By the time she was eleven, the house was deep in old-age quiet. She had tender breasts already and my God, what looked like hips, said the Shapiro aunts, turning her this way and that in the kitchen. Her mother and the aunts kept her well-surrounded: no dark fact could break into this picture, dirty it up or confuse it. But it was 1936, and her father's store was in trouble, and something else was wrong. His eyesight was failing,
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—Marjorie Sandor, from Portrait of My Mother, Who Posed Nude in Wartime

Lia Purpura is interviewed in Orion.

The Lambda Literary Foundation has awarded Brian Leung its Outstanding Mid-Career Novelist Prize.

T Fleischmann's Syzygy, Beauty is reviewed in the Star Tribune.

05-19-2012
Small Fires

Anne Braden Institute for Social Justice, 2nd Floor Ekstrom Library Belknap Campus University of Louisville 2301 S. Third Street Louisville, KY 40292
2:00 pm Kentucky Women's Book Festival Afternoon session: “Shifting the Gaze: From the Retrospective Memoir to the Coming of Age Narrative”


U of L Women's Center
502.852.8976
http://louisville.edu/womenscenter/kwbf

The Children
by Paula Bohince

The Children examines the ache and balm of nostalgia; nature's cycles of brideliness, decay, and rebirth; and the beauty that is the after ... [read more]

Syzygy, Beauty
by T Fleischmann

The word “syzygy” refers at once to the alignment of celestial bodies in astronomy, repeating relationships in mathematics, and male/female pai ... [read more]

The 6.5 Practices of Moderately Successful Poets: A Self-Help Memoir
by Jeffrey Skinner

A private eye turned moderately successful poet leads readers on a satiric, hopeful tour of how to make a life in the arts, while still having a li ... [read more]

Something in My Eye
by Michael Jeffrey Lee

Michael Jeffrey Lee's stories are bizarre and smart and stilted, like dystopic fables told by a redneck Samuel Beckett. Outcasts hunker under brid ... [read more]

Rough Likeness
by Lia Purpura

Lia Purpura's essays are full of joy in the act of intense observation; they're also deliciously subversive and alert to the ways language gets l ... [read more]

Small Fires
by Julie Marie Wade

This is a daughter’s story. In Small Fires, Julie Marie Wade recreates the landscape of her childhood with a lacemaker’s care, then t ... [read more]

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