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Lucy Madison | Tanya Avakian | Bridget Kelly | Lauretta O'Connor | Patricia Hampl

Patricia Hampl The memoir, always vulnerable to a gut-punch (too self-indulgent, too self-absorbed), has taken some extra licks lately. The James Frey fray, in particular, has occasioned much schadenfreudery in literary and not-so-literary circles, as the not-so-bad-as-he’d-like-to-be author of A Million Little Pieces has been outed as a fictionist, more wild in fa (...)


 

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Lucy Madison, formerly Commonweal’s editorial assistant, is now assistant to the editor of Teen Vogue.

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Tanya Avakian, a librarian, lives in Delaware.

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Bridget Kelly, a former editor of the Yale Daily News, is currently a middle-school teacher working with Bilingual Education for Central America.

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Lauretta O’Connor, Commonweal's former office manager, lives in Fairfield, Connecticut.

about the writer

Patricia Hampl is the author of The Florist's Daughter and several other books. She teaches creative writing at the University of Minnesota.

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