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Harvesting History While Farming the Flats
Near the beginning of Harvesting History, a memoir of land and filmmaking and family, it is 1969, and Muriel Aggie Murch, a nurse, and her filmmaker husband Walter have moved north from Los Angeles, where Walter Murch had attended USC film school with a cadre of friends who […]
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Coloring Outside the Lines
Elizabeth Patterson creatively closes her life story using the voice of a jewelry armoire, escorting the reader drawer by drawer to examine some of the pieces tucked inside: awards, ribbons, pins, travel tokens, jewelry pieces made by her mother, and other assorted mementos symbolizing important moments from the […]
Categories: Memoir and Autobiography
Tags: Author of Color, Good Books, History, Race relations, Women's rights
Tags: Author of Color, Good Books, History, Race relations, Women's rights
London Sojourn: Rewriting Life After Retirement
Rebecca Knuth, author of London Sojourn: Rewriting Life After Retirement, lived a childhood in Anchorage, Alaska, immersed in books. The stories that most captured her imagination were set in London, and for an introverted child of educated but strict parents, such stories allowed her experiences beyond her own. […]
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An Interview with Mariam Pirbhai
The daughter of Pakistani immigrants, Pirbhai is Professor of English at Wilfrid Laurier University, where she teaches and specializes in postcolonial studies and creative writing. […]
