Audrey Camp
writer. lover. climber.
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I specialize in personal essays, travel writing, technical writing, book reviews, and other works of creative non-fiction. You'll find me with pen in hand in cafés, parks, museums, and on trains. I'll write anywhere! However, my current studio is the second bedroom of my attic flat in Oslo. Where
To kindle a kinship with my readers, to answer their questions (all of which are also my own). Writing helps me to organize my thoughts and to make sense of things. Why
Writers spring from a common soil, enriched by all the beautiful, precise, and rousing writing that has come before and that continues to grow around them. Who
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Red Door ReviewsIn Brief: Tweet-sized offerings on book content and quality. Title, review, link, star rating. A rapier wit as space and context allow. Follow @RedDoorReviews on Twitter. A Visit from the Goon Squad
A rock album: each chapter a song. Non-linear, fresh, a new standard in literature.
Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail
A human heart rolled in the dust, still beating. An unapologetic story of self-salvation, earned by the mile.
In Cold Blood
The unmotivated slaughter of a family. More disturbing: Capote's proclivity for the criminal psyche.
Bleachers
A football story, told in Grisham's frank, knowledgeable brand of prose. But he should have stuck to crime.
Rebecca
"Last night I dreamt I went to Manderly again." A graceful haunting. #FridayReads #bookreview #classics
Say Uncle
A diamond of patience, to steal this poet's turn of phrase and apply it to her art. #NationalPoetryMonth
Contents May Have Shifted
Innovative use of short form. A mosaic of human errors & triumphs. A globe. #bookreview
Bel Canto
A plunge into the kind of plot which captivates in total, then ends both exquisitely and too soon.
The Help
Two beloved heroines; one necessary pie. Weighed down by dialect. Still, a good, quick read. #bookreview
Send Me Down a Miracle
Thou shalt make no graven image. A Southern yarn, a modern parable. #YA #bookreview
The Road from Coorain
In a dusty Australian landscape, this autobiography blooms with language and feminist insight.
The Servants' Quarters
A poor girl receives a wealthy neighbor’s bizarre commission, unravels her fate. #bookreview
The Egg and I
Betty v. The Olympic Mountains and 10,000 chickens: an epic battle of wits/wittiness. #bookreview
Desert Solitaire
Abbey’s “bloody rock.” An uncompromisingly artful elegy to America’s national parks. #bookreview
In the Lake of the Woods
A “sleight-of-body” work proving war can hide a man’s mind from itself. #bookreview
Into the Wild
Krakauer tracks the impetus, adventures, and tragic death of an uncommon wayfarer. #bookreview
Alice I Have Been
A retrospective, tables-turned Lolita. Celebrity & waning-memory the looking glass. #bookreview
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 Audrey Camp is a freelance writer and American expat living in Oslo, Norway.
She received her BA in English from UC Davis, her MFA in Creative Writing from Lesley University,
and her MA in English and American Literature at the University of Oslo.
Her work has appeared in a variety of magazines, literary journals, and anthologies, and she received the
Irrgrønn Flash Fiction Award at the Irish Literature Festival in Oslo in 2014. She is the co-author of
Startup Guide Oslo (October 2016) and
Startup Guide Vienna (March 2017),
each a comprehensive overview of the entrepreneurial scene in a fast-growing European capital.
Audrey has blogged about writing, climbing, travel, faith and motherhood for more than ten years at
The Girl Behind the Red Door,
and she has also written about expat life in a monthly column for The Foreigner.
In 2017, Audrey was elected Chair of Democrats Abroad Norway.
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