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Erika Schickel and Annabelle Gurwitch at Barnes & Noble @ The Grove

Posted on August 25, 2021 (August 25, 2021) by Erika

Come join us Thursday, September 2 at 7pm! Erika Schickel will be in conversation with Annabele Gurwitch, actor and author of “You’re Leaving When?” to discuss Erika’s memoir “The Big Hurt.” Barnes & Noble @ The Grove, Los Angeles […]

Listen to the Audiobook Excerpt (Read by Erika)

Posted on August 4, 2021 (August 4, 2021) by Erika

Listen to the book excerpt on Soundcloud. HachetteAudio · The Big Hurt by Erika Schickel Read by Author – Audiobook Excerpt This complex memoir shows what it was like growing up in the shadow of a literary father and a neglectful mother, getting thrown out of boarding school after being seduced by a teacher, and […]

The OC Register features The Big Hurt

Posted on July 20, 2021 by Erika

“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 […]

The Boston Globe: The unexpected price of reporting abuse: retaliation

Posted on July 20, 2021 by Erika

“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). […]