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Article: Book World; A Voice Worth Listening To
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- The Washington Post
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- July 20, 1994
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VOICE LESSONS
On Becoming a (Woman) Writer
By Nancy Mairs
Beacon. 166 pp. $15
In this rich and wise collection of essays about becoming a
writer (and a woman), Nancy Mairs describes a poetry workshop years
ago under the pear trees outside an old farmhouse in New Hampshire
where she and a group of other women reflected upon, discussed and
celebrated one another's work. Of this group Mairs says, "They, and
all the others like them whom I've never met, are the ones l write
for."
Though "Voice Lessons" traces what could be an arid search for
the nature of voice in writing, though it draws from literature,
psychoanalysis and feminism, though it cites the influences of
authors such ...
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Article: PRIVATE VOICE LESSONS
US Fed News Service, Including US State News;
September 18, 2008 ;
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...Aberdeen Proving Ground released the following issue of APG News: Ages 7 and older can register for private voice lessons, 4 to 7 p.m., Mondays, Sept. 29 through Oct. 27 (no class Oct. 13), at the Aberdeen Area Youth Center, building ...
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