Stop Here This Is the Place Winky Lewis and Susan Conley a photographer and a writer in Portland tried an experiment At the start of every week for a year Winky sent Susan a photograph of their children of the street where t
Winky Lewis and Susan Conley, a photographer and a writer in Portland, tried an experiment At the start of every week for a year, Winky sent Susan a photograph of their children, of the street where they live as neighbors, and of other green places in Maine By the end of that week Susan sent a tiny story back that talked to the photograph Stop Here, This Is The Place tWinky Lewis and Susan Conley, a photographer and a writer in Portland, tried an experiment At the start of every week for a year, Winky sent Susan a photograph of their children, of the street where they live as neighbors, and of other green places in Maine By the end of that week Susan sent a tiny story back that talked to the photograph Stop Here, This Is The Place tells the story of a year in which children s arms and legs get longer, and traces of babyhood fade a year that feels interminable to a ten year old looking forward and fleeting to that ten year old s mother, who can always stop here, go back and remember This delightfully evocative gift book is a reminder to stop and enjoy the precious time we have with our kids while we have them Through Susan s recollections of moments from her childhood and the ongoing lives of her children, we re reminded of our own childhoods, and of the necessity to stop and pay attention, to hold on.
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Susan Conley is the author of Paris Was the Place Knopf, August 2013 , an Fall Big Books Pick for fiction, an Indie Next Pick, and an Elle Magazine Readers Prize Pick People magazine calls it a satisfying cassoulet of questions about home, comfort and love, served with a fresh perspective on a dazzling city while Booklist says that, Deftly exploring the complexities of friendship, family and commitment, Conley adroitly demonstrates her infectious passion for Paris through an extensive and intimate portrait of the inner workings concealed behind its seductive fa ade An American novelist, nonfiction writer, poet and creative writing professor, Susan s memoir, The Foremost Good Fortune Knopf 2011 , was excerpted in the New York Times Magazine and the Daily Beast It was an Oprah Magazine Top Ten Pick of the Month, a Slate Magazine Book of the Week and a finalist for the Choice Award It won the Maine Literary Award for Memoir Other work of hers has appeared in The New York Times Magazine, The Paris Review, The Huffington Post, Ploughshares, The Harvard Review and elsewhere Susan Conley has received fellowships from the MacDowell Colony, the Breadloaf Writers Conference, and the Massachusetts Arts Council A former faculty member at Emerson College, she has also taught at Colby College and Simmons College She currently teaches at the University of Southern Maine s Stonecoast MFA Program, and is the Jack Kerouac Visiting Writer at the University of Massachusetts at Lowell She s also the co founder of The Telling Room, a nonprofit creative writing lab in Portland, Maine, where she leads a variety of workshops.