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from the center for the study teaching writing at the Ohio state university this his writers
so
today he had the Ohio and across the political see behind me
and I'm talking to you jennifer
about her
no more underclass the crew with the thousand christmas trees
it's a memoir of her childhood growing up with the demand
strong signal
and %uh you left
came back to strong school highland all of your dream house will go on
in a in a manner saluted chrissie hynde of the pretenders sincere on the back
about %uh finding all the changes that are occurring
so tell me about the impact around three o'clock and how it all got started
well the ninety eight and that hurts think
it's flowers dozen stocks Ohio senate side nineteen fifteen until about two thousand
five
on that note we're out for generations of my family
Edwards who has since nineteen
Dean said he wanted a grandfather comments by around their necks
and I don't want the blood on the glass does is a conference on
basically the downfall
the loss of that of this
I what's starting to happen in on the area around %uh
nineteen ninety seven
I mean I mean time frame
on arrive at things are happening with my family
come along side of savannah that left her as the family started to fall apart the greenhouse
gases start to fall apart as well because it was a family business families out there
the difference is it going to be attacked
so I love about it is seeing every time they came
that's cool constitute the greenhouses
was it the greenhouses are falling apart at the same time
and so I could see this parallel story happened
%uh a metaphor obviously as the family fell apart because it's not a part
I'm sorry sir he's right about it and seen that document
and what happened
that's when it really gets through that might science report
and that's the number
yes sir
tell me about the writing of history that seems like a difficult thing to do because
you're writing
with a lot of the people
the chief grown up with him
dear reading along with you were there did you think you're going to read at the end
and that's good enough
and a lot of that descriptions said
people as characters
well it was night and I think he says at the university of idaho
and I mean that's all that's a cynic and I think
of a number of them were published independently and magazines in journalism
that sort of thing
so my family was aware that is writing and it's in the cases of aids
and they saw that and I think the statistics are the ones that have listened
I think a lot is going on on tax hikes and an interview
I mean you know about their memories of certain things that the greenhouse and what they thought
was going on at the house
I mean I was working on it
%uh the whole time
on page eighteen
sensitive to things that they didn't want to be in the book
%uh they all had the option of creating a mini state department's Frank
%uh management and I think that my brother and I mounted is not simply a couple of things
after this incident
yeah that they have to have that
this together and write your family
everybody has different memories
everybody has different reputations of what happened to that day here that you know Howard
%uh and
%uh it's a man March play it down
I would not say that anything in there is the absolute truth it's just my interpretation
of what's happened
so how does this work and when you read the rest
working through all this stuff
were there moments that were relieved
difficult scene
works through
well the beginning
abraham
groups and saying notices that might make a better character or
you want me to do your interpretation of that
and then I think that's good
this appears on screen a framework sounds like I said yeah
it has submitted chapter to a group of twenty students
they would concede and terrifying on the basis of what I heard
on any given day how dare you suggest as to how to go about this book
%uh I've had suggestions from like let's just do that history of all the greenhouses in
the world and a great idea
it's dangerous
I'm sorry
bill houses rules
someone said well you just read about class the history classes very interesting sight
I got you know lots of different and suggestions that back
%uh but ultimately I did
that I wanted to keep it focused on making house does anybody care industry greenhouses
that is the only one who could write about the history of hertz the house
more broadly the presence of hurts the house was hot
in the senate
of the four missiles
so I
and that the feedback I've gotten from the time and I think there's still a question
it helps a lot
I read lots of different styles of writing they were all working on the road projects
I don't think I could have written the book without being in an instant
that's a mixed bag
it's the most recent of anonymity
in a memoir is that
my memoirs of sticker shock you make a lot of conscious choices about style
and as you go through what are some of the choices that you
it's later than you do you think about who's the narrator what is that
how does that work isn't the only issue it is a singular is limited is unreliable
which a lot of men were splitting votes and delegates
it's a question of
also the chapters of this but started out with as saying
we definitely on the beach at say I was telling like the story over from the beginning and
reducing the family and you know all that
on and it wasn't and sell them
hold it up
for five years after I wrote
he said that well that say is that I started to see a way to put it together as on that
one
so I had to have more than a retired like you say
%uh I had seen what I did is I looked at the first time since the last sentence of the
testing insiders try to put it together in a way that makes sense of just pull out the
first sentences and fall of the last sentence is that for the sort of are
%uh the story
so you know they're saying I think that had to do in the beginning because the evidence
the history the site of the background talk about
%uh what's happening
family
there are a few lessons that had to go to the edge because the results in ten
on the knicks have a lot of the metaphors
images back
so I
the hardest thing was getting it together in the form of a number on it for so many
years I thought it in a separate has said
it's an interest in the house
chronological sound like
that was very difficult
the challenge and I think that is the hardest last that
since this morning when you say he said a somewhat chronological
we're here because this is being written at different times
you're a different person
that's your that the students also they're out of work
the best
the thing that you're thinking about at the time or rather the best story probably this
is the
but first in the real estate
that you can explore other things as well
sentinel a recent memory itself does not
if I somehow wanted me at all
our memories are constantly spiraling back street and differences he sits at any given
time
so it may be realistic to write a chronological
memoir like that up to a week
so for example if I can maybe on
and an upset about me and my brother playing a in the greenhouse
it's a
in the winter something like that
and then I can do about it
there is some of that historic of the house
or of politics with the Iraqis
what happens in greenhouses and Michigan
some kind of moving all over the face in making
the more dramatic actions rather than rather than
the chronological
it's it's very dramatic
the morris that we're protecting the influential
for you is your reading
yes where these incidents with us congressman sanders
he made some questions about safety in the memoirs
and he's visited all three of the schools at things that I think is the better so I've
gotten to me
all different status of on my writing
and he sent an even-handed clearer thought-provoking on intelligent absence of now
what's happening right in his backyard
he was
a great influence it back
any tillery how to get there in time
so it's like to be the blood up into a kind of physics their playfulness the plane
on Wednesday a veto that left and right
and with this book and I think those are clear
I did a very Stern breaking records staggering genius I read that in two thousand and it
completely change the map
%uh the way that he was not telling a story
it's like a classic style you know breaking down of interest mister specter challenging
the final thing is that
the you spent a lot of ink
writing the thing that you're also carry some deep around with you
on your honor
you've got this I think this is the dream house %uh
the representation of the greenhouse are also wants that
cover the book
it's freezing excellent good one
will be very different in the light
thank you very much gentler for talking to us today
Ohio and on
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