Crash Course: Essays From Where Writing and Life Collide

✍ Scribed by Black, Robin

• Book ID: 108895241
• Publisher: Engine Books
• Year: 2016
• Tongue: en-US
• Weight: 324 KB
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN-13: 9781938126710

✦ Synopsis

Robin Black's path through loss and survival delivered her to the writer's life. Agoraphobia, the challenges of parenting a child with special needs, and the legacy of a formidable father all shaped that journey. In these deeply personal and instructive essays, the author of the internationally acclaimed If I loved you, I would tell you this and Life Drawing explores the making of art through the experiences of building a life. Engaging, challenging, and moving, Crash Course is full of insight into how to write--and why.

**From "Autumn, 1972, A Moment at Which I Became a Writer":
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I sense, even now, the reverberations of a kind of shattering of my foundation and a quick rebuild, a change at a molecular level of who I understood myself to be. No longer someone who could look at another person without wondering what their life was like, but someone with a new curiosity about what people's stories might actually be.

**Robin...