“Life experiences shape Scott Nadelson’s writing, teaching,” Willamette University
Scott Nadelson’s life began unraveling in 2004, when his fiancée left him for a drag king a month before their wedding.
That’s when he took up residence in a drafty attic. The brakes went out in his car, and he learned his cat was dying.
For two years, Nadelson struggled to reassert himself — enduring a slew of awkward dates and personal missteps along the way. Accounts of these experiences are shared in his new memoir, “The Next Scott Nadelson: A Life in Progress.”
Nominated for an Oregon Book Award, the book not only reveals a vulnerable and comic glimpse into Nadelson’s life, it’s helped this Willamette University English professor with his teaching.
“I don’t think I would have started writing nonfiction if I wasn’t teaching it,” says Nadelson, who’s taught at Willamette for 10 years. “I feel like I see my students take more risks and adventuring more in nonfiction than in any other genre. That’s spurred me along, and I think I’ve been able to spur them along also.”
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