‘People want to hear stories. Stories bring facts to life’
October 2, 2026
By Jennifer Zittnan news@thewoodstockindependent.com Book critic, author and professor opens CreativeLiving series Maureen Corrigan, author, professor, prior juror for the Pulitzer Prize in Fiction and book critic on NPR’s “Fresh Air,” will give her presentation, “Leave Me Alone, I’m Reading,” on Oct. 15 at the Woodstock Opera House as part of the Creative Living series. Corrigan published a literary memoir in 2005 titled “Leave Me Alone, I’m Reading.” She served as one of three jurors for the 2012 Pulitzer Prize in Fiction. In 2014 she published “So We Read On: How The Great Gatsby Came To Be and Why It Endures.” More recently she was invited to create a course titled “Banned Books, Burned Books: Forbidden Literary Works” for Great
