Writes of Passage: Coming-of-Age Stories and Memoirs From The Hudson Review
Edited by Paula Deitz (this name as published has been corrected in this text), introduction by Dean Flower
Ivan R. Dee, 387 pages, $27.50
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“All the stories in this book are constructed in belated understanding, in the aftermaths of jolting, painful, magical experiences,” Dean Flower writes about the stories, memoirs and poems culled from The Hudson Review, now celebrating its 60th anniversary. The collection, a recognition of the transformative powers of writers like Elizabeth Spencer and William Trevor, as well as some yet-to-be-discovered voices, Flower writes, “is a reminder of our need for order and control in an often tumultuous world. The very act of writing itself is essential to the ceremony these stories perform.”