Heard this piece titled "Note to Sixth-grade Self" on our local NPR today, in a program called Re:sound.
While driving to a store, I flipped on the radio, and heard an audio rendition of Julie Orringer's "Note To Sixth Grade Self." I was mesmerized by the story of the social outcast, and her everyday struggles with her mean classmates. Even after reaching the store, I waited in the car in the parking lot until the reading ended.
Upon searching the Web, I learned that it had been published in The Paris Review. I liked the piece so much that I am now thinking of getting her book "How To Breathe Underwater."
If this link works, you can hear it in MP3.
Saturday, February 18, 2006
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I love "Note to 6th grade self." In school we read it, and though many of my peers found it boring, I choses it to do my paper on. The older voice instructing her younger self to become independent of the seduction of popularity rings a note to all those who try too hard to become what they are not.
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