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2019 Aspen Ideas Festival Arts Track: The Art of the Memoir

Note: This is a past event, additional resources may be available below.

Mon Jun 24, 2019
Aspen, CO

Date

Mon Jun 24, 2019
8:00pm EDT

Location

Aspen, CO
Aspen Meadows

Contact

Hosts

  1. Arts Program

 

Richard Blanco, Kiese Laymon, Dani Shapiro, Erika Mallin

Award-winning memoirists from Miami, Jackson, Mississippi and New York City who tackled the subject of identity and feelings of otherness in their country and in their homes, spoke of what compelled them to share their stories in an incisive conversation co-presented with Aspen Words. In the excerpt below the authors speak about the transcendent qualities of memoir and the search for truth in their writing.

For video of the entire conversation and more information visit: https://www.aspenideas.org/sessions/the-art-of-the-memoir 

Richard Blanco, Kiese Laymon, Dani Shapiro, Erika Mallin

Award-winning memoirists from Miami, Jackson, Mississippi and New York City who tackled the subject of identity and feelings of otherness in their country and in their homes, spoke of what compelled them to share their stories in an incisive conversation co-presented with Aspen Words. In the excerpt below the authors speak about the transcendent qualities of memoir and the search for truth in their writing.

For video of the entire conversation and more information visit: https://www.aspenideas.org/sessions/the-art-of-the-memoir