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Greta Austin

Greta Austin is a professor of medieval European religious history at the University of Puget Sound. Names and places in this essay have been changed at the request of a relative of the author's.

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St. Augustine and the Hall of Memory

Like the philosopher, my aunt kept house in her imagination, tending to the sensations and images of the past

by Greta Austin | Wednesday, November 30, 2011

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The novelist and short-story writer Larry Woiwode, whose 1975 book Beyond the Bedroom Wall was one of the most acclaimed works of fiction of the era, died recently in North Dakota. He lived in the state for nearly 45 years, writing and working on his organic farm. He also served, for many years, as the poet laureate of North Dakota. In our Summer 2019 issue, Woiwode remembered his development as a writer—and how he ultimately came to find his voice.

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