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The Part That Burns
Reading in Duluth
by, Jill Swenson
October 25, 2022

Award-winning author Jeannine Ouellette will be in Duluth at the end of October for two literary events — live and in-person, both free and open to the public. On Wednesday, October 26, Jeannine Ouellette will read from her memoir, The Part That Burns, at 6 pm in the Kathryn A. Martin Library Rotunda on the campus of the University of Minnesota-Duluth. Ouellette will share the… [Read More]

Filed Under: author events, book signing, Duluth, Jeannine Ouellette, Lake Superior, Minnesota, The Part That Burns
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The Part That Burns – A Book Giveaway
by, Jill Swenson
March 16, 2021

Jeannine Ouellette’s new memoir, The Part That Burns, has garnered critical acclaim since its release on February 1. Joyce Carol Oates called it “simply beautiful. Precisely imagined, poetically structured, compelling, and vivid.” Last week Ouellette joined Jo Ann Beard, Katherine Angel, Dantiel Moniz and Michele Filgate for a panel discussion on “Desire” for the Red Ink Series, sponsored by Books Are Magic bookstore in Brooklyn… [Read More]

Filed Under: Book Giveaway, Jeannine Ouellette, Magers & Quinn, The Part That Burns
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Becoming Our Whole Self – an Interview with Jeannine Ouellette
by, Audrey Arnold
December 15, 2020

You can tear a thing apart and tape it back together, and it will still be torn and whole. There is no other way. In her fiercely beautiful memoir, Jeannine Ouellette recollects fragments of her life and arranges them elliptically to witness each piece as torn and whole, as something more than itself. Caught between the dramatic landscapes of Lake Superior and Casper Mountain, between her stepfather’s… [Read More]

Filed Under: Elephant Rock, Jeannine Ouellette, Mama Moon, The Part That Burns, trauma and healing, writing mentor
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