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  • Bring on the Diamonds and Rust

    April 1, 2009

    • I had a profound revelation about Blue Jeans.I was writing about my first loves, a boy and a horse which got me thinking about goodbyes. I can’t do them in real life. Instead, I unconsciously collected them and they became a single character, named Blue Jeans. He possesses all the traits, quirks, and even looks of everyone I never said goodbye to. I guess that’s why I cried writing the ...
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  • Back to my Country Roots

    March 11, 2009

    • Okay. I'm through with ranting. Ready to fully enjoy spring in the country. There's nothing like blooming fruit trees and daffodils to put me in a better mood. I know this is heresy, but I don't envy New Yorkers their cold weather and snow and ice (but Christmas in New York City is hard to beat), especially when we have great warm days in February and March, with the flowering quince in bloom and ...
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  • Memoirs under Fire

    November 15, 2008

    • The dialogue over memoir continues. In an article in the Wall Street Journal entitled “The Trouble with Memoirs,” (11/1/08), Nicholas Dawidoff declares memoir, “A pack of lies set down by a desperate humdrum character trying to cash in on the craze for misery.”Dawidoff, I should point out, is a two-time memoirist himself who wrote a biographical memoir of his grandfather called The Fly ...
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  • Beth Lisick, Alan Black and David Henry Sterry Rock the Bay Area in October

    September 29, 2008

    • THE SELF-HELP, SCOTTISH BALLS & MURDER TOUR An All-Star Who's Who of memoirists will be rocking the Bay Area in October. Ex-track star best-selling fashion icon Beth Lisick, ex-pat Glaswegian literati kingpin Alan Black, and ex-industrial sex technician Disney screenwriter David Henry Sterry star in Art of the Memoir: Telling and Selling Your Life Stories. There will be performances ...
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