Tuesday, November 10, 2009

Gretel Ehrlich

Gretel Ehrlich will be speaking this Wednesday (tomorrow) at:

101 Becker Communications Building, 7 p.m.

I was introduced to Ehrlich's writing via recommendation from Jeff Porter, who teaches in the English Department. Her book "The Solace of Open Spaces" is an essay about her experiences living in rural Wyoming. After the death of her partner, she left her career as a filmmaker in New York and decided to work on a sheep farm in Wyoming-- in her writings, she wanders from Western culture and rodeos to the relationships, landscape... You can read more about her here:

http://www.parkcentralwebs.com/GretelEhrlich/bio.asp

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