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Interview
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Vanity Fair InterviewRead Now |
| “In Her Memoir The Big Hurt, Erika Schickel Reframes Her Own Turbulent Story.” | |
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Los Angeles Review of BooksRead Now “…sharp-tongued and darkly hilarious, [THE BIG HURT] is also one of the more relentlessly honest, big-hearted reckonings with abuse to come out of the #MeToo era.” |
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Press Play with Madeline BrandListen Now |
| “…bares all about her affairs with unobtainable men, her experience at a hippie East Coast boarding school, and the familial abandonment she’s experienced….” | |
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The Unspeakable Podcast with Meghan DaumListen Now |
| “Gen Xers and young Baby Boomers can be nostalgic about the freedoms of growing up in the 1970s. But there was a darker side to that era, too, especially for girls.” | |
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Video Interview
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The Douglas Coleman ShowWatch Now |
| “…a page-turning tale of betrayal and redemption, told with humor, vulnerability, and scintillating honesty…..” | |
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Let’s Keep It RealSandy Joy Weston M.Ed.Listen Now |
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BustRead Now |
| “…Instead of painting these memories as one-off acts or teenage experiments, Schickel confronts them at their deepest roots.” | |
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The Tom Sumner ProgramListen Now |
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The Femsplainers with Danielle CrittendenListen Now |
| “…a powerful, painfully personal memoir of the time when moms and dads took a pass on parenting to live for themselves…” | |
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KTRS 550 amListen Now |
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The Roundtable on WAMCListen Now |
| “…provocative, searing, and darkly funny…” | |
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Kim Carson NOWWatch Now |
| “What if all along she had been a very hurt girl trying to survive in a predatory world.” | |
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Shelf AwarenessRead Now |
| “In the pain-drenched but clear-sighted The Big Hurt, Schickel takes a microscope to her choices and to the social forces that facilitated them.” | |
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Publishers WeeklyRead Now |
| “Stirring… The probing examination of love and acceptance crackles with intensity. Schickel’s raw honesty makes this hard to put down.” | |
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Kirkus ReviewsRead Now |
| “Well written. . . occasionally hilarious. . . an affecting portrait of a vicious, repetitive cycle.” | |
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Library JournalRead Now |
| “The author writes about cycles of bad choices and personal trauma with notable humor and poetic rawness….readers drawn to women’s stories of struggle, self-destruction, and attempted recovery will likely be wholly absorbed.” | |
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Air MailRead Now |
| “Schickel has a terrific eye for detail, an acute ear for dialogue, and a capacity not to forgive and forget but to remember, understand, and move on.” | |
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Article
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The Boston GlobeRead Now |
| “Erika Schickel was asked to leave Buxton School in Williamstown in 1982 after school officials discovered her relationship with a teacher. “The top priority . . . was to get rid of me,” she said.” | |
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The Orange County RegisterRead Now |
| “…at first it’s a heady cocktail for a middle-aged hausfrau in plastic Crocs. However, in the process of the increasingly sordid affair, painful family breakup and, as always, trying to write, she begins to unwind the legacy of her own mother.” | |
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Podcast
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StoryWorthy with Christine BlackburnListen Now |
| “The Big Hurt confronts the trope of the bad girl/tainted woman in a society that judges her harshly but rarely asks what happened to make her bad.” | |