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..to write or not to write an autobiography...
Eye and I
Will the Read Marilyn Monroe Please Step Forward?
"Mirror, Mirror, on the Wall" Picasso, 1932
a place for sharing ideas about the self writing about the self.
..a staggering genius...
..to write or not to write an autobiography...
Whose autobiography?
...running from and into the family...
Alfred Kazin
Inside History Now
Ironing out the wrinkles?
EGO SPEAKS
Eye and I
Looking for ...
Will the Read Marilyn Monroe Please Step Forward?
What We are Reading
- Dave Eggers "Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius
- Vladimir Nabokov "Speak Memory"
- Michael Ondaatje "Running in the Family"
- Mary McCarthy "Memories of a Catholic Girlhood"
- Katharine C. Black "Works in Progress"
- Jamaica Kincaid "The Autobiography of My Mother"
- Frederick Douglass, "My Narrative as a Slave"
- Edwidge Danticat "Brother, I'm Dying"
- Eavan Boland "Object Lessons"
- Alfred Kazin "A Walker in the City"
looking in the mirror
"Mirror, Mirror, on the Wall" Picasso, 1932
Welcome!
Welcome to a semester of conversations with each other about autobiography! Be sure to check in the night before the class meets the next day for postings & a chance to add your own two cents.
3 comments:
a good reality check, kim.
one hopes to change, eh?
ann page
My plan for high school changed just before coming to Colby-Sawyer College, and since then it has pretty much stayed the same. More about that during class
My response from class on 9/18:
I had a lot of plans in high school: elementary school teacher, vet for large cats in zoos (lions and tigers), architect, and finally nurse. I wanted to help people, and I wanted job security.
But I'm a germophobe... so that only lasted one semester of college. Then I decided I wanted to be an English major because I didn't know what I wanted to be in my professional life and I liked literature. Then I got a work study job at the library, and I remembered one of my earliest career goals from when I was just a little kid: librarian. And that's what I am today (okay, not quite, but I'm getting there), and I still will be helping people. I'll be helping by providing information, which I honestly feel is a very valuable service.
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