Lynn Lauber’s Books
Lynn Lauber’s published books include:
Listen to Me: Writing Life into Meaning (2004)
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White Girls (1990; reissued 2002)
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21 Sugar Street (1994)
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About Listen to Me: Writing Life Into Meaning
Why write out of our lives? What can it do for us? How can sharing our stories connect us with others?
Novelist and essayist Lynn Lauber chronicles her journey as a writer and longtime teacher of creative writing workshops around the country. She explores how writing—both fiction and creative nonfiction—has served as a means of personal navigation, a healing and avenging force, and a way of calling up not only a lost daughter but also a lost self. Her own story serves as encouragement for others to produce their own personal narratives.
Based on Lauber’s popular personal writing workshop series, each chapter includes inventive writing exercises and prompts, practical devices for moving past writer’s blocks and self-censorship, and advice from Lauber’s students as well as renowned authors. Listen to Me expands on the wisdom of Natalie Goldberg’s Writing Down the Bones and Anne Lamott’s Bird by Bird, offering techniques and anecdotes in combination with honest and personal experience-sharing.
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Growing up in a small, racially segregated Ohio town provides the background and characters for the author’s collection of stories about love and self-discovery experienced on both sides of the tracks.
“Masterly variations on a theme of love tolerated, withheld, won and lost command us to believe in Union, a bona fide “dull spot” of universal interest.” ~ Publisher’s Weekly
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About 21 Sugar Street
The interweaving of voices marks a study of life in small-town America, where colorless, prejudiced lives can be affected by love, as the story of Loretta and Luther, an interracial couple who first appeared in White Girls, continues.
Lynn Lauber