Monthly Archives: October 2006

Since arriving at this biography conference, I’ve been flooded with memories of college. Cut off from my usual friends and family, figuring out the lay-out of a new place, eating dining-hall food three times a day, making small-talk with people I don’t know as I struggle to memorize the pertinent details of their lives, deciding whether to raise my hand … →

I’m in Salzburg, Austria, at a conference on biography at the Salzburg Seminar. Several months ago, when I received an email about to the conference, my impulse was to hit the delete button — Salzburg was too far away, I had too much work to do, it would take too much effort to unpeel myself from my life. But my … →