memoir The Nieman Storyboard guide to books on storytelling Journalists, authors, producers, filmmakers, and Nieman Storyboard readers share more than 40 books that inspire their work. April 17, 2025 Mallary Tenore Tarpley Minda Honey’s lessons from writing a memoir, and advice for journalists finding their voice The author of "The Heartbreak Years" embraced being "shameless" in telling her own story. February 28, 2025 Mark Armstrong The craft of memoir: queer joy, turtles, and caring for the reader in Edgar Gomez’s ‘Alligator Tears’ "You can take the reader out of that present moment and plop them somewhere else, and it can be meaningful, it can be strategic." February 27, 2025 Minda Honey The Post-it puzzle of a big writing project Author and journalism teacher Mallary Tenore Tarpley uses Post-its and origami paper to outline her reported memoir on eating disorders November 9, 2023 Mallary Tenore Tarpley So you want to write book? A long journey from newspaper reporter to book author In "The Diary of a Misfit," Casey Parks' had to let go of some journalistic boundaries to write about being queer in the religious, rural South September 6, 2022 Lisa Grace Lednicer So you want to write a book? The risks and rewards of memoir A learning-teaching journalist shares lessons learned as she revisited the realities of her mother's death and her own eating disorder July 6, 2022 Mallary Tenore Tarpley “I spent my career writing hard news. That’s me.” —John N. Maclean in an interview about his memoiristic new book "Home Waters" June 8, 2021 Jacqui Banaszynski A writer channels her own life of fear to report about science and psychology Award-winning freelancer and outdoorswoman Eva Holland weaves memoir and research in her debut book "Nerve" March 31, 2020 Kim Cross A conversation with Tommy Tomlinson: Getting naked in print and public A writer who tells intimate stories of others turns his notebook on himself in a searing memoir that undresses his own and America's obesity October 9, 2018 Chip Scanlan Adventures in storytelling, from old-school noir to new-school memoir Just in time for the weekend, here’s a little list of some of the things I’ve been listening to and reading this week, some of it online — Storyboard included,… November 18, 2016 Kari Howard 1 2 Next