Common Reading Initiative at Penn State Altoona for First-year Students
Penn State Altoona is pleased to announce that E. M. Liddick’s memoir, All the Memories that Remain: War, Alzheimer’s, and the Search for a Way Home, is the Common Read selection for the 2024–2025 academic year.
This memoir, written by a former Penn State Altoona student, has been described as “unflinching” and “vulnerable,” as it “stands witness to one man's fall from grace and his journey to find meaning in what remains.”
Its topics of grief, PTSD, anxiety, veteran's issues and awareness, and Alzheimer’s will resonate with our campus community and inspire important discussions.
Born and raised in a rural, blue-collar community in central Pennsylvania, Liddick graduated from Penn State and holds a juris doctor from Tulane. He is a veteran of the Marine Corps Reserves and the Army's elite 75th Ranger Regiment.
His work has appeared in MilitaryTimes, Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, The Moving Force Journal, UltraRunning magazine, War on the Rocks, The War Horse, and Thought Catalog.