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
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
My View: This Week’s Best Memoir News 8/22/16
THERE IS LOTS OF MEMOIR NEWS this week and, at least according to me, all of it is good. The New York Times has announced a new weekly column in the form of an essay on a topic that is long overdue … [Read more...] about My View: This Week’s Best Memoir News 8/22/16
Five Reasons For Writers to Read Book Reviews
"WHY SHOULD I READ BOOK REVIEWS?" A client asked me this recently. Let me count the reasons why writers should read book reviews, for there are many, starting with the simplest and most direct of them … [Read more...] about Five Reasons For Writers to Read Book Reviews
My View: This Week’s Best Memoir News 8/15/16
LIKE MANY OTHER PEOPLE I KNOW, I have spent much of this summer reading the 1,600 plus pages of Elena Ferrante’s four Neopolitan novels. And like all of those people, I have simultaneously watched the … [Read more...] about My View: This Week’s Best Memoir News 8/15/16
My View: The Week’s Best Memoir News 6/10/16
The way The New York Review of Books sees it, some are born to be warriors, or so it is written in a recent essay on a warrior memoir. What do you think? And does the same apply to other professions … [Read more...] about My View: The Week’s Best Memoir News 6/10/16