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Fifteen years ago, Kathryn Scanlan found a stranger’s five-year diary at an estate auction in a small town in Illinois. The owner of the diary was eighty-six years old when she began recording the details of her life in the small book, a gift from her daughter and son-in-law. After reading and rereading the diary, studying and dissecting it, for the next fifteen years she played with the sentences that caught her attention, cutting, editing, arranging, and rearranging them into the composition that became ‘Aug 9 – Fog.’
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Kathryn Scanlan received a 2021 American Academy of Arts and Letters Award for “exceptional accomplishment” in literature. In a survey of her work-including her newest book Kick the Latch-published by The New Yorker, Leslie Jamison says: “Scanlan writes about ordinary life in extraordinary ways by compacting it radically, like pressurizing carbon into diamonds.”
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