Audrey Camp
writer. lover. climber.
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I specialize in personal essays, travel writing, technical writing, book reviews, and other works of creative non-fiction. You'll find me with pen in hand in cafés, parks, museums, and on trains. I'll write anywhere! However, my current studio is the second bedroom of my attic flat in Oslo. Where
To kindle a kinship with my readers, to answer their questions (all of which are also my own). Writing helps me to organize my thoughts and to make sense of things. Why
Writers spring from a common soil, enriched by all the beautiful, precise, and rousing writing that has come before and that continues to grow around them. Who
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Red Door ReviewsIn Brief: Tweet-sized offerings on book content and quality. Title, review, link, star rating. A rapier wit as space and context allow. Follow @RedDoorReviews on Twitter. A Visit from the Goon Squad
A rock album: each chapter a song. Non-linear, fresh, a new standard in literature.
Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail
A human heart rolled in the dust, still beating. An unapologetic story of self-salvation, earned by the mile.
In Cold Blood
The unmotivated slaughter of a family. More disturbing: Capote's proclivity for the criminal psyche.
Bleachers
A football story, told in Grisham's frank, knowledgeable brand of prose. But he should have stuck to crime.
Rebecca
"Last night I dreamt I went to Manderly again." A graceful haunting. #FridayReads #bookreview #classics
Say Uncle
A diamond of patience, to steal this poet's turn of phrase and apply it to her art. #NationalPoetryMonth
Contents May Have Shifted
Innovative use of short form. A mosaic of human errors & triumphs. A globe. #bookreview
Bel Canto
A plunge into the kind of plot which captivates in total, then ends both exquisitely and too soon.
The Help
Two beloved heroines; one necessary pie. Weighed down by dialect. Still, a good, quick read. #bookreview
Send Me Down a Miracle
Thou shalt make no graven image. A Southern yarn, a modern parable. #YA #bookreview
The Road from Coorain
In a dusty Australian landscape, this autobiography blooms with language and feminist insight.
The Servants' Quarters
A poor girl receives a wealthy neighbor’s bizarre commission, unravels her fate. #bookreview
The Egg and I
Betty v. The Olympic Mountains and 10,000 chickens: an epic battle of wits/wittiness. #bookreview
Desert Solitaire
Abbey’s “bloody rock.” An uncompromisingly artful elegy to America’s national parks. #bookreview
In the Lake of the Woods
A “sleight-of-body” work proving war can hide a man’s mind from itself. #bookreview
Into the Wild
Krakauer tracks the impetus, adventures, and tragic death of an uncommon wayfarer. #bookreview
Alice I Have Been
A retrospective, tables-turned Lolita. Celebrity & waning-memory the looking glass. #bookreview
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 Audrey Camp is a freelance writer and American expat living in Oslo, Norway. She received her MFA in Creative Writing from Lesley University in June 2012. Audrey's essay, "Orientation", was published by Holland House as part of North of the Sun, South of the Moon: New Voices from Norway, a multi-genre anthology from the Oslo International Writers' Group. Her essays have also appeared in a variety of literary journals, and her popular blog, The Girl Behind the Red Door, has been running for more than eight years. Recently, Audrey worked as the Editorial Assistant for Adventum; she also spent ten months as a blogger for Sweet Lemon Magazine's blog, The Zesty Digest. Audrey and her husband enjoy rock climbing, hiking, and cross-country skiing in Norway's vibrant countryside. Contact Audrey
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