I’m sorry I’ve been quiet the last week or so. Life has gotten in the way of blogging (and writing in general). Hopefully I’ll be able to return to my computer with new vigor when I’m back home. But right now I’m in Iowa City at NonfictioNOW, soaking up as much as I can.
I love writing conferences. I love to listen to other writers’ perspectives on form and narrative, voice and time. I love to walk away with new insights on how to frame my own work and where it fits within the genre of creative nonfiction (though over-thinking the latter can paralyze me, so I try not to think about it too much).
I’ll post more about the conference next week after I’ve had a chance to reflect and digest. Until then, I’ll take notes and try not to freeze my butt off. (I forgot my warm coat on the porch in Minneapolis, and it is COLD here.)
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works (and authors) discussed
- harper's a double life
- meadows' mothers and daughters
- huber's cover me
- mccracken's an exact replica
- gwartney's live through this
- rough's carrier
- ledger's remedies
- melin's by heart
- howe's "hurry"
- vogl's lost and found
- edelman's the possibility of everything
- alexander's antebellum dream book
- forman's this lovely life
- buchanan's and peskowitz's double-daring book
- evans' and grant's mama phd
- kamata's love you to pieces
- schumacher's black box
- herman's the middle of everything
- laferle's writing home
- yezierska's bread givers
- bass' "after our daughter's wedding"
- schumacher's "support group"
- wolfson's moonrise, the memoir
- trueblood's a baby lottery
- kupfer's before and after zachariah
- zarin's an enlarged heart
- beard's fourth state
- margulis' bonding book for dads
- groneberg's road map
- cooper, paley and hassler
- baxter's the soul thief
- garrison, again
- kamata's losing kei
- nemirovsky's suite francaise
- kamata's the sound and the worry
- the daring book for girls
- mueller's alive together
- beals' warriors don't cry
- fennelly's tender hooks
- howe's what the living do
- without a map
- ito's "samuel"
- kamata's "you're so lucky
- aboulela's the translator
- the allergy diaries and darkroom
- kamata's "multiple choices"
- deborah garrison, 2nd child
- waiting for birdy
- keenan's "good dreams or milk"
- mary oliver
- sleeping with one eye open
- the light of evening
- anne lamott
- wolfson's "moonrise"
- kephart's slant of sun, still love
- peskowitz - "cheerleader"
- rich's of woman born
- gwendolyn brooks, selected poems
- past due
- sharon olds
- snow flower and the secret fan
- mothers: 20 stories of contemporary motherhood
- "poltergeists"
- hampl's "memory and imagination"
- buchanan's "mother love"
- one small boat
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2 comments:
Oh. I wish I had known you were going to attend. I might have tried to make it for Saturday ... UIowa is a beautiful campus -- hope you're enjoying it.
Kate I'm so jealous - I LOVE Iowa City - spent a fantastic 4 years of my life there and I have the calf muscles to prove it. (hilly)
Enjoy your time there, ICIA has great creative energy! It does get cold, no doubt. What I would do if I were you: Hang out at Prairie Lights bookstore, poke around the pedestrian mall - eat chips and salsa @ Mickeys, take a stroll by the river and look at all of the ginkgo trees turning yellow, have breakfast at the Hamburg Inn, and go to a cute little stationary store called RSVP on Linn St. and the owner (Niki) that Kay says hi! That's what I would do. Enjoy!
:)
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