AS A MEMOIR COACH, I work with clients all over the world, teasing out their stories, reading whole manuscripts, restructuring works, performing content edits, serving as a writing coach, cajoling … [Read more...] about What is “Essayistic Memoir” and Who Gets To Write it?
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My View: This Week’s Best Memoir News 8/22/16
THERE IS LOTS OF MEMOIR NEWS this week and, at least according to me, all of it is good. The New York Times has announced a new weekly column in the form of an essay on a topic that is long overdue … [Read more...] about My View: This Week’s Best Memoir News 8/22/16
Five Reasons For Writers to Read Book Reviews
"WHY SHOULD I READ BOOK REVIEWS?" A client asked me this recently. Let me count the reasons why writers should read book reviews, for there are many, starting with the simplest and most direct of them … [Read more...] about Five Reasons For Writers to Read Book Reviews
My View: This Week’s Best Memoir News 8/15/16
LIKE MANY OTHER PEOPLE I KNOW, I have spent much of this summer reading the 1,600 plus pages of Elena Ferrante’s four Neopolitan novels. And like all of those people, I have simultaneously watched the … [Read more...] about My View: This Week’s Best Memoir News 8/15/16
Join Me at Tribe Conference
IT FEELS LIKE THE PERFECT online dating experience: You meet over the internet, get along great and then spend a lot of time getting along even better only to then agree to meet in person. Now … [Read more...] about Join Me at Tribe Conference
My View: The Week’s Best Memoir News 6/17/16
The view from here is that a stint in the United States Senate has too much in common with a barroom brawl: Irrational, brutal and frequently serving no one, it can seem without merit. But then comes … [Read more...] about My View: The Week’s Best Memoir News 6/17/16