August 25, 2016
SHE WAS ONE OF THOSE PEOPLE in high school who said things like, “Well, I’m sure someone will dance with you if you wear...
August 24, 2016
AS A MEMOIR COACH, I work with clients all over the world, teasing out their stories, reading whole manuscripts, restructuring works, performing content edits,...
August 22, 2016
THERE IS LOTS OF MEMOIR NEWS this week and, at least according to me, all of it is good. The New York Times has...
August 17, 2016
“WHY SHOULD I READ BOOK REVIEWS?” A client asked me this recently. Let me count the reasons why writers should read book reviews, for...
August 15, 2016
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....
August 10, 2016
IT FEELS LIKE THE PERFECT online dating experience: You meet over the internet, get along great and then spend a lot of time getting...
June 17, 2016
The view from here is that a stint in the United States Senate has too much in common with a barroom brawl: Irrational, brutal...
June 15, 2016
WRITING ADVICE IS SERIOUS BUSINESS. I know, I am a memoir coach, and I treat each of the problems of my clients as if...
June 10, 2016
The way The New York Review of Books sees it, some are born to be warriors, or so it is written in a recent...
May 27, 2016
MY VIEW OF THE WORLD is always seen through the lens of whether or not something would make good copy. After all, so much...
May 7, 2016
AS MAY ROLLS ALONG, many of you are planning to ship out for summer and choosing what to pack for that beach bag of...
April 22, 2016
DO YOU SEE WHAT I SEE? I mean, have you noticed the growing popularity of writing about the makings of memoir, its nuts and...
