May 10, 2013
WHILE RECENTLY GIVING A KEYNOTE ADDRESS on the power of memoir, I was introduced to the crowd by a scholar who invited me to...
May 8, 2013
I’VE NEVER LIKED JIMMY CONNORS, considering him among the triumvirate of people who temporarily turned tennis into a game played by bad-tempered men in...
May 7, 2013
A BIG GROUP GROPE. It’s the image that popped into my head after a friend wrote seeking some writing advice. A thoroughly politically incorrect...
April 12, 2013
MEMOIR WRITERS THINK we’ve got it made. That is, until we sit down to write, and all those stories seem to scatter away from...
April 11, 2013
MEMOIR ADAPTATION IS TRICKY, indeed, the assignment being nothing less than inhabiting someone else’s life and getting it right. Sometimes they are spot-on perfect,...
April 9, 2013
IT WOULD BE HARD to estimate the percentage of students who enter my classes wanting to write grief memior. Half, maybe? Seventy-five percent, perhaps?...
April 2, 2013
MY HUSBAND SINGS in a large chorale group, providing me on a regular basis with music of the season. Most recently what filled my...
March 31, 2013
NEW ON MY NIGHTSIDE TABLE are three books I read about in recent editions of The New Yorker. All sounded wonderful in those mini-reviews,...
March 18, 2013
THE VERY BEST WRITING advice I’ve ever received came from one of the very best living American writers. I am a great believer in...
March 9, 2013
LISTENING TO THE RADIO recently, I heard an announcer introduce someone who had written a “memoir,” and I swear the announcer spat out the...
March 8, 2013
IT WAS AN HONOR to be interviewed by Jon Winokur for his fine site, AdvicetoWriters.com. Somehow he got me to admit to my great...
March 1, 2013
THERE’S A NEW CLASS coming up, added because you asked me to. I’m delighted you asked, by the way. I call this class Memoirama,...
