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Preparing to Write Your First Memoir with Amanda Stern


Join Amanda Stern, author of the acclaimed memoir, Little Panic, as she introduces students to the tools you need to begin writing a memoir.

In the vein of bestselling memoirs about mental illness like Andrew Solomon’s Noonday Demon,, Sarah Hepola’s Blackout, and Daniel Smith’s Monkey Mind, comes a gorgeously immersive, immediately relatable, and brilliantly funny memoir about living life on the razor’s edge of panic.

“In this canny, insightful, novelistic memoir, Amanda Stern traces the indelible path her underlying anxiety has traced in a rich but often frustrated life. It’s a book about her emergence into and acceptance of mature identity, but it is also about the danger of love, the maze of social pressure, and the tension between childhood expectations and adult realities. Narrating with real poignance how every experience she’s had has been filtered through her psychic vulnerability, she achieves a symphony of complex fragilities and redeeming strengths.”―Andrew Solomon.

Her work has appeared in the New York Times; the New York Times Magazine; the New York Times Book Review; Filmmaker, The Believer, Salon, Blackbook, St. Ann’s Review, Post Road and others. Her personal essays have been included in several anthologies: Love is a Four Letter Word , The Marijuana Chronicles, Women in Clothes, the anthology A Velocity of Being edited by Maria Popova, and her Believer interview with Laurie Anderson was included in Confidence, or the Appearance of Confidence: The Best of the Believer Music Interviews, 2014.

Her first novel The Long Haul (Soft Skull Press) was published in 2003. Of her metaphors, the San Francisco Chronicle wrote, “they’re so fresh, they’re almost jarring.”

Tickets for this 4-hour intensive course are $124. Please register at
https://www.writerscenter.org/calendar/stern/

Event Location and Ticket Information

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Hudson Valley Writers’ Center
300 Riverside Drive
Sleepy Hollow, NY 10591
Handicap Accessible? Yes

Date: Sunday, July 21, 2019
Times: 12:30 pm - 4:30 pm

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- $124

Presenter: Hudson Valley Writers Center
Presenter Phone: 9143325953