MY HUSBAND SINGS in a large chorale group, providing me on a regular basis with music of the season. Most recently what filled my home was the music of Easter, whose own particular brand of adulation … [Read more...] about Required Reading: What to Read to Learn to Write Memoir? Calvin Trillin.
Recommended Memoirs: New Books. Read and Learn How To Write Memoir
NEW ON MY NIGHTSIDE TABLE are three books I read about in recent editions of The New Yorker. All sounded wonderful in those mini-reviews, as well as to be books from which we could all learn a thing … [Read more...] about Recommended Memoirs: New Books. Read and Learn How To Write Memoir
Recommended Reading: “Her” A Memoir by Christa Paravanni
LISTENING TO THE RADIO recently, I heard an announcer introduce someone who had written a “memoir,” and I swear the announcer spat out the word, making it an expletive, heightening it with invective. … [Read more...] about Recommended Reading: “Her” A Memoir by Christa Paravanni
Recommended Reading: Cookbooks with a Side Order of Memoir
A SIDE ORDER OF DISH is my favorite single ingredient in any cookbook. I mean I love it when people cook and tell. And therefore, I love memoir cookbooks. Don’t you? … [Read more...] about Recommended Reading: Cookbooks with a Side Order of Memoir
Recommended Memoirs: Gerald Durrell
IT'S THE BIRTHDAY in 1925 of Gerald Durrell, officially referred to as a British conservation biologist, but known worldwide with great affection as a naturalist, conservationist, zookeeper, author, … [Read more...] about Recommended Memoirs: Gerald Durrell
Where to Go for Memoir Inspiration? Welcome to My Sister’s Backyard
MY NEW FAVORITE memoir has fabulous blurbs by Elizabeth Gilbert, author of the bestselling Eat, Pray, Love and Anna Thomas, author of the bestselling books The Vegetarian Epicure and Love Soup. It has … [Read more...] about Where to Go for Memoir Inspiration? Welcome to My Sister’s Backyard