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Meet Patricia Hampl
Club Book Meetings with Patricia Hampl
Thursday July, 8, 7 PMSouthdale Library, 7001 York Ave. S., Edina
Friday, July 9, 7 PM
Chaska Community Center, 1661 Park Ridge Drive, Chaska
Patricia Hampl is the author of five award-winning memoirs (A Romantic Education, Virgin Time, I Could Tell You Stories, and Blue Arabesque) and two collections of poetry. She has received fellowships from MacArthur, Guggenheim Foundation, Bush Foundation, National Endowment for the Arts (twice, in poetry and prose), and others. Four of her books have been named "Notable Books" of the year by The New York Times Book Review and her writing has appeared in many publications, including The New Yorker, Paris Review, The New York Times, Los Angeles Times, and Best American Short Stories. Hampl is Regents Professor and also McKnight Distinguished Professor at the University of Minnesota.
What do the critics say?
"A memoir for memoirists to admire -- with language that pierces." – Kirkus Starred Review
"Addictive...quietly stunning." - People
"Hampl is that rare writer who refuses to sentimentalize even those she loves most...The tensions in this novelistic masterpiece gather stitch by stitch, one ordinary but riveting anecdote after another, interwoven with dry comedy." - Newsday
"If anyone can restore the memoir to glory, it''s Patricia Hampl...Read Hampl and you will forget about Frey." - Chicago Tribune
"Patricia Hampl is the queen of memoir...Do the pieces Hampl gives us fit together to form a whole person? Yes! When will it end? Hopefully, never." - Los Angeles Times
"Hampl's childhood may have been ordinary by the standards of James Frey or Lauren Slater, but her talents as a writer render it far more meaningful, and resonant." - Chicago Tribune
"Better than any writer at work today, Hampl knows how to welcome and sustain her reader in what she calls, in one of many characteristic insights that grace this book, the 'fascinatingly indeterminate narrative space between fiction and documentary' that is memoir." - Alice Kaplan, author of French Lessons, The Collaborator, and The Interpreter
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