Replay: Andre Dubus III shares Five Things He's Learned about The Nature of Memory and Memoir
Check out the first five minutes of his recent class.
"In his long poem, 'Tell Life', the poet Fady Joudah writes: 'Memory shrinks…without forgetting.' This has certainly been my own experience with the highly fluid and subjective nature of human memory; no matter our respective ages, we seem to be made of our earlier selves the way an onion is a sphere of tightly adhered layers. The sixty-four year old me is writing you this while his forty year old self and his thirteen year old self and his twenty-six year old self also look on."
– Andre Dubus III, Five Things I’ve Learned about the Nature of Memory and Memoir
Andre has returned to Five Things I’ve Learned with a brand new class!
In Five Things I’ve Learned about the Nature of Memory and Memoir, Andre shares insights on the nature of memory and memoir writing. Emphasizing the importance of curiosity and the discovery process in writing, he guides participants in uncovering the layers of lived life one word at a time, drawing inspiration from his own experiences and the works of other memoirists.
Andre is the New York Times bestseller author of House of Sand and Fog, The Garden of Last Days, and his memoir, Townie. His novel Gone So Long, has been named on many “Best Books” lists, including The Boston Globe’s “Twenty Best Books of 2018.” Most recently he is the author of the novel Such Kindness, and the collection of personal essays, Ghost Dogs.
Andre has been a finalist for the National Book Award, and has been awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship, The National Magazine Award for Fiction, two Pushcart Prizes, and is a recipient of an American Academy of Arts and Letters Award in Literature. His books are published in over twenty-five languages, and he teaches full-time at the University of Massachusetts Lowell.
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