Thursday, October 10, 2024 Saint Paul Public Library
Saturday, October 5, 2024 Sauk Centre High School, Sauk Centre, Minnesota
Antonin Dvorak’s summer 1893 stay in Spillville, Iowa is the point of departure for this collaboration between Ms. Hampl and artist Steven Sorman. “Ms. Hampl’s prose is enchanting; Mr. Sorman’s art is elegant.” The New Yorker “Ms. Hampl succeeds wonderfully……. Continue Reading →
July 6 – July 31, 2024 Member of the permanent faculty
August 10 – 20, 2016
Newsday’s Favorite Books 2007 Minnesota Book Award Winner Midwest Booksellers’ Association Choice Award Honor Book “The result is electric and alive, containing a fire her mother would surely recognize and a beauty her father would approve . . . . …. Continue Reading →
This meditation on the odalisque figure in Western art opens with Patricia Hampl’s discovery, as a young woman, of a Matisse painting in the Chicago Art Institute: an aloof woman gazing at goldfish in a bowl, a mysterious Moroccan screen… Continue Reading →
In this timely collection, Ms. Hampl “weaves personal stories and grand ideas into shimmering bolts of prose” (Minneapolis Star Tribune) as she considers the habit of autobiographical writing that enchants and bedevils her. Hampl reflects on her family’s response to… Continue Reading →
This memoir, described by Doris Grumbach as “unusually elegant and meditative,” is once more available with an updated “Afterword” by the author. Golden Prague seemed mostly gray when Ms. Hampl first went there during the dark days of the Cold… Continue Reading →
Eager to shake off the indelible brand of a Catholic upbringing, Patricia Hampl seeks the “old world” of Catholicism. On her pilgrimage to Saint Francis’s Assisi, she meets other seekers–crotchety English agnostics, American friars and nuns, and the ardent souls… Continue Reading →
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