Nell Casey This is Me

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1. 1. In The Margins

   www.bookmagazine.com/issue15/i - [Cached]

   Published on: 1/25/2003   Last Visited: 1/25/2003

   This approach appears to be fruitful: Not only did Maud's sister Nell Casey compile the anthology and contribute to it, Maud's essay even uses direct quotes from the journal kept by their mother, writer Jane Barnes. (It doesn't stop there: Rounding out the group is father/writer/ professor John Casey.)
   
   But none of the characters in Maud's new novel (The Shape of Things to Come, to be released in April) is directly modeled on a family member, she says. "The main character started in me, grew out of me-but I enjoyed how much she wasn't me."
   
   Nell and Maud agree that growing up in a household of writers set the stage for their career choices, which Maud came to from the get-go, and which Nell (currently an editor at Self magazine) chose later. Nell and Maud agree that growing up in a household of writers set the stage for their career choices, which Maud came to from the get-go, and which Nell (currently an editor at Self magazine) chose later.

2. 2. The Los Angeles Times on the Little Gray Book Lectures

   www.littlegraybooks.com/latime - [Cached]

   Published on: 5/1/2002   Last Visited: 1/31/2008

   Nell Casey is familiar with this phenomenon. "Writers, I thought, were this shy breed that write because they don't do well in structures or formats or with people. And then, suddenly, they're up there with top hats and canes." Casey, an editor at Self magazine and the daughter of novelist John Casey, is referring to the transformation of writers-and firemen, lawyers and assorted everyday people-that takes place at the Moth, New York's roving "urban storytelling" evening.

3. 3. In The Margins

   www.bookmagazine.com/issue15/i - [Cached]

   Published on: 8/24/2002   Last Visited: 8/24/2002

   This approach appears to be fruitful: Not only did Maud's sister Nell Casey compile the anthology and contribute to it, Maud's essay even uses direct quotes from the journal kept by their mother, writer Jane Barnes. (It doesn't stop there: Rounding out the group is father/writer/ professor John Casey.)
   
   But none of the characters in Maud's new novel (The Shape of Things to Come, to be released in April) is directly modeled on a family member, she says. "The main character started in me, grew out of me-but I enjoyed how much she wasn't me."
   
   Nell and Maud agree that growing up in a household of writers set the stage for their career choices, which Maud came to from the get-go, and which Nell (currently an editor at Self magazine) chose later. Nell and Maud agree that growing up in a household of writers set the stage for their career choices, which Maud came to from the get-go, and which Nell (currently an editor at Self magazine) chose later.