Memoir Posts
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How Does a Woman Become a Writer?
"The writers who interest me most, always, are women who write about themselves in ways that a male writer never could."
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Poetry Feels Like Memory to Me
"Something of the intensity of feeling, sparseness of narrative and intricacy of images in poetry feels like memory itself to me."
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No Longer a Footnote: Extraordinary Lives
History is too often told through the texture of men’s lives. In recent years, the rise of women’s biography and memoir has sought to rectify that, …
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Persian-Canadian Writers You've Got to Read
So, where were all the Persian Canadian writers? It turns out, here all along, but not as represented as one might hope; as they deserve to be.
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12 Books for International Women's Day
Can you hear them now? If you can't, you're not listening. Recent memoirs and biographies about remarkable women would make great picks for International …
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Dazzling Memoirs
Marjorie Simmins, author of MEMOIR: CONVERSATIONS AND CRAFT, recommends her dream lineup of memoirs.
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HGD - Biography + Memoir
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A Taster: Spring 2021 Nonfiction Preview
Life stories, family, baseball, and retreat. These highlight the nonfiction we're most looking forward to this spring.
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Editors' Picks: Week of Nov 23, 2020
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25 Reasons to be Hopeful
The following books are infused with hope—that what we do and who we are really matters, that second chances are possible, and so too is a better world. …