
Excerpts and writing guidance from my family memoir about my father Earle Olsen's art career, especially in 1950s New York City. Plus other thoughts and tips on life, writing, life-writing, and the writing life....
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If you remember, I promised to write more about a talk I heard at AIPAD in New York City in April. Here it is.
Robert Frank, Fire Below - to the East America, Mabou, 1979 © The Robert Frank Foundation
The conversation, for which we lined...
The very start, with a long road ahead
My title is a homage to Alfred Kazin’s classic AWalker in the City, which — if I’m remembering correctly— has a scene in front of the lions flanking the New York Public Library on 42nd Stre...
Do you start writing without knowing what you want to say? Of course you do; that’s how it often works. “Idea” is what we called that when I taught writing to college students. Not theme or topic, but something more fluid that evolved as yo...
Time for another art round up. I’m behind on what I’ve seen.
I went to see the Whitney Biennial (through August 23rd) with a friend a few weeks ago and enjoyed its diversity and range. It felt thoughtful and engaged in a low-key way— not t...
card that accompanied the memoir I wrote for my father, Christmas 1977
I was thirteen years old when I wrote my first memoir; it was a Christmas present for my father. When he died and we emptied his house, I found it on a shelf among his...
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Victoria Olsen is a writer, editor, and teacher. She is currently working on Daddy-O, a memoir about her father's art career that she shares here, along with related material.
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