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thinking about memoir book




a three dog life memoir
"Abigail Thomas is a brilliant writer whose stories and memoirs I have loved for a long time. Now she has written a brilliant book about creating stories and memoirs, that is also a kind of memoir, rich with stories that made me sigh, laugh, wince with recognition, and actually even want to write. It is beautiful, charming, funny, painful, and will be of indescribable value and inspiration to anyone who wants to write anything."
ANNE LAMOTT


Abigail Thomas's new book, Thinking About Memoir will be published by Sterling, April 2008. Pre-order here


A THREE DOG LIFE IS NOW AVAILABLE IN SOFTCOVER

A Three Dog Life was selected as one of the Best Books of 2006 by the LA Times and the Washington Post


Astonishing...an extraordinary, and horrific, love story Entertainment Weekly

“Bracingly honest” Vanity Fair

Original”  Newsday 

Perfectly honed”  Newsweek

SpellbindingElle

Startling”  O, The Oprah Magazine

Haunting”  People

“Stunning” Los Angeles Times Book Review

A high plain of true inspiration”  Booklist

Read the Reviews


UPCOMING WORKSHOPS & EVENTS WITH ABIGAIL THOMAS


March 13, 2008, 12 - 2pm
New York, NY
The Women Against MS luncheon, at Cipriani 23, 200 Fifth Avenue, Lobby Level
A talk with Paula Bernstein & Elyse Schein authors of Identical Strangers, and Immaculee Ilbagiza, author of Left To Tell: Discovering God Amidst the Rwandan Holocaust. Panel moderator Lucy Danziger, editor-in-chief of Self magazine
For more information, contact Jenny Powers at 212-453-3208 or jpowers@msnyc.org

March 19, 2008, 7pm
Kingston, NY
Reading at Barnes & Noble Booksellers
117 Ulster Avenue, 845-336-0590

April 1-4, 2008
Evanston/Chicago, Illinois
Writer-in-Residence, Northwestern University
April 2, 2008 reading in Norris Hall Wildcat Room, 5 - 6:30pm, 847-491-7294, email

April 23, 2008, 7pm
Fort Washington, Pennsylvania
Reading at the Germantown Acadamy, in the Arts Center Theater, as the first Writer in Residence, link

May 8, 2008, 7-9pm
New York, NY
Reading at KGB Bar, 85 East 4th Street, with Kelly McMasters, link

May 9, 2008, 5pm
Woodstock, NY
Book signing at the Golden Notebook bookstore, 845-679-8000, link

May 17, 2008
Hunter, NY
Reading at Catskill Mountain Foundation Bookstore, link

May 21, 2008
Brooklyn, NY
Reading at Montauk Club, 25 Eighth Ave, 718-638-0800, link

June 22-27, 2008
Salt Lake City, Utah
Teaching memoir writing workshop at Writers at Work writing conference, link

July 13-July 20, 2008
Portland, Oregon
Teaching memoir writing workshop at Tin House Writing Workshop, link

September 17, 2008, 6:30-8:00
New York City
Reading/Talk at Mid-Manhattan Library, 455 Fifth Ave, link


Past readings & events

Read an excerpt of A Three Dog Life


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