What Ever: A Living Novel by Heather Woodbury + Author Profile [in Bloomsbury Review]
01 May, by in Adult Readers, Author Interview/Profile, Drama/Theater, Fiction, Nonethnic-specific, Repost
Listening to the Voices on the Street: A Profile of Performance Artist & Novelist Heather Woodbury
What would eventually become What Ever: A Living Novel first began as a behemoth dare. In 1994, Heather Woodbury, a performance...
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