Feb 04, 2015
Day Three Western Colorado State University
Today was a special treat. I got to speak to an upper division creative nonfiction class, where I started with the presentation called “100 memoirs in 10 minutes,” a run-through of the 100 memoirs I have read in the past few years, ranging from Conroy’s Stop Time published in 1977 to Brian Turner’s My Life as a Foreign Country published in 2014. The students were engaged, thoughtful, and so generous and kind.
Then I did a radio interview at the campus station, where Taylor asked me many questions about traveling and writing.
This has been such a wonderful day and I’m so thankful to Dr. Elizabyth Hiscox and the entire faculty at Western for inviting me to visit with the students. I feel truly enriched and inspired.