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The title piece of the book is a memoir set in Austin during the author’s early twenties. The story unfolds in a period beginning with the shooting of John Lennon in December 1980 and ending with the Memorial Day flood in 1981. Set against the background of the Reagan presidency, the joys of communal living, the prophecies of the I Ching, and the Austin performance scene of the period, it tells the story of a love triangle that ended in tragedy, and a friendship that survived nonetheless.
Above Us Only Skyis a passionate act of memory of which columnist Jim Shahin has said, “I feel I have read one of those truly rare pieces that says something enormous in such a clean, unenormous way, like the work of the early Joan Didion.” Writer Anne Lamott said, “God, what a story, what a writer! Marion Winik blew me away.”
Winik’s essays and articles have been published in O, Salon, Travel+Leisure, National Geographic Traveler, Texas Monthly, Men’s Journal, Reader’s Digest, Utne Reader, Health, Cooking Light, Redbook, More, Central PA The Houston Chronicle, The Los Angeles Times, New York Newsday, The Baltimore Sun, and many other newspapers, magazines, web sites and anthologies. She was a contributing editor for many years ajt both Parenting and American Way. „ -
Currently teaching writing at Carlow University and York College* Winik was the recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship in Creative Non-Fiction and has been inducted into the Texas Institute if Letters. She has appeared on national television programs including the Tbday Show, Politically Incorrect and Oprah.
Bom in New York in 1958, Winik graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Brown University in 1978 with a BA. in History and in Semiotics. In 1983, she received an MFA in Creative Writing from Brooklyn College of the City University of New York. She lives in Glen Rock, Pennsylvania with her husband, Crispin Sartwell, and their five children.
RAAC invites you to experience Winik’s incisive wit and to share her journey, which is at once both personal and universal, at the Rappahannock County Library on March 10 at 8 p.m.
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