April 15, 2016
The View from here is that fans of our favorite genre have every reason to believe that we have some good reading ahead. Have...
April 8, 2016
This week in memoir brought us the good, the bad, and some ugly news about our favorite genre. I don’t know about you, but...
April 6, 2016
I ALWAYS THINK I’ve heard it all when it comes to writing productivity and tricking yourself, bargaining oneself, bribing oneself into it. And then...
April 1, 2016
I LEARN AS I READ as much as I learn as I write. Here is memoir news that taught me a thing or two...
March 25, 2016
Looking Out Over This Week’s Memoir News (The fourth week of March, 2016) IN MY VIEW, this week’s best memoir writing is a sublime...
March 22, 2016
WRITING ABOUT THE DEAD presents memoirists with a special set of problems, as well as remarkable freedom, and each writer will wrestle and debate...
March 17, 2016
Looking Out Over This Week’s Memoir News (The third week of March, 2016) There is a lot of be happy about this week in...
March 15, 2016
THE ESPRESSO MACHINE IS CLEAN. This is never a good sign. In my house, a much better sign that things are as they should...
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...
