Ask the Author: Gavin Larsen
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Gavin Larsen
Being a Ballerina was a slow build. It began as a series of essays reflecting on episodes or thoughts about my life as a dancer. Gradually, they accumulated and I began to piece them together, not intending a memoir, but simply an expression of what it means to be a dancer. The result IS a memoir, but still has the patchwork quilt quality of a book of short stories.
Gavin Larsen
I have several projects simmering on the back burner, including the memoirs of a formerly incarcerated chef. It will be the story of how cooking while in prison saved his sanity and possibly his life, giving him reason to subsist through each dreadful day in the penitentiary.
Gavin Larsen
Getting to spill my every thought, emotion, instinct and reflection onto the page-- and then sorting it out, which is like self-analysis. The process of writing teaches me more than I thought I knew.
Gavin Larsen
The Stationery Shop by Marjan Kamali, With a Daughter's Eye by Mary Catherine Bateson, At the Center of all Beauty by Fenton Johnson.
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