Louise Steinman
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Louise Steinman

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Louise Steinman is a writer and literary curator. Her work frequently deals with memory, history and reconciliation. Her book, The Souvenir: A Daughter Discovers Her Father's War, was cited as 'A graceful, understated memoir' that draws its strength from the complexities it explores.' (New York Times Book Review) 'an intimate and powerful story of the effects of war.' James Bradley, author, Flags of Our Fathers). The book won the 2002 Gold Medal in Autobiography/Memoir from ForeWord Magazine and has been the selection of all-city and all-freshman reading programs. The book chronicles her quest to return a war 'souvenir' to its owner and-- in the process-- illuminates how war changed one generation and shaped another. She is also the author of "The Crooked Mirror: A Memoir of Polish-Jewish Reconciliation" (Beacon Press) and the Knowing Body: The Artist As Storyteller in Contemporary Performance (Shambhala/North Atlantic) , based on her decades as a dance critic, performer, and director. She was the founder and for 25 years the curator of the award-winning ALOUD at Central Library series for the Los Angeles Public Library. She is the Co-director of the Los Angeles Institute of the Humanities at USC. She now works as an independent literary curator for various institutions. She recently edited the collectively sourced anthology (with illustrations by Beth Thielen), COUNTRY GONE MISSING: Nightmares in the Time of Trump, as a fundraiser for Swing Left. Her writing has been anthologized widely. She is a contributing editor to the Los Angeles Review of Books. Her most recent essay there is "Time Regained: Reading Jozef Czapski in Billings Montana," about Proust, the Gulag, and the salvation of reading. You can find her blog at www.crookedmirror.wordpress.com
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