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District 798: Whose Story Is It? — A Show of New Work Inspired by China’s Xiong Collective

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<div class="at-above-post-homepage addthis_tool" data-url="https://blog.lareviewofbooks.org/events/shedding-light-house-scardale-memoir-stage/"></div>By <a href="https://lareviewofbooks.org/contributor/dinah-lenney">Dinah Lenney</a>
“I’ve been trying to write about my family. Our family. Like it’s a mystery, which it is to me. Trying to answer the question of, you know — What happened? ” 
– Dan, in The House in Scarsdale: A Memoir for the Stage
I’m trying to answer a question, too — the question of, you know, why do I love this play as much as I do? What makes this play — now running (in its world premiere) at the <a href="http://www.bostoncourt.com/events/310/the-house-in-scarsdale-a-memoir-for-the-stage">Boston Court Performing Arts Center in Pasadena</a> — so moving? So exciting, so engaging, so affirming, so, so, so — so good — <a href="https://blog.lareviewofbooks.org/events/shedding-light-house-scardale-memoir-stage/#more-4214" class="more-link">Read more</a>
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Shedding the Light — The House in Scardale: A Memoir for the Stage

Dinah Lenney&nbsp;is&nbsp;the author of&nbsp;The Object Parade&nbsp;(2014) and&nbsp;Bigger than Life: A Murder, a Memoir&nbsp;(2007), and co-editor of Brief Encounters: A Collection of Contemporary Nonfiction&nbsp;(co-editor, 2015). She serves as core faculty in the Bennington Writing Seminars, and as an editor-at-large for&nbsp;LARB.&nbsp;Her latest book is&nbsp;Coffee (Bloomsbury, 2020).

Dinah Lenney

Try Inventing a World: A Conversation with Rachel Pastan

"Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities. Truth isn't." — Mark Twain

Fiction

A Slantwise Approach: A Conversation with Martha Cooley

Roll Call: A Conversation with Amy Gerstler

"I have nothing to say, and I am saying it, and that is poetry." — John Cage

Poetry

Going with the Whimsy: A Conversation with Dinty W. Moore

"The older one grows, the more one likes indecency." — Virginia Woolf

Memoir &amp; Essay

I Knocked on the Window and Waved: An Interview with Suleika Jaouad

I Drew on Every Role I’ve Ever Played: A Conversation with Armin Shimerman

Finding My Way: A Conversation with Alden Jones

"Writing only leads to more writing." — Colette

Literary Criticism

"As far as I'm concerned, being any gender is a drag." — Patti Smith

Gender &amp; Sexuality

Objectifying and Strange: Dinah Lenney interviews Jessica Gross

Altered States

"There is nothing more poetic and terrible than the skyscrapers' battle with the heavens that cover them." — Federico García Lorca

Nonfiction

"Culture is an instrument wielded by professors to manufacture professors." — Simone Weil

Cultural Studies

WriteGirl Has My Heart: A Conversation with Keren Taylor

Adults are just obsolete children and the hell with them.
— Dr. Seuss

Young Adult &amp; Children’s Literature

I Could Not Even Trust My Own Mind: Dinah Lenney Interviews JoeAnn Hart

The Problem of the Now: A Conversation with Sally Ashton

Dinah Lenney&nbsp;is&nbsp;the author of&nbsp;The Object Parade&nbsp;(2014) and&nbsp;Bigger than Life: A Murder, a Memoir&nbsp;(2007), and co-editor of Brief Encounters: A Collection of Contemporary Nonfiction&nbsp;(co-editor, 2015). She serves as core faculty in the Bennington Writing Seminars, and as an editor-at-large for&nbsp;LARB.&nbsp;Her latest book is&nbsp;Coffee (Bloomsbury, 2020).