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...
June 26, 2015
TAKING ON THE TOPIC of blackout drinking would be brave for anyone, but I would argue that for a woman to do so is...
June 24, 2015
AS A MEMOIR COACH and writing teacher, I am accustomed to a great deal of pushback from writers about re-entering troubled times. “Why should...
June 8, 2015
WHEN A FRIEND PUBLISHES a book, you buy it and read it. It’s a simple rule, and one I am delighted to follow. You...
June 7, 2015
THE BEST MEMOIRS are written without the fear of three things: The rules, books that have come before, or of fitting neatly into a...
