INTERVIEW: Kelly McMasters, Welcome to Shirley: A Memoir from an Atomic Town
Sunday, May 11th, 2008Kelly McMasters’ first memoir, Welcome to Shirley, is more than an account of her childhood—it’s a portrait of the town in which she was raised. Kelly, a journalist and writing professor at Columbia University, traveled back to Shirley, New York, a working class Long Island town that has been repeatedly touched by tragedy. She slowly [...]