Raise High, etc?

TOLSTOY????

That sound you hear is my mind boggling. Thanks for the provocation

Natural Causes's avatar

"That sound you hear is my mind boggling" is going to live rent free in my head from now on!

Terri Lewis's avatar

I am actually going to be working with seniors about writing their autobiographies. I'll get the book - it's a different approach than I was envisioning. And boo on Vulture. Looking forward to meeting you next week.

Ashley Honeysett's avatar

I'm looking forward to hearing about that, Terri!