memoir

The Post-it puzzle of a big writing project

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
So you want to write  book? A long journey from newspaper reporter to book author

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
So you want to write a book? The risks and rewards of memoir

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
“I spent my career writing hard news. That's me.”

“I spent my career writing hard news. That’s me.”

—John N. Maclean in an interview about his memoiristic new book "Home Waters"
A writer channels her own life of fear to report about science and psychology

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"
A conversation with Tommy Tomlinson: Getting naked in print and public

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
Adventures in storytelling, from old-school noir to new-school memoir

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,…
"Wild" author Cheryl Strayed: "bad memoirs are narcissistic; good memoirs are about all of us"

“Wild” author Cheryl Strayed: “bad memoirs are narcissistic; good memoirs are about all of us”

Cheryl Strayed has pretty much won the writers’ lottery: Her memoir “Wild” was a boffo bestseller, picked for Oprah’s book club and translated into dozens of languages. It then  became…

Kate Christensen: “It is crucial to avoid grinding axes, settling scores and pointing fingers in your memoir”

The PEN/Faulkner winner talks about the differences in creating characters in memoir vs. fiction, plus finding happiness in Maine

Jessica Stern on Memoir, Denial and Terror

Jessica Stern / Photo by Joel Benjamin Jessica Stern, a Harvard lecturer and fellow at the FXB Center for Health and Human Rights at the Harvard School of Public Health, is known…