Patricia Foster reading, Live From Prairie Lights, November 05, 2004

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Title	Patricia Foster reading, Live From Prairie Lights, November 05, 2004
Creator	Foster, Patricia, 1948-
Contributor	Englander, Julie
Publisher	WSUI 910 AM (Radio station : Iowa City, Iowa)
Date Original	2004-11-05
Description	Patricia Foster reads two excerpts from her book of essays entitled Just Beneath My Skin: Autobiography and Self-Discovery. Foster, a professor in the Nonfiction Writing Program at the University of Iowa, discusses her take on the memoir or personal essay. She acknowledges academics' disdain for the memoir form, yet she strongly feels that it is a strong enough form to warrant its own genre. During a question and answer session, Foster discusses her writing process, confessing that it takes her a very long time to write and edit a collection. She points out that she hopes in the near future to move past the memoir form and write about other individuals, claiming, "I think I've run out of my own stories." When asked to describe the difference between an essay and a short story, Foster claims that an essay is essentially a "nonfiction short story." Foster further explains her belief that the conventions of storytelling can be used in the nonfiction form. She goes on to relay the pressure she feels as a native Southerner to master the art of storytelling, claiming that sometimes she felt like she was "just repeating the masters of fiction." Works Read: "Skin" and "The Intelligent Heart" from Just Beneath My Skin: Autobiography and Self-Discovery by Patricia Foster
Note	Live From Prairie Lights was a live public radio program broadcast from Prairie Lights, an independent bookstore in Iowa City, Iowa. The program showcased new and established writers from around the world.
Venue	Prairie Lights Bookstore
Keywords	memoir, storytelling, Southern culture, writing process
Topical Subject (LCTGM)	Authors Writing
Topical Subject (LCSH)	Nonfiction Autobiography
Personal Name Subject	Foster, Patricia, 1948-
Geographic Subject	United States -- Iowa -- Iowa City
Chronological Subject	2000-2010
Type (DCMIType)	Sound
Type (AAT)	Broadcasts Dramatic readings
Type (IMT)	mpeg
Duration	00:58:31
Language	English
Digital Collection	Virtual Writing University Archive
Contributing Institution	WSUI 910 AM (Radio station : Iowa City, Iowa) Prairie Lights (Iowa City, Iowa)
Subcollection	Live From Prairie Lights
Rights Management	Educational use only, no other rights given. U.S. and international copyright laws may protect this digital object. Commercial use or distribution of the object is not permitted without prior permission of the copyright holder.
Contact Information	Contact the VWU Webmaster: http://www.writinguniversity.org/index.php/main/info/25/
Digitization Specifications	MP3 mpeg layer 2 audio @ 32kbps derived from archival WAVE files
Date Digital	2008-09-16
File Name	LPL2004_11_05-32

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