April 30, 2012
I’M TOO NICE about all this, aren’t I? A great defender of memoir, I neglect to tell you just which books make me want...
April 27, 2012
WANT TO BE HEARD? Of course you do. My advice? Write an op-ed, one of those opposite-the-editorial-pages pieces that you read every day, learn...
April 26, 2012
NEWS YOU CAN USE. Maybe you saw these stories. Maybe you missed them, but these are among the pieces I’ve read recently that might...
April 11, 2012
CREATIVE INSPIRATION CAN COME from anywhere. It’s all around you, though most of us are too busy worrying, planning, texting, phoning or talking to...
April 7, 2012
PASSOVER IS HERE, and we look forward to our yearly Seder, blended as we will be into another family’s gracious celebration. It’s easier these...
April 4, 2012
MY FATHER USED TO SAY that you should write everything like a letter home. In a letter home you rarely tell those people who...
April 2, 2012
NEWS YOU CAN USE. Maybe you saw these stories. Maybe you missed them, but these are among the pieces I’ve read recently that might...
March 25, 2012
I DON’T USUALLY require the students in my memoir class read anything in particular, including my own book on how to write memoir. But...
March 23, 2012
THIS WEEK’S CLASS was the first in a new six-week series. I particularly love these first nights, since it brings the challenge back to...
March 22, 2012
NEWS YOU CAN USE. Maybe you saw these stories. Maybe you missed them, but these are among the pieces I’ve read recently that...
March 21, 2012
“TRUST, BUT VERIFY.” Reading those words, I simply smiled from earring to earring. Such good advice. Such good advice for writers of memoir, whose...
March 16, 2012
I’VE NEVER BEFORE TOLD A PIECE of memoir without notes, or not reading from a manuscript. At least not in public. Of course, I’ve...
