My guest this week is Lisa K. Richter, who has written an elegant multi-form memoir meets biography, a book constructed in a series of short, impressionist, lyrical recollections and insights, portraits and meditations, all with music in the background and, indeed, in the foreground. In Fly, My Darling, Richter both condenses and expands, simultaneously, on an unlikely love story, one so meaningful and transformative that perhaps this multi-form collage of document, journal, poetry, family history and grief chronicle --- and again, always with music --- could be told only and most vividly in gorgeous fragments which, finally, in their combining, produce a full, rich portrait of both self and subject.It’s the story of Lisa Richter and Lynda Roth, of a piano student and her teacher, of lovers, of a caregiver and the commitments demanded of love. Finally, the book esteems and celebrates the lost lover and, in its telling, introduces us to a writer who has used everything she has to find her own art and identity.Music: Hot Nights by DreamAudioThe views expressed in this program are those of its presenter and guests, and do not necessarily reflect the values of the Community of Writers or its Board of Directors.

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