Beyond Words is the official blog of The Writer's Garret, the only year-round independent literary center in North Texas. Our mission is to foster the education and development of readers, writers, and audiences by putting them in touch with quality literature, each other, and the communities in which they live and write.

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27 June 09

The Writer’s Studio Presents Marilynne Robinson

D Magazine says, “Fact: Literary readings can be boring. Another fact: The Writers Studio … is anything but.” Inspired by Bravo’s “Inside the Actors Studio,” the Writers Studio brings to Dallas the world’s most accomplished writers for an intimate look at their work.  A virtual “Who’s Who” of the literary world, Studio authors have included Alice Walker, Louise Erdrich, Joan Didion, Umberto Eco, Maxine Hong Kingston, Ernest Gaines, Julia Alvarez, and many others.

The Writer’s Studio presents Marilynne Robinson …

Marilynne Robinson (born 1943 or 1947) is an American author. Her 1980 novel Housekeeping won a Hemingway Foundation/PEN Award for best first novel and was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. Her second novel, Gilead, was acclaimed by critics and received the 2005 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, the 2004 National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction, and the 2005 Ambassador Book Award. Her third novel, Home, published in 2008, was a finalist for the 2008 National Book Award, and won the 2009 Orange Prize for Fiction. Also in 2009, she held a Dwight H. Terry Lectureship at Yale University, giving a series of talks entitled Absence of Mind: The Dispelling of Inwardness from the Modern

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The mission of The Writer’s Garret is to foster the education and development of readers, writers, and audiences, by putting them in touch with quality literature, each other, and the communities in which they live.
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