Chippewa Valley Book Festival - Hiding in Plain Sight: Embracing the Truth in Fiction

• Dates: October 12, 2023
• Location: L. E. Phillips Memorial Public Library
• Time: 5:00 PM to 6:00 PM
• Price: Registration information online

First novels are stereotypically autobiographical for a reason; while Ginsberg thought she was writing about made-up people in a made-up place, in the aftermath of finishing her first novel, she discovered how naive that viewpoint was, and why her blissful ignorance made for a better book. She will share how vulnerability forges connections between readers and writers, that it’s worth it to write the hard stuff, and that no writer or reader should feel as if their particular experience of the world isn’t interesting or valid.