BY NICOLE HOLLANDER I’ve been working on a visual memoir called In the Old Neighborhood, which is a treatment of the ideas I worked on at Ragdale in 2010. I’m concentrating on the courtyard section of the building and the 3 families that lived in those apartments. My family lived in the middle apartment. The … Continue reading
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Never Tell Your Mother This Dream #3: I’ve Got You Under My Skin
BY NICOLE HOLLANDER Every year the Goodman Theater, partnering with the City of Chicago, sends a writing teacher to various senior centers around the city. The students get a 6-week writing course around a theme and a chance to see a play at the Goodman before anyone else does. This year it was Other Desert … Continue reading
Never Tell Your Mother This Dream #2: No, I’m Sorry, Officer, I Don’t Know Where My Father Is
BY NICOLE HOLLANDER [Nicole Hollander, age 6] Perhaps you woke up this morning with the word “memoir” written in black crayon on a piece of orange origami paper stuck to your forehead. Or maybe, like me, you write and draw and you are out of work and you notice that people are deep into memoir … Continue reading