Memoirs on Overpowering Topics
At the Self-Publishing Book Expo I attended recently in New York, I met three women whose memoirs successfully tackle these potentially overpowering topics: leaving your country of origin; growing up...
View ArticleThe Iconic Photo
I once found a photo tucked inside a book at an estate sale. The photo showed a Model T in ruins, destroyed by what looked like a head-on collision. The photo jumped out at me. I took it the man,...
View ArticleVisiting A Place That No Longer Exists
When you write a memoir about fishing, writes William Zinsser in Writing About Your Life, your subject is “the transaction between yourself and fishing—as a sport, as a pastime, as therapy, as a buddy...
View ArticleMemoirs By Doctors
Abraham Verghese recommended in yesterday’s Five Best in The Wall Street Journal five of his favorite books by physicians, including two memoirs. Adventures in Two Worlds is A. J. Cronin’s memoir...
View ArticleYour Stuff, Your Memoir?
I used to think memoir consists of three things: (1) writing, (2) in the first person, (3) about a thin slice of a person’s life. “The reader doesn’t want the whole iceberg, just the tip,” to...
View ArticleEven A Bridge Can Be A Memoir
Can a bridge be a memoir? Heck, yes! Add bridges to the list, along with all your other stuff from my last blog. Nj.com and the "New Jersey" section of The Star Ledger reported this week that Paul...
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