MY FOUR FAVORITE RECENT MEMOIR are all by women. However, they could not possibly be more different – the women and the books – except that they are all truth-telling, with strong voices, fine … [Read more...] about New Memoir to Read
New Memoir to Read, 3 from La La Land
IN THE RUN-UP to the holidays it seemed like there was no new memoir to read. Uh oh, I thought. This was not good. And then things changed. “Ah,” I said yesterday, as I read through my Google search … [Read more...] about New Memoir to Read, 3 from La La Land
A List of Great New Memoir To Read
MAKING THAT NEW YEAR resolution to write memoir? Let me help you. Here is some new memoir to read that will teach, inspire, inform and otherwise provoke you to get to work. The first is from two … [Read more...] about A List of Great New Memoir To Read
What Is A Memoir? Does it Matter? It Does, to Author Maggie Nelson
MY DAUGHTER GAVE ME a book I do not understand. It’s a wonderful feeling. Settling into bed last night, my first night with it, I was thrown out from under my comforter and tossed into a place of … [Read more...] about What Is A Memoir? Does it Matter? It Does, to Author Maggie Nelson
Five New Memoirs To Read
READING IS A TEAM SPORT, one that takes a village of people in which we pass, hand-to-hand or by word of mouth, the books we love. I had two books literally pressed into my hand this week, both gifts … [Read more...] about Five New Memoirs To Read
What is “Essayistic Memoir” and Who Gets To Write it?
AS A MEMOIR COACH, I work with clients all over the world, teasing out their stories, reading whole manuscripts, restructuring works, performing content edits, serving as a writing coach, cajoling … [Read more...] about What is “Essayistic Memoir” and Who Gets To Write it?