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An Evening with Alix Kates Shulman: Fiction or Memoir--How to Choose

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Tuesday, September 09, 2014
7:00 pm - 8:30 pm
Alix Kates Shulman

Join author and activist Alix Kates Shulman who has explored the challenges of youth and midlife in her novels, and in her memoirs has probed the later stages in the ongoing drama of her generation of women. Shulman is the award-winning author of 3 memoirs including To Love What Is: A Marriage Transformed and 5 novels including the ground breaking Memoirs of an Ex-Prom Queen. Also the author of many personal essays and stories, Shulman will discuss her process of deciding whether to tell her story as fiction or as memoir, and will examine some of the quandaries, fears, and competing motives that come into play whenever she confronts this crucial choice. This program is co-sponsored by and will be held at the Durham County Library, 300 N. Roxboro St., Durham, NC.

Contact: Kelly Wooten