“In Schickel’s telling, at first it’s a heady cocktail for a middle-aged hausfrau in plastic Crocs. However, in the process of increasingly the sordid affair, painful family breakup and, as always, trying to write, she begins to unwind the legacy of her own mother.” Read the full piece on The Orange County Register website, or […]

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“Erika Schickel was asked to leave Buxton School in Williamstown in 1982 after school officials discovered her relationship with a teacher. “The top priority . . . was to get rid of me,” she said. Read the full piece on The Boston Globe website, or here (PDF). […]

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From Publishers Marketplace: Book critic, essayist and frequent contributor to the Los Angeles Times and the LA Review of Books, Erika Schickel’s THE BIG HURT, a searing memoir about a  young woman, growing up unsupervised in 1970’s New York in the shadow of culturally elite parents, whose seduction by a boarding school teacher gets her kicked out and […]

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