The magic of memoir
Subtitle: inspiration for the writing journey
By: edited by Linda Joy Myers, PhD, and Brooke Warner
Publisher: She Writes Press
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 337
ISBN-13: 9781631521478
Subjects: Autobiography; Interviews; Authors; Authorship; Psychological aspects
Table of contents: title: Introduction :; title: Therein lies the magic --; title: Writing the silence away  -- Jill Kandel; title: My own story  -- Eanlai Cronin; title: The shower and the fish  -- Peter Gibb; title: From the projects to prosperity  -- Lynette Charity; title: Interview with Mary Karr, author of The Liar's Club --; title: I told her to shut up  -- Donna Barnes; title: Of kids and rabbits  -- Roseann M. Bozzone; title: What is it about memoir?  -- Carol E. Anderson; title: Writing naked  -- Bella Mahaya Carter; title: Interview with Elizabeth Gilbert, author of Eat, pray, love --; title: Takeaway : the heart of memoir  -- Linda Joy Myers and Brooke Warner; title: The journey of the two-hundred-thousand-word memoir  -- Krishan Bedi; title: The taste of her milk  -- Sarah Conover; title: Interview with Margo Jefferson, author of Negroland --; title: The empty space  -- Leza Lowitz; title: I'm running circles around you  -- Nadine Kenney Johnstone; title: No more secrets and silence  -- Lynette Benton; title: Interview with Dani Shapiro, author of Devotion --; title: Be brave and say their names  -- Kelly Kittel; title: Dialoguing with the inner critic  -- Robert W. Finertie; title: From fear to freedom  -- Rita M. Gardner; title: Interview with Hope Edelman, author of Motherless daughters, motherless mothers --; title: I still have a story to tell  -- Robert Hammond; title: My twenty-three-year project  -- Marina Aris; title: Where's the justice?  -- LaDonna Harrison; title: Interview with Azar Nafisi, author of Reading Lolita in Tehran --; title: Why I don't find writing memoir cathartic  -- Jill Smolowe; title: The gift of loss  -- Alison Dale; title: The power of words  -- Vanya Erickson; title: Interview with Daisy Hernández, author of A cup of water under my bed --; title: Journey to a memoir  -- Sonvy Sammons; title: It would never happen to us  -- Laurie Prim; title: We are all writers  -- Ashley Espinoza; title: Interview with Mark Matousek, author of The boy he left behind --; title: From China's Red Stone Bridge to San Francisco's Golden Gate Bridge  -- Jing Li; title: I called you a memoir  -- Nancy Chadwick-Burke; title: As if your parents are dead  -- Dhana Musil; title: Interview with Sue William Silverman, author of Love sick --; title: The aftermath of memoir  -- Crystal-Lee Quibell; title: Life inverted  -- Apryl Schwab; title: Writing without an agenda  -- Irene Sardanis; title: Interview with Raquel Cepeda, author of Bird of paradise --; title: The unfolding story  -- Jude Walsh; title: Trust the process and find the thread  -- Fran Simone; title: On becoming a memoirist  -- Rosalyn Kaplus; title: Interview with Jessica Valenti, author of Sex object --; title: Doing it wrong till you get it right (eventually)  -- Rosie Sorenson; title: The mythic journey of memoir  -- Paula Wagner; title: Life into stories  -- Jerry Waxler; title: By the grace of God, I write a memoir -- Ruthie Stender.