When I was a public-school student in Washington, D.C. the school library was a sacred space. Throughout my years in elementary, junior high, and high school, the school library was where I went to find myself in someone else’s story.…
Writing a memoir forces you to take ownership of the story of your life. Ownership means claiming your life and all its false starts and final reckonings. There are no half measures, no second-guessing in a memorable memoir. This is…
How to Write A Memoir Part One I launched my career with a memoir, Migrations of the Heart, published when I was 33 years old. Carol Mann a Manhattan literary agent had read a draft of my first attempt at…
I have been writing and teaching writing for a long time. The one thing I know about becoming a successful writer is that it takes more, much more than putting words on paper. Much of the most powerful writing is…
Fiction Behold The Dreamers by Imbolo Mbue Balm by Dolen Perkins Valdez Nonfiction Born to Run by Bruce Springsteen Corporation: The Pathological Pursuit of Power by Joel Bakan What I read and teach again and again Ball Over But the…
