THE KIDS ARE ALL RIGHT
by Diana Welch Liz Welch Amanda Welch Dan Welch
Somehow, between their father’s mysterious death, their glamorous soap-opera-star mother’s cancer diagnosis, and a phalanx of lawyers intent on bankruptcy proceedings, the four Welch siblings managed to handle each new heartbreaking misfortune together…
Told in the alternating voices of the four siblings, their poignant, harrowing story of unbreakable bonds unfolds with ferocious emotion. Despite the Welch children’s wrenching loss and subsequent separation, they retained the resilience and humor that both their mother and father endowed them with–growing up as lost souls, taking disastrous turns along the way, but eventually coming out right side up. The kids are not only all right; they’re back together.
– Crown, 2010
ALA Award Winner, 2010
Salon.com Best Book of 2009
NOT QUITE WHAT I WAS PLANNING
Six-Word Memoirs by Writers Famous and Obscure
When Hemingway famously wrote, "For Sale: baby shoes, never worn," he proved that an entire story can be told using a half dozen words. When the online storytelling magazine SMITH asked readers to submit six-word memoirs, they proved a whole, real life can be told this way too. The results are fascinating, hilarious, shocking, and moving.
From small sagas of bittersweet romance ("Found true love, married someone else") to proud achievements and stinging regrets ("After Harvard, had baby with crackhead"), these terse true tales relate the diversity of human experience in tasty bite-sized pieces. From authors Jonathan Lethem and Richard Ford to comedians Stephen Colbert and Amy Sedaris, to ordinary folks around the world, everyone has a six-word story to tell.
I’m one of the obscure ones.
LET ME ENTERTAIN YOU
Jill Pangallo
An assortment of monologues, poetry, creative writing, e-mails, drawing, and miscellanea collected by Jill Pangallo on the occasion of and as inspiration for her show of the same name.
Including contributions from:
Mike Albo Dan Boehl, Etic Bryant, Karen Davidson, Hilary Graham, Josh Kilmer-Purcell, Michelle Marchessault, Holly McKinley, Ann Stephenson, Diana Welch, Alex P. White.