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Lidia Yuknavitch

    Dora-A-Headcase-Lidia-Yuknavitch Buy Now
    • ISBN 9780983477570
    • 240 Pages •5.5 x 9"
    • $16.95

    The Creation of a Girl

    09/04/2012

    I have been waiting for Lidia Yuknavitch’s novel Dora: A Headcase since reading her memoir The Chronology of Water last year. In the memoir, Yuknavitch traces her journey from an abusive childhood and a troubled young adulthood to a middle age of acceptance, but above all, she rewrites what it means to be a woman…

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    Teow Lim Goh lives in Boulder, Colorado. Her work has appeared in The Rumpus and Pilgrimage Magazine.
    TLP Chronology of Water Buy Now
    • ISBN 9780979018831
    • 268 Pages •5.5 x 9"
    • $15.95

    Chapter 20: A Happy Childhood

    07/07/2011

    Splattering finger paint across the carpet of my bedroom, laughing as the colors morphed into an ugly green; regretting this after my easel was taken from me and stored in our attic. Crashing my childhood bicycle into a parked car; never wanting to get on a four-wheeled vehicle again. My father hovering over my curled-up…

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    Mark Cugini got chu open. The managing editor of Big Lucks, his work has appeared or is forthcoming in NOÖ, Everyday Genius, Stymie, Petrichor Machine and others. He curates the Three Tents Reading Series in Washington, DC.
    TLP Chronology of Water Buy Now
    • ISBN 9780979018831
    • 268 Pages •5.5 x 9"
    • $15.95

    Chapter 19: The Less Than Merry Pranksters

    07/06/2011

    I suppose you could call me an Oregon Writer. I live a good five minutes from the U of O campus, although I never studied at U of O. There is a bronze statue of Ken Kesey reading to children in downtown Eugene, where I live, where this particular chapter of The Chronology of Water takes place. The…

    Gabriel Boyer
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    Gabriel Boyer is editor-in-chief and co-founder of Mutable Sound, a publishing company and record label. He currently lives in Eugene, OR.
    TLP Chronology of Water Buy Now
    • ISBN 9780979018831
    • 268 Pages •5.5 x 9"
    • $15.95

    Chapter 18: How To Ride a Bike

    07/05/2011

    It’s fitting that yesterday we talked about fathers and Lidia’s attempt to humanize hers, because today’s chapter deals with a pivotal moment in their relationship. After yesterday’s chapter, in which Lidia unpeels the layers of her father’s story (his career, his time as an artist, his service in the war, and his own absent father),…

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    Emily Lackey is a student at the Bread Loaf School of English and blogs at A Word For Everything.
    TLP Chronology of Water Buy Now
    • ISBN 9780979018831
    • 268 Pages •5.5 x 9"
    • $15.95

    Chapter 16: Swimming with Amateurs

    06/30/2011

    It says a lot for an author when, after a week of eighteen-hour days spent reading and analyzing literature, I choose (as in can’t put down) to read her book instead of paint my nails and watch Clueless as planned. I picked up Lidia’s book last Friday to get a feel for the text and…

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    Emily Lackey is a student at the Bread Loaf School of English and blogs at A Word For Everything.
    TLP Chronology of Water Buy Now
    • ISBN 9780979018831
    • 268 Pages •5.5 x 9"
    • $15.95

    Chapter 15: Baptismal

    06/29/2011

    Have you seen the book trailer for Lidia Yuknavitch’s The Chronology of Water? I’d like to discuss it today because it is so closely tied to Chapter 15: Baptismal. The words you hear Lidia reading as you watch the trailer are taken from this particular chapter, but it is worth noting that Lidia changes a lot…

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    Dave K. is a writer, graphic designer, and A/V technician who lives in Baltimore. When he's not writing, Dave is a brown dwarf substar located 28.6 light-years from Earth, in the constellation Pisces.
    TLP Chronology of Water Buy Now
    • ISBN 9780979018831
    • 268 Pages •5.5 x 9"
    • $15.95

    An Interview with Lidia Yuknavitch

    06/02/2011

    1. WHO IS LIDIA YUKNAVITCH? MOLLY GAUDRY: Hi Lidia, thank you for allowing me to showcase your incredible memoir, The Chronology of Water, as one of The Lit Pub’s inaugural Book of the Month features. I think the first thing a lot of readers would like to know is: Who is Lidia Yuknavitch? Why did…

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    Molly Gaudry is the author of We Take Me Apart, which was a finalist for the Asian American Literary Awards and shortlisted for the 2011 PEN/Joyce Osterweil. She is the founder of The Lit Pub.