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Mira Bartok

Mira Bartok
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Mira Bartok

Mira Bartók is a Chicago-born artist and the author of twenty-eight books for children. Her writing has appeared in several literary journals and anthologies and has been noted in The Best American Essays series. She lives in Western Massachusetts, where she runs Mira’s List, a blog that helps artists find funding and residencies all over the world. The Memory Palace is Mira’s first book for adults. You can find her at TheMemoryPalace.com.

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Sep 23, 2011
The Memory Palace will be released on August 09, 2011 in Trade Paperback
Aug 09, 2011
The Memory Palace is now available in Trade Paperback
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Jan 23, 2011
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Jan 19, 2011
The Memory Palace will be released on January 11, 2011 in Hardcover, eBook
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The Memory Palace is now available in Hardcover, eBook
Jan 11, 2011
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Yahoo! News, February 25, 2013
...“Prager bravely journeys across the globe to the place where, half his life ago, his world changed in one terrible instant. … Trust me—this story will linger with you for a long, long time." —Mira Bartók, author of The Memory Palace San...
Broadway World, February 18, 2013
...for an evening of poetry and conversation at the renowned bar, featuring award-winning writers Eric Morago, BH James, Mira Bartok and Katharine Coles. It will take place on March 15, 2013 at 7 p.m. The address is 85 East 4th Street NYC. Admission is...
Tulsa World, October 21, 2012
...Gish Jen's novel "World and Town" tells a simple story of a few months in a small New England town, when a family of Cambodian refugees moves in. But the novel is far from simple in its scope and theme. Most of the story is told from the point of view...
New York Times, October 18, 2012
...Streets, Boerum Hill; (347) 560-3641, theinvisibledog.org.) On Saturday four authors with recent memoirs Claude Arnaud, Gwenalle Aubry, Mira Bartok and Marco Roth will chat with Amanda Angel about how reconstructing a familys history can be a bit like...
Tulsa World, October 14, 2012
...If you're an armchair traveler, a seeker-of-truths, a lover of witty and impeccably crafted writing, Pam Houston's novel "Contents May Have Shifted" needs to be on your "must-read" list. But don't expect the kind of novel you read for high school...
Time Out New York, October 12, 2012
...For three seasons, the festival has been pairing French thinkers, artists and writers with their American counterparts. The fourth edition—which is run by culture institute Villa Gillet, based in Lyon—flies into New York on Thursday 11 with more than...
Tulsa World, October 4, 2012
...Is"). Other conference master teachers include novelist and short fiction writer Pam Houston, steampunk writer Gail Carriger, memoirst Mira Bartok, poet Kate Kingston, novelist Jack Smith and more than 30 other writers and editors. Among the...
88.5FM WFCR, May 2, 2013
...scholar N.C. Christopher Couch leads a conversation with Bruce Mutard, one of the featured graphic novelists, and Mira Bartok, NEPR commentator and author of The Memory Palace, about the film and the Australian graphic novel/comics scene...
Wicked Local Mattapoisett, January 17, 2013
...Thursday, Jan. 31. Just the Facts The nonfiction book discussion group will be reading The Memory Palace, by Mira Bartok. It is a poignant observation about the relationship between Mira, her sister, and their mentally ill mother. Norma Herr,...
Wicked Local Marion, January 17, 2013
...Thursday, Jan. 31. Just the Facts The nonfiction book discussion group will be reading The Memory Palace, by Mira Bartok. It is a poignant observation about the relationship between Mira, her sister, and their mentally ill mother. Norma Herr,...
Wicked Local Marion, January 10, 2013
...Thursday, Jan. 31. Just the Facts The nonfiction book discussion group will be reading The Memory Palace, by Mira Bartok. It is a poignant observation about the relationship between Mira, her sister, and their mentally ill mother. Norma Herr,...
Wicked Local Mattapoisett, January 10, 2013
...Thursday, Jan. 31. Just the Facts The nonfiction book discussion group will be reading The Memory Palace, by Mira Bartok. It is a poignant observation about the relationship between Mira, her sister, and their mentally ill mother. Norma Herr,...
Recorder.com, January 4, 2013
...I attended one a little over a year ago and had a wonderful time. I got to hear Mira Bartok read, though it wasn’t from her wonderful memoir, “The Memory Palace.” I HEAR THE STATE IS STILL WAITING for Northfield to design a town flag that would...
Wicked Local Mattapoisett, December 20, 2012
...2012-2013 session are: Dec. 20 – Little Princes, by Connor Grennan; Jan. 17 – The Memory Palace, by Mira Bartok; Feb. 21 – Elizabeth and Hazel: Two Woman of Little Rock, by David Margolick; March 21 – Fist Stick Knife Gun, by Geoffrey Canada;...