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Podcast Appearance
A Conversation with Arrowsmith Press
Listen to a discussion on the craft of writing and The Silence of Your Name: The Afterlife of a Suicide. Recorded in November 2021.
Hear the #conversation between #author #AlexandraMarshall and interviewer Maddie Kaprich in which they discuss the craft of writing & her memoir The Silence of Your Name: The Afterlife of a Suicide, published by Arrowsmith last fall: https://t.co/fBSW4AHSev#TheSilenceofYourName pic.twitter.com/aGo2v68BI5
— Arrowsmith Press (@arrowsmithpress) June 14, 2022
New Memoir
The Silence of Your Name: The Afterlife of a Suicide
Arrowsmith Press will be publishing Alexandra's new memoir, The Silence of Your Name: The Afterlife of a Suicide, which includes two pieces excerpted here, "The Afterlife of a Suicide" (originally published in The American Scholar, winter 2021), and "The Ultimate Alchemy," (originally published in Ploughshares, winter 2020/2021).
Publication is scheduled for Fall 2021.
Boston Common magazine, Summer 2012
"Boston Beauties"
When novelist Lexa Marshall moved to Boston 35 years ago, after traveling from her hometown in New York to Ghana to New Haven, she intended it to be temporary. But it was here that she met her husband, fellow writer James Carroll. Together they started their family and writing careers in Beacon Hill. Marshall is the author of five novels and one book of nonfiction, and she has taught writing at several universities in the city.
Age: 68. I'm most proud of: My kids and my books. Boston inspiration: The Public Garden, Esplanade, and the Harborwalk. My beauty philosophy: Beauty is as beauty does. Secret of my success: Let it be. Cause closest to my heart: The Max Warburg Courage Curriculum in the Boston Public Schools. Would want my eulogy to be: Reading from my books, by my writer friends. Favorite feature: My eyes. This decade: I hope to achieve more of the same, especially to stay healthy. Won't be seen without: Cashmere. New discovery: Fort Point Channel as the Innovation District. I stay in shape by: Practicing Gyrotonics. Advice to my 16-year-old self: Resist authority—a slogan that never goes out of style.