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The following excerpt comes from Chapter 20 of Margo Price's memoir Maybe We'll Make It: From 2010 to 2015, a constant stream of people crashed in the basement guest room at our house. We had a rotating door open to transients and train-hoppers, and our home on Fernwood was like a hostel for wandering musicians and vagabonds, with our ...
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While next season's full lineup is still being finalized, we couldn't wait to tell you about one very special returning guest: On October 30th, NWS is bringing David Sedaris back to the City Opera House! It's been over a decade since his last NWS appearance, but soon the acclaimed author of Me Talk Pretty One Day and When You Are ...
This was originally published in the Traverse City Record-Eagle. You can view the original column here. The National Writers Series draws authors from all over the country and the world. But no matter who is visiting our fair city — Margaret Atwood, Lee Child, Ann Patchett, Paul Holes, Alice Walker — they’ve all been knocked out by the ...
One of the real joys of my life over the past year was the opportunity to be a part of the relaunch of Front Street Writers. It was a joy because I had an opportunity to be a part of the National Writers Series in a staff capacity, taking a much bigger role in our vision to offer world-class creative writing education to young people in the ...
An Evening with Paul Holes, Live from the City Opera House Last May, retired cold-case investigator and true-crime icon Paul Holes joined the National Writers Series LIVE in Traverse City, Michigan for a conversation about his new memoir Unmasked: My Life Solving America's Cold Cases. He was joined on stage at the City Opera House ...
April 25, 2022 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: The National Writers Series Closes its Spring Season with Two Very Different Authors:George Saunders and Paul Holes The National Writers Series will bring its Winter/Spring season to a close in a few weeks, with our final events taking place nearly back-to-back. We're hosting two very ...