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  • Genre:LITERARY COLLECTIONS
  • SubGenre:Essays
  • Language:English
  • Pages:200
  • Paperback ISBN:9798350970111

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Stories We Found In Our Closets

by Tinker Lindsay , Monique de Varennes, Kathryn Hagen, Emilie R. Small, Barbara Sweeney, Bev Baz, Lucretia Bingham, Hilary Dole Klein and Patricia Stiles

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Overview
Every piece of clothing tells a story. After meeting for years, supporting each other's work, these colleagues decided to try something new—a collaboration. They dug into their closets and discovered that personal essays about clothes—on everything from fringe jackets and fishing vests to bridal tulle and Beatles T-shirts—have the power to evoke memories, not just for themselves, but for everyone that reads them.
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Altered is a two-hundred-page journey through the personal lives of ten women writers who have known each other's work, but not details from each other's pasts. Anchored by archival photographs, each essay depicts how an article of clothing changed the writer from childhood on through marriages, careers and families. The essays run the gamut of emotions, including the joy of discovering new freedoms and the grief that comes with loss.  

About the author

Editors/Authors

Monique de Varennes won a Pushcart Prize for her short fiction and awards for two children's books. She studied at the Iowa Writer's Workshop and the Writing Seminars at Johns Hopkins University.

Kathryn Hagen studied fashion design and painting before launching a college-level teaching career. Her books include Illustration for Fashion Designers and Garb: A Fashion and Culture Reader.

Tinker Lindsay is a WGA member with numerous screenwriting credits and the author of multiple books. Appropriately, she lives and works under the Hollywood sign.

Emilie R. Small is an LA-based, Emmy-nominated television writer, screenwriter and author. She is a member of the WGA West and the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences.

Barbara Sweeney is an anthologized poet and award-winning copywriter. She is represented by Anna Olswanger, Olswanger Literary LLC.

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Millie 		Great Collection of Stories to Enjoy and Get You Thinking This is a great collection of individual stories. The authors wrote about how items of clothing characterized and affected their childhood or teenage years - their relationships with their parents and siblings, their classmates and teachers, and their view of themselves. Each story drew me into another person's life. Most of all, reading these stories made me realize how clothing and the interactions that involve clothing affected my own childhood, my perception of myself and of my future in a way I had not realized until I read this book. For example, I remember that when my mother and I came home from shopping for new school clothes for elementary school each fall, my father would say how nice I looked and then say, "You look just like a college student." Read more
Martha 		Altered - Great fun! I love this book! So real and evocative. Reading it was like going on a girlfriends' weekend and telling each other stories over 3 days of hanging out together at a cabin in the mountains. Cozy! Friendly! Yummy! Read more