Tag Archives: memoir

Somewhere Between

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August is Summer Reading Month in Daily Nutmeg, and Reginald Dwayne Betts is this week’s featured author. Please enjoy this excerpt from (more…)

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Island Getaway

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When Hamdenite Tory Bilski first landed in Iceland in 2001, it seemed isolated, “hanging off the map of Europe”—at least, to an American. (more…)

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No Brighter with Fire

Tim Parrish at Southern Connecticut State University

August is Summer Reading Month in Daily Nutmeg, and Tim Parrish is this week’s featured author. Please enjoy the following excerpt (more…)

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Southern Exposure

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Though he moved away 31 years ago, Tim Parrish can’t seem to leave Baton Rouge behind. (more…)

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Wave After Wave

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August is Summer Reading Month in Daily Nutmeg, and Carlos Eire is this week’s featured author. Please enjoy this excerpt from Eire’s 2010 memoir, Learning to Die in Miami. (more…)

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Writing Home

Donald Hall plaque at Spring Glen Elementary School

Donald Hall’s childhood home stands at the corner of Ardmore and Greenway Streets in Hamden’s Spring Glen neighborhood—as he described it, “a small, dark, well-constructed, mock-Tudor house.” (more…)

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