The Washington Post, September 13th, 2005
READING, WRITING, AND LEAVING HOME Life on the Page By Lynn Freed Harcourt. 237 pp. $22 To the tiny list of necessary books for people who aspire to the writing life -- "Mystery and Manners," by Flannery O'Connor, and "One Writer's Beginnings," by Eudora Welty -- must now be added "Reading, Writing, and Leaving Home." Like those two books, Lynn Freed's memoir, in the form of 11 essays, has an essential quality largely lacking in the permissive, indulgent culture of the writing- school era: honesty. Freed knows, contrary to what the writing gurus would have their acolytes believe, that not ever...
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