March 6, 2016
WE’VE ALL FACED THIS DILEMMA: Who to trust with our writing future? Should we go into an MFA program – residential or distance-based? –...
February 10, 2016
IT WAS A DREAM COME TRUE: Me and a room full of psychoanalysts, more than one hundred of them, in fact, and I was...
January 21, 2016
SAM LANSKY IS THE DEPUTY CULTURE EDITOR at Time, a beautiful writer, and an addict. It turns out that it’s a winning combination, at...
January 19, 2016
HOW TO PREPARE to write memoir? A client asked me this and I found myself about to give an offhand retort – “Tie yourself...
January 12, 2016
WHILE MASS INCARCERATION of African Americans is one of the biggest tragedies of contemporary America, it is actually nothing new. Evidence of its effects...
January 7, 2016
THERE MAY BE no greater honor than having another writer benefit from something I’ve written. But though I am always glad to hear from...
November 30, 2015
NEW MEMOIR ABOUNDS, and some of it sounds so damn good that I actually cleaned my office to make room for the incoming pile....
October 8, 2015
WHILE GOOD FRIENDSHIP IS NOURISHING, sometimes it is also delicious. Such is the case with my bond with David Leite, whose humor and grace...
September 28, 2015
MARY KARR’S NEW BOOK, The Art of Memoir, came in the mail from her publisher with a lovely letter asking me to read it....
July 20, 2015
WHEN I HEARD that Mardi Jo Link had another memoir out I was overjoyed. After all, her most recent book, Bootstrapper, From Broke to...
July 16, 2015
THERE IS SO MUCH NEW MEMOIR, and so much of it is good, that I cannot stop myself from grinning from earring to earring....
July 6, 2015
FEW, IF ANY, THINGS MAKE ME HAPPIER than a successful memoir written by someone I like and admire. Perhaps the only thing that comes...
