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June 5, 2011 — Aspen Summer Words, memoirs, reading

I’m going back to Aspen this year and the pre-workshop requirement is reading a stack of memoirs. While I’m an avid reader, it’s demanding a pretty quick clip to get these read before June 19. Since this limits my blogging time, I thought I’d share my reading list with you.

· Susan Cheever, Home Before Dark and Note Found in a Bottle
· Frank Conroy, Stop Time
· Erica Jong, Fear of Fifty
· Mary Karr, Lit: A Memoir
· Mary McCarthy, Memories of a Catholic Girlhood and Intellectual Memoirs
· Frank McCourt, Angela’s Ashes

I had already read a few of these, but some titles are new to me. What about you?

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Writing Reading Retreat: Memoir | a.k.a writer reblogged this and added:

[...] 12, 2011 — Books, memoir, Writing For almost three weeks prior to Aspen Summer Words 2011, I had my nose in a book. When I arrived at the writing retreat, many of my fellow students compared it to college days: [...]