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May.22.2013
My poem "Form/Formless" appears on JoAnne Growney's blog, Intersections — Poetry with Mathematics: http://poetrywithmathematics.blogspot.com/2013/05/shifting-patterns.html
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May.16.2013
An article about my memoir, Married at Fourteen, and its nomination for the Northern California Book Award in Creative Nonfiction appears in the JWeekly: http://www.jweekly.com/article/full/68587/memoir-details-a-path-toward-destruction-turned-around/
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May.12.2013
My personal essay "The Trip" will be published in the anthology The Times They Were A-Changing: Women Remember the 60s and 70s. Here's a blog about "The Trip": http://www.timestheywereachanging.com/blog/
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May.01.2013
The night before reading from my memoir, Married at Fourteen, at a bookstore in Mendocino on the coast of Northern California, I stayed at a B&B in Albion. In the bookcase in my room was a first-edition copy of The Marble Faun, by Nathaniel Hawthorne. I opened it to the Introduction, in which...
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Apr.07.2013
I learned recently that my memoir, Married at Fourteen, is one of five finalists for the Northern California Book Award in Creative Nonfiction. The winner will be announced on May 19 in a public ceremony to which all are invited. Here's the complete list of finalists in all categories:...
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Jan.29.2013
Here is my interview on writing and motherhood in Balancing the Tide: http://www.balancingthetide.com/2013/01/nineteen-lucille-lang-day.html
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Nov.07.2012
An excerpt from the second chapter of Married at Fourteen appears in The Nervous Breakdown:
http://www.thenervousbreakdown.com/tnbnonfiction/2012/10/excerpt-from-ma...
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Nov.07.2012
My self interview about Married at Fourteen appears in The Nervous Breakdown:
http://www.thenervousbreakdown.com/tnbnonfiction/2012/10/lucille-lang-da...
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Nov.03.2011
When I pulled my advance copy of Nathaniel Purple from the envelope, my first thought was, What an interesting name!
The book, a compelling novella by F.D. Reeve, lives up to its promise. Reeve renders a small Vermont town where everyone knows everyone else and everyone’s life is...
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Nov.11.2010
I received Violeta Parra: By the Whim of the Wind as a gift from a friend. Before receiving it, I had never heard of Violeta Parra. After reading it, I immediately bought a CD of her music. I had to hear her! I also started telling friends about this amazing woman. What I love best about the book...
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Feb.17.2010
I’d never heard of Simon Mawer, but last year he published a novel called The Glass Room and a review of it mentioned and praised an earlier novel, The Fall, which prompted my husband Richard, who is also a writer, to check The Fall out of the library. After reading it, he recommended it to me,...
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Oct.22.2009
I recently read Tracy Koretsky’s first poetry collection, Even Before My Own Name. This book looks unflinchingly at the trauma inflicted by her mother’s death when Koretsky was 12. This trauma includes not only the death itself, but also sharing a household with an abusive older brother, an...
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You won’t find a more likable voice on the page...”
—Cyra McFadden
About Lucille
Lucille Lang Day's memoir, Married at Fourteen: A True Story, was published by Heyday in October 2012. She is also the author of a children's book, Chain Letter, and eight poetry collections and chapbooks: The Curvature of Blue, God of the Jellyfish, The Book...
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George Mark Children's House
Doctors Without Borders
Environmental Defense Fund
Poetry Flash
Smile Train