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Tag Archives: Alison Gazarek
BLOOMERS AT LARGE: Good News, Bad News, and Biography
by Kaulie Lewis
But a darker side of Wilder’s semi-autobiographical children’s series is revealed in the new version of her first work, Pioneer Girl . . . This restored autobiography includes details and stories judged too adult for the Little House books. Continue reading
Susannah B. Mintz: Men, Metaphors, and Match Dot Comedy
by Alison Gazarek
Climax and characterization helped frame them in a way that gave the story momentum, and depth, and meaning. I wasn’t just dating; I was making sense of these men, and our stories, and in turn, making sense of myself. Continue reading
Q&A with “Dana Hand”
Fiction is serious pretending, and works best if you have studied the terrain and become native to it, through memory and imagination. Continue reading
Deep Creek: On History, Fiction, and Truth
by Alison Gazarek
Historical fiction is a kind of “looking back,” but also an opportunity to reinvent, or to color the way the past is perceived. Similarly, nonfiction history books are, for better or worse, a kind of story-telling, colored (no matter how hard one tries to be impartial) by the teller. Continue reading
In Her Own Words: Laura Ingalls Wilder
“It is necessary that we dream now and then . . . but when once the dream is dreamed it is time to wake up and ‘get busy.’” Continue reading
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