Memoir Posts
The Elephant on the Page: Guest Post by Fran Kimmel
In which a writing teacher learns that it's all about the story.
Jael Ealey Richardson: My Father’s Game-Changing Advice
How a record-setting quarterback’s strategy helped me write nonfiction.
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Books I'd Like to Drink With
Christopher Heard on the magic of luxury hotels and the stories told behind closed doors.
Christopher Heard is no stranger to film buffs. Now he's telling all about his life inside luxury hotels.
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Christopher Heard, author of The Suite Life (Dundurn Press).
Gerry Fostaty on reliving a youthful trauma in his memoir As You Were: The Tragedy at Valcartier
Julie Wilson: The tragedy of which you speak in your book, As You Were: The Tragedy at Valcartier occurred in 1974 on a Canadian Forces Base in Valcartier, …
Robert J. Wiersema on the Springsteen songs that don't appear in his mixtape-memoir Walk Like a Man.
Rob Wiersema shares the B Sides mixtape to Walk Like a Man.
In Conversation With: Brian Busby on John Glassco and the Pleasures of Reviving Forgotten Literary Traditions
In conversation with Brian Busby, author of the literary memoir A Gentleman of Pleasure, which details the life and artistry of poet and pornographer …
We think we know them, but we have no idea
Andrew Westoll and Sarah Leavitt shatter illusions about the nonfiction writer’s adherence to truth above all.