Crash Course: Essays From Where Writing and Life Collide

Crash Course: Essays From Where Writing and Life Collide

<div><p>Robin Black's path through loss and survival delivered her to the writer's life. Agoraphobia, the challenges of parenting a child with special needs, and the legacy of a formidable father all shaped that journey. In these deeply personal and instructive essays, the author of the internationally acclaimed <I>If I loved you, I would tell you this </I>and <I>Life Drawing </I>explores the making of art through the experiences of building a life. Engaging, challenging, and moving, <I>Crash Course </I>is full of insight into how to write—and why.</P><p><B>From "Autumn, 1972, A Moment at Which I Became a Writer":<br></B></P><p><I>I sense, even now, the reverberations of a kind of shattering of my foundation and a quick rebuild, a change at a molecular level of who I understood myself to be. No longer someone who could look at another person without wondering what their life was like, but someone with a new curiosity about what people's stories might actually be.</I></P><p><B>Robin Black </B>is the author of the story collection, <I>If I loved you, I would tell you this </I>and the novel <I>Life Drawing</I>, both critically acclaimed, and both published in multiple languages. She has developed a loyal, enthusiastic following for her essays on life and writing, online and in such publications as the <I>New York Times</I>, the <I>Chicago Tribune</I>, and <I>O Magazine</I>. She lives with her husband in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, where the house is always open for their three grown children.<BR></div>