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What is documentary fiction? This first year seminar centers around the practice of memoir and its relation to the curated persona of the artist, asking students to consider the way our culture fetishizes accountability and resists forgiveness. We will read a range of creative work representing memoirs as collections of fictions and mythologies, in turn resisting truth and bending genre. We will also examine the fragments of our own lives, anthems, and tenants. Giving ourselves permission to place ourselves slightly to the left of ourself, considering audience and found text; we will attempt to get closer to a collective truth.

Sleep in.

Discovered a great new writer and a great brand new book tonight. When he asked me who to make it out to I panicked and said Alex. And for a moment he was back. #grief

What do these 4 dead writers have in common? We’re summoning them at #litcrawlchicago this Saturday! Join us at @thehopleaf (and the alley behind Hopleaf!) Saturday at 7pm for a literary seance and theatrical journey. And make sure to check out the rest of LitCrawl 2018! . . . . . . #drinking #teetotalers #writing #theatre #flanneryoconnor #huntersthompson #uptonsinclair #maurinedallaswatkins #seance #chicago #andersonville #itslit #artinanalley https://www.instagram.com/p/Bn72UT-AApg/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=k0srxqrxqmjd

Same old pic. Same 9 digit code. Tiny new title. Same Michigan Ave. Same one I been walking my whole life. Streets of my home town are very very wide. Looking forward to talking about books and writing for the next 15 weeks. 💪🏼

I’m recharging at the cottage. My sentences are very good in the mornings. Then I get tired. I owe everything to time. I bow at the Bowles of time.

South side Mother’s Day crew. lilac.

Happy early Mother’s Day to me. Reading my favorite author on a rainy personal day. I’ve always been a great mom to myself and my friends, and my friend’s kids. And my siblings and my nephew. And my pets. It’s spring. It’s quiet here.

You guys, hope to see you at the hideout this Friday, 7pm! There will be so many awesome writers reading they’re stories, poems, and ephemera!!!! Also? Sexy Kurt Chiang may or may not be singing Christina Aguilera covers. 🖤🖤🖤#belonging #make #makemag #chicago #neofuturists #collaboration #misfits (at Hideout Inn)

It’s tradition to receive the ashes if you’d like to receive the ashes you may come forward to receive the ashes