memoir
September 15, 2009
- Here's the opening paragraph to
my latest reminiscence about growing up in West Philly in the
1950s:
Until I was three, we lived with my fathers parents at 10th and
Baimbridge. My grandfather had been a doctor in South Philadelphia for more than
three decades. Patients paid him in cash or backyard produce or homemade wine.
He was also, I learned much later, a ...
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September 13, 2009
- The Commitment to Write I will not write about the forthcoming stages of this book's process and it is likely the full story will not be realized for many years, but the following is a short record of the process of beginning. This blog is my commitment.My grandmother wants me to write about her life. Today, she is miles from me, a psyche patient in a small Ohio facility that is monitoring ...
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September 12, 2009
- Kurt Vonnegut looked old. He shuffled by my booth at the antiques show, eyes bleary, a bit of the ancient walrus about him. A walrus in a rumpled London Fog, neither stylish nor especially interesting. I had only rhinestone jewelry to offer. Not walrus fodder at all and he moved on. It was he, all right. And he was it. I began rereading his works that night. ...
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September 10, 2009
- One of the most trusted resources in the craft of non-fiction writing has been William Zinsser’s On Writing Well. Having sold well over a million copies now, the book has recently celebrated its thirtieth anniversary. Which led The American Scholar magazine (Spring 2009) to offer up an essay by Zinsser on the book’s evolution. During my reading of the essay, two thing about Zinsser’s ...
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September 5, 2009
- Reviews in newspapers and magazines are nice, but reviews by real-life readers are the best!Check this one out by a tenth grader in the Westchester, NY area:Dean Kohler’s rock n’ roll memoir is the true story of how even during combat in the Vietnam war, creating music is still possible. Right out of high school, Kohler gets drafted to Nam. With a record deal on hand, …Kohler has a hard ...
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September 1, 2009
- This NY Times article about Julie Myerson’s memoir highlights the issues all memoir writers face: how to tell one’s own story without losing one’s friends and family.The Times also takes a look at Kaylie Jones’s memoir, noting that for Jones, “it’s payback time.” The memoir “exposes her mother’s cruelty, narcissism and heavy drinking, reeling off story after story about her ...
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September 1, 2009
- Seems like it was just two weeks ago that my last book launched – wait, it was! click here! – but today I'm doing the extra-super-happy dance for official publication of Rock 'N' Roll Soldier: A Memoir, my first YA (young adult) title.Co-written with Vietnam veteran Dean Ellis Kohler, R 'N' RS follows Dean from teen guitar prodigy who's just landed his first record deal to Army draftee sent ...
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August 30, 2009
- I punched my pillow, rolled over and sighed. It wasn't yet light out but my mind was acting like it was noon, awake and hungry. It wasn't going to let me get back to sleep no matter how hard I worked at trying to get comfortable in bed.I surrendered and reached for my robe. There were thoughts to capture and release. They'd been playing hide and seek for almost a week. Here one minute, ...
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August 30, 2009
- "A Gift from Brittany," Price's recent memoir, will be presented this fall at several locations in and around the New York City metropolitan area. For more information about the author, visit her Redroom profile or visit the events page. Monday, September 14 RJ Julia Booksellers
768 Boston Post Road
Madison, Connecticut
7:00PM Tuesday, September 15
Cheshire ...
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August 27, 2009
- R. Dwayne Betts – “a good student from a lower-middle-class family” – carjacked a man, went to prison, and has written a book about the experience. Betts was sixteen when he committed the crime, but tried and convicted as an adult; he served eight years in Virginia prisons. He’s been out for four years now and in that time has earned a BA, founded a book club for young men ...
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