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Lidia Yuknavitch. 3 Articles. Sorted by date published. Format. Series. Discipline. Decade. Clear Filters. A Woman Object (Exploding) by Lidia Yuknavitch. Goddamn it to motherfucking hell, she says. I think that ought to cover it, he says. He asks her why she feels the need to swear so much, so deliberately, what depends on it, why it’s so important to her. Why, after so long, she hasn’t.
Lidia Yuknavitch is the nationally bestselling author of the novels The Book of Joan, The Small Backs of Children, and Dora: A Headcase, and of the memoir The Chronology of Water.She is the recipient of two Oregon Book Awards and has been a finalist for the Brooklyn Public Library Literary Prize and the PEN Center USA Creative Nonfiction Award.
The book was Lidia Yuknavitch’s 2011 memoir,The Chronology of Water, and if a rawer, more honest contemporary author exists, I have yet to encounter her. Over a crackly phone connection, I spoke with Lidia about her wayward path to writing, sex, suffering, art, and the beauty of sticking out in a crowd.
I googled, like a good millennial, and found her essay, “Explicit Violence.. Lidia Yuknavitch is the author of the bestselling novels The Book of Joan and The Small Backs of Children. Her widely acclaimed memoir The Chronology of Water was a finalist for a PEN Center USA award for creative nonfiction and winner of a PNBA Award and the Oregon Book Award Reader’s Choice. She founded the.
Yuknavitch, a memoirist and fiction writer, read her essay “Woven,” which originally appeared in Guernica, a magazine focused on the intersection of arts and politics. “It’s an example of my resistance to the idea that nonfiction should stay in their separate houses,” she said.
We’re thrilled to Re-visit Lidia Yuknavitch. The author of nine books, including The Chronology of Water, The Small Backs of Children, The book of Joan, and the Misfits Manifesto. Lidia’s Ted Talk, The Beauty of Being a Misfit has been viewed 2,862,000 times. We think she has something to share about how telling and retelling your story can help re-frame traumatic experience. SPONSOR. Post.
Lidia Yuknavitch, author of the acclaimed new novel The Small Backs of Children, has a haunting essay up at Guernica about “Laume,” a mythological water spirit and guardian of all children that her Lithuanian grandmother introduced her to when she was young, and about the stories we tell ourselves to make sense of violence and tragedy:. I had a recurring dream for twenty years that I would.