September 9, 2013
Having always wanted to feature a graphic memoir here on Writing Lessons, I knew I had the right writer when I read a review...
September 3, 2013
JOANNA PENN IS A TIRELESS ADVOCATE for writers. I like to think that I am, as well. Together we recently settled in for a...
September 3, 2013
OUR NEXT WRITER will take on the slippery topic of bridging the gap from the here to the then – that distance of writing...
August 27, 2013
HOW TO MAKE the personal public? Good question, isn’t it? How to write a personal story is enough of a question, of course, but...
August 23, 2013
JOANNA PENN HELPS writers get to their work. Me, too. And so we got together via Skype the other day – she in London,...
August 20, 2013
AH, THE ADVENTURE MEMOIR. Of its writers, few have as distinctive a brand as J. Maarten Troost, whose debut book, The Sex Lives of...
August 13, 2013
I PURCHASED THE fine new memoir, She Left Me the Gun, immediately after reading The New York Times’ review of the book that read,...
August 6, 2013
TELLING THE TRUTH — how to do it, why it’s important, and how to avoid the temptation to stray from it – is perhaps...
July 30, 2013
ONE OF THE BLURBS on the back of Mardi Jo Link’s new book, Bootstrapper, reads “A heroic-comic saga of single motherhood, pure stubbornness, and...
July 26, 2013
A HUGE RED LIPSTICK kiss goes out to Poets & Writers magazine’s online site for placing The Memoir Project, my idiosyncratic, irreverent little book...
July 23, 2013
Next in this new series called Writing Lessons, our teacher is Liz Picco, taking on the gnarly topic of when to start writing memoir....
July 21, 2013
CHANCES ARE FAIRLY good that you’ve heard of the new Netflix breakout series called Orange is the New Black. And if you haven’t, well,...
