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By Sallie Morgan
Special to the Rappahannock News
On Friday, March 10, at 8 p.m, the Rappahannock Association for Arts and the Community (RAAC) welcomes author and National Public Radio commentator Marion Winik for a reading from and discussion of her latest book as part of RAAC’s Friday at the Library series.
Marion Winik has been called “pretty much a traveling party. A fabulous reader—those 15 years of NPR experience sure pay off —she has the crowd in the palm of her hand as she ranges between the hilarious and the heartbreaking.”
Known to millions from NPR’s All Things Considered, and perhaps best known in these parts as Joyce Abell’s daughter-in-law, critically acclaimed author Marion Winik comes from a generation that changed the rules about honesty in art, media and life. Winik, a self-revealing memoirist, was an integral part of a cultural trend against shame and for truth which is now seen everywhere from confessional talk shows and documentary films to webcams and blogs. This movement has changed the way ordinary individuals narrate and talk about their lives.
Winik will read selections from Above Us Only Sky, her current collection of essays, which continues the work she began in 1994 with her debut, Tilling. At that time, she was a thirty-something mother of two settling down after a wild-child run through the 70s and 80s. Her second book, First Comes Love, was written in her husband’s memory after his death from AIDS; her third, The Lunch-Box Chronicles, told of the ups and downs of single motherhood.
In 2001, she pulled together the wisdom of her crooked path to adulthood in Rules for the Unruly. Above Us Only Sky finds Marion in her mid40s, in her second marriage, living in rural Pennsylvania. But her maturity has not taken the edge off her outrageous humor and honesty, whether she is writing about a confrontation with her teenage son, getting her tubes tied, running a marathon, being a stepmother, aging, grieving, or reacting to news of global events. She reaches into her childhood and young womanhood to find new truths about family, friendship, faith, and feminism.
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