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The Rumpus Interview with Elizabeth Scarboro and Lidia Yuknavitch by Roxane Gay

03 Apr 2013|

The RumpusWhat do you look for in a memoir? What stands out to you as “good?”

Lidia YuknavitchI look for the moment(s) in the story where the writer risked abandoning the glory of the self in favor of the possible relationship with an other. I don’t ever let the market tell me what a memoir is. The first best memoir I ever read was Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman. See what I mean? I also thought of The Lover by Marguerite Duras as a memoir. Most of Carole Maso’s books and Kathy...Forward

The Plumas Weekly: Feather River College’s Online Newspaper on Lidia Yuknavitch

02 Apr 2013|

Simply stated: She is important. Read. Her. Now.—Margaret Elysia Garcia

To read the entire post go to The Pumas Weekly.

Kait from the PDXX Collective interviews Lidia Yuknavitch

07 Mar 2013|

KaitWhat does sex do for a story?

Lidia I come from such a weird angle because I think desire and sexuality are in language. My job is to find the writing path that will surface that idea. In a way, I’m a little bit against the inserted sex scene because I don’t think that it happens in our bodies and real life, so why should we do that in our writing? The Americanized, market-driven sex scene dislocates sex from our real experience. I teach a workshop on sex, death, and memoir. The first...Forward

100 Great Nonfiction Books: must-read works of narrative nonfiction and journalism

04 Mar 2013|

The Electric Typewriter chose The Chronology of Water as one of its picks for 100 Great Nonfiction Books!

“Lidia Yuknavitch’s The Chronology of Water is the kind of book that people don’t just read, but become converted to.”

13 Feb 2013|

From Valerie Stivers-Isakova review of The Chronology of Water at the Huffington Post.


The Goodreads reviews (over 1000 ratings, over 300 actual reviews) say things like “this book is holy” and “I am sitting here in a dazed stupor.” I myself have so far bought five, and keep giving them to people. I keep describing the book as “fiction,” though, and then at some point in the conversation I’ll recall myself and say, “well, it’s a memoir, actually,” and then the person’s eyes glaze over. And...Forward

The Chronology of Water is a PEN Center Finalist

27 Aug 2012|

Lidia Yuknavitch’s memoir The Chronology of Water was named a finalist for the PEN Center USA’s Creative Nonfiction award.

The award eventually went to Eavan Boland for his book A Journey with Two Maps, published by W.W. Norton & Co.

Ms. Yuknavitch was joined as a finalist by Jonathan Lethem (The Ecstasy of Influence, Doubleday) and David Van (Last Day on Earth, University of Georgia Press).

The Chronology of Water named “Reader’s Choice” at 2012 Oregon Book Awards

01 Feb 2012|

​Lidia Yuknavtich’s memoir, The Chronology of Water, won the Reader’s Choice prize at the 2012 Oregon Book Awards.

The Chronology of Water honored by the Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association

10 Jan 2011|

Lidia Yuknavtich’s memoir, The Chronology of Water has been selected by the Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association for its 2012 Book Awards.