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To be a writer, one must be a reader.
To be a writer, one must be a reader. Most authors begin their journey in childhood, enamored with books. David Giffels reflects on his own early experiences in libraries and bookstores and discusses how reading plays a vital part in the writing craft. He’ll recommend books about the writing process, as well as suggestions for how to select reading that enhances style and technique. He’ll also talk about the role of music-listening in creative practice. Finally, he wants to hear about the books that inspire you, and why.
About the William N. Skirball Writers' Center's Writer in Residence, 2018-2019
David Giffels’s latest memoir, Furnishing Eternity: A Father, a Son, a Coffin, and a Measure of Life, was praised by the New York Times Book Review as “tender, witty and ... painstakingly and subtly wrought,” and by Kirkus Reviews as “a heartfelt memoir about the connection between a father and son.” It was a January 2018 Book of the Month pick by Amazon and Powell’s Books and a New York Times Book Review “Editors’ Choice.”
His previous books include The Hard Way on Purpose: Essays and Dispatches From the Rust Belt, and the memoir All the Way Home, winner of the Ohioana Book Award. He is the coauthor, with Jade Dellinger, of the rock biography Are We Not Men? We Are Devo! and, with Steve Love, Wheels of Fortune: The Story of Rubber in Akron.
A former Akron Beacon Journal columnist, his writing has appeared in the New York Times Magazine, the Atlantic, Parade, the Wall Street Journal, Esquire, Grantland, Redbook, and many other publications. He also was a writer for the MTV series Beavis and Butt-Head.
He is an associate professor of English at the University of Akron, where he teaches creative nonfiction in the Northeast Ohio Master of Fine Arts Program.
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