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Lynn Melnick on Her Memoir

Lynn Melnick on 'I’ve Had to Think Up a Way to Survive Trauma, Persistence, and Dolly Parton'

In this 92NY virtual reading, Lynn Melnick speaks about how Dolly Parton’s songs helped shape the structure of her memoir, I’ve Had to Think Up a Way to Survive: On Trauma, Persistence, and Dolly Parton (University of Texas Press, 2022), in a conversation with poet Deborah Paredez.

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92NY
Lynn Melnick
I've Had to Think Up a Way to Survive
memoir
University of Texas Press
Deborah Paredez
Dolly Parton
music
2022

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