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Lowry Pei: Memoirs
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Memoirs and personal essays. The Things I Cannot Write. Very rarely, a piece of writing comes all at once in an unexpected rush that cannot be repeated. This is one of those. Perhaps it could only come into being that way, because the title is close to true. How could it have begun? How could it possibly have begun? Read more ». Download the full pdf [89.4kB] ». My father was a Chinese immigrant with a heavy accent, and a stutterer; I’m none of those things but I am audibly his son. Read more ». My stude...
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Lowry Pei: Bio
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My father grew up in Soochow, China; my mother came from Columbus, Kansas. Improbable as it seems even to me, they married in Chicago in 1946 and became my parents. I grew up in St. Louis in the 50’s, without air conditioning or TV, and with the radio on. The Cardinals game was going, it seemed, all summer; Chuck Berry was the. I had two mentally retarded brothers whose existence rendered our family life still more peculiar than it would have been anyway. In 1975 I got an unaccountable urge to write a no...
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Lowry Pei: Stories
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The stories are listed in chronological order, with either the year I started to write them or the year they were published. Barranca, King of the Tree Streets. I lived in Princeton, New Jersey, for six months in the latter half of 1977. Life there was in some ways peculiar, but not half as peculiar as this story. It appeared in Edges, an anthology edited by Ursula Le Guin and Virginia Kidd. 8220;Chestnut, Maple, Spruce—right around here.”. Read more ». Download the full pdf [141.4kB] ». Read more ».
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Lowry Pei: On Writing
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A meditation on how imagination, memory, and the self connect in the writing of fiction. Read more ». Download the full pdf [145.7kB] ». Novels for No One. This piece grew out of the Writer’s Journal from. In the course of writing that book I finally realized, contrary to what I had always hoped and assumed, that writing fiction is not an act of communication, or else communication is not what I once imagined. It seems to me that being clear on what we’re doing can only help in the making of art.
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Lowry Pei: Novels
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Seven of my eight books (plus a version 2.0 of one of them) are listed in chronological order. Also check out a behind the scenes look. At the writing of my novels. Random House, 1986). On the hottest days, my Aunt Augusta would drive around New Franklin with the windows rolled up, so that people would think the air conditioning still worked in the Buick she had inherited along with the house. Read first chapter ». Download the full pdf [2.3MB] ». From the Next Room. Read first chapter ». Never Let You Go.
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Waterways – Waterways
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Imagining a human place in nature. 1 The River Owns Itself. 2 Causation, Complexity, and Life. 4 From a Single Cell to Human Awareness and the Self. 5 The Fresh Pond Marshes. 7 White Geese at Rush Hour. 8 A World Beyond Our Intentions. 9 The Muddy Edge of Sky. 10 The Dream of Perfect Control. 11 A Promise of Future. Walks on the Boundary Line. This is the book manuscript that has emerged from the project chronicled on The Water Margin. Leave a Reply Cancel reply. Enter your comment here.
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Dear Reader – Waterways
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Imagining a human place in nature. 1 The River Owns Itself. 2 Causation, Complexity, and Life. 4 From a Single Cell to Human Awareness and the Self. 5 The Fresh Pond Marshes. 7 White Geese at Rush Hour. 8 A World Beyond Our Intentions. 9 The Muddy Edge of Sky. 10 The Dream of Perfect Control. 11 A Promise of Future. Walks on the Boundary Line. September 4, 2010. This WordPress site is an online home for my book. Waterways: Imagining a Human Place in Nature. All photographs are by the author. Is licensed ...