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- Inaugural Katherine Anne Porter Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters -
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READING, WRITING & LEAVING HOME: LIFE ON THE PAGE
NOW AVAILABLE!
"Lynn Freed is a beautiful writer, dead-on brilliant, rich in humor, possessing a dark and comforting wisdom." —Anne Lamott
"Marvelous. I’ve never read another book like this. Lively, funny, at once a vivid and moving memoir and a collection of uncommonly sensible observations about writing." —Mark Childress
"Freed's voice is individual – funny, sharp, trenchant, and with a great intellectual and emotional range. She is especially witty and smart in this form.This is a wonderful collection." —Diane Johnson
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"To the tiny list of necessary books for people who aspire to the writing life -- "Mystery and Manners," by Flannery O'Connor, and "One Writer's Beginnings," by Eudora Welty -- must now be added "Reading, Writing, and Leaving Home." . . . (Freed) writes with acuity and honesty about herself and her family; the recollections of her pleasingly eccentric mother and father are among the many attractions of this book. But mainly it is about writing, and it is one of the best books on that complex, elusive subject to come my way in a long time."
—Jonathan Yardley, The Washington Post
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"This memoir of her formation as a writer is characterized by such virtuosity and rigor that the reader is tempted time and again to linger, admiring the view, retracing the shape of a sentence . . . Impervious to defeat, Freed has produced this book, and the reader is grateful."
—Holly Brubach in The New York Times Book Review
"Freed's best pieces serve as master classes in the art of getting it right. They make this collection something for every writer, published or aspiring, to befriend over a period of years, a generous source of heat, heart, energy and consolation , , , She's living proof that, contrary to the hackneyed adage, sometimes those who can do, teach."
—Jesse Berrett in The San Francisco Chronicle
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