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DIRT: The Quirks, Habits, and Passions of Keeping House, edited by Mindy Lewis, is a collection of stories which take a multidimensional look at the universal challenge of keeping our stuff, our dwellings, and our personal space clean and uncluttered. The book explores how our feelings about keeping house speak volumes about who we are, our roots, relationships, and our outlook on life. 292 pages.
Mindy Lewis is the author of Life Inside: A Memoir (Atria Books 2002, Washington Square Press 2003), which was named a Book of the Year by the American Journal of Nursing, an ELLE magazine “Must Read”, and received a starred Kirkus review. Her essays have been published in Newsweek, Lilith, Poets & Writers, and Body & Soul magazines, as well as anthologies. She enjoys leaving the creative clutter in her Upper West Side apartment to teach workshops in memoir, nonfiction, and cross-genre writing at The Writer's Voice, annual seminars at Empire State College, and recently taught an undergraduate course in writing nonfiction prose at Brooklyn College. She has given readings, panels and presentations at a variety of colleges, universities, and conferences. Lewis lives in New York.
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