6/7/2023 0 Comments Excavation wendy ortiz![]() ![]() Linearity doesn’t always work for the narrative, though it does serve Excavation well, but only because embedded within the story of the 5-year relationship (1986-1991) between an adolescent woman and a teacher 15 years her senior, there are glimpses (called “Notes on an Excavation”) which are flash-forwards to the narrator’s life in college, in a professional career, in the role of a mother, etc. One of the many challenges to writing a memoir is structuring it. She co-founded the Rhapsodomancy Reading Series, which she’s been curating and hosting since 2004. I Brooklyn, The Nervous Breakdown, The Rumpus, and other journals. She wrote a year-long, monthly column for McSweeney’s Internet Tendency, and her work has appeared in The New York Times, Vol. Ortiz is a writer born and raised in Los Angeles. ![]() Excavation: A Memoir, Future Tense Books, 2014. ![]()
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