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I don’t want to write an autobiography, because that would mean I’m done as | I don’t want to write an autobiography, because that would mean I’m done as | ||
a writer. I’ve never written about any of my wives, for just that reason.” | a writer. I’ve never written about any of my wives, for just that reason.” | ||
Norman seems to be saying that the light of his imagination is cast in a | |||
cone through a crystal experience, becoming prism-like in its power to | |||
divide the light into the revelation of the full spectrum of its colors. | |||
The inaugural events of the first weeks of the Colony included Robert | |||
Begiebing’s workshop focused on “self-editing for writers.” J. Michael Lennon gave a workshop on novelistic techniques of the new journalism. A week | |||
later Kaylie Jones would be teaching memoir. An award sponsored by the | |||
Colony and Provincetown Arts Press selected Salvatore Scibona as the winner of the 2009 Norman Mailer Award for Exception Writing on Cape Cod. | |||
Scibona’s novel, The End, was nominated last year for the National Book | |||
Award. He wrote most of the book in Provincetown as a fellow and future | |||
writing coordinator of the Fine Arts Work Center. |
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