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Larry Woiwode in Sophie Kerr Reading Series
November 2000
Introductory remarks by Lit House Director Robert Mooney
Larry Woiwode's work has appeared in the Atlantic Monthly, GQ, Harpers, the New Yorker, the Paris Review, and many other publications, and his work has been translated into a dozen languages.
His books include What I'm Going to Do, I Think—a first novel of uncommon quality that won both the William Faulkner Foundation Award and "notable book award" from the American Library Association; Beyond the Bedroom Wall—one of the finest novels to appear in our contemporary literature, Poppa John; Born Brothers; and Indian Affairs. Of his collection of short stories Silent Passengers, the novelist Charles Johnson said that Woiwode's "masterful hand and generous vision transform our most evanescent and commonplace experiences into something akin to gold....they are stories that sharpen our way of seeing from one of America's finest prose stylists."
Mr. Woiwode has more recently focused his talent on the memoir, and this past summer published a book titled What I Think I Did—which is, among many other things, an account of living through the fiercest winter in North Dakota history in 1996.
He uses this 'season of survival' as a base from which to examine memory, and departs from the ferocious blizzards and ravenous cold to revisit ...his early days in New York in the 1960s, where his life as a writer began under the wise and generous mentorship of the great New Yorker editor William Maxwell.
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