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(Part VI) Alison Winfield-Burns memoir

Alison Winfield Burns

Alison Winfield-Burns memoir

This is the final excerpt and contains chapters 11-Denouement. Here are all of the installments: Part I · Part II · Part III · Part IV · Part V · Part … [Read more...]

(Part V) Alison Winfield-Burns memoir

Alison Winfield Burns

Alison Winfield-Burns memoir

This excerpt contains chapters 8-10. Here are all of the installments: Part I · Part II · Part III · Part IV · Part V · Part VI 8. Homeless … [Read more...]

(Part IV) Alison Winfield-Burns memoir

Alison Winfield Burns

Alison Winfield-Burns memoir

This excerpt contains chapter 7, in which Alison spends time at the Kerouac School in Boulder, then continues her adventures in Rome. Here are all of the installments: Part I · Part II … [Read more...]

(Part III) Alison Winfield-Burns memoir

Alison Winfield Burns

Alison Winfield-Burns memoir

This excerpt contains chapters 5 and 6, which detail Alison's experiences at the Kerouac School in the early 1980s and her later homelessness at Columbia University. Here are all of the … [Read more...]

(Part II) Alison Winfield-Burns memoir

Alison Winfield Burns

Alison Winfield-Burns memoir

This excerpt contains the middle of Chapter 2 through the beginning of Chapter 5, starting with childhood and going up to Alison's arrival in the early 1980s at the Kerouac School. Here are all … [Read more...]

(Part I) Alison Winfield-Burns memoir

Alison Winfield Burns

Alison Winfield-Burns memoir

This is the first excerpt of six. Here are all of the installments: Part I · Part II · Part III · Part IV · Part V · Part VI (Part I) The School(girl) of … [Read more...]

Book Review — Ivy League Bohemians

Joshua Preston

Ivy League Bohemians by Alison Winfield Burns

Note: Ivy League Bohemians is no longer available. However, Alison's new book on the same topic, The Jack Kerouac School(girl) of Disembodied Poetics, has been serialized in Empty Mirror. It is an … [Read more...]

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Established in 2000 and edited by Denise Enck, Empty Mirror is an online literary magazine that publishes new work each Friday.

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