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Laurie Hertzel

Contributions Issue 149 Winter/Spring 2016 Friday, January 15, 2016 Craft Essay But Will They Love Me When It ... ’s Done? Writing about Family in Memoir Laurie Hertzel Share Tweet ... "Snapshots," won the Thomas Wolfe Fiction prize. She is the author of three books, including News to Me ...
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But Will They Love Me When It’s Done? Writing about Family in Memoir

Laurie Hertzel
Laurie Hertzel Tuesday, March 8, 2016 Craft Essay When my memoir, News to Me: Adventures of an ... about loved ones—specifically, writing about family—is one of the trickiest aspects of memoir writing ... writing about friends than family, since it is difficult to disguise one’s siblings or parents. Andre ...
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Synchronicity and Structure

Robert Root
radio essays about childhood that I wrote in the 1980s; they inspired the idea for a family memoir that ... writing told me where it had to go, and I was duty bound to make sure it got there. When you reach a point ... to me. Whatever idiosyncratic forces inspire my need to write about certain subjects, most of my ...
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The Multiple Selves Within: Crafting Narrative Personae in Literary Memoir

Michael Steinberg
writing about your youth; that took some courage. If you are around this spring we would love to have you ... it didn’t take any courage at all to write about my youth. In fact, whenever I managed to write ... Malouf   One reason I write literary memoir is to find out things I don’t understand about myself, ...
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Against Getting It All Down

Patrick Madden
writing—not because it’s me, but because they’d see that even for the guy teaching them, it’s not easy work. ... joy of writing for me: getting my mind to do something that it hasn’t done before. I expect that many ... Patrick Madden Wednesday, October 29, 2014 Craft Essay Sometimes I wish my students could see me ...
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Heart Trouble: Three Memoirs and the Necessary Narcissism of Looking Inward at the Body and the Required Grace of Reaching Outward to the World; or, “Why the Fuck Am I Talking about This So Much?”

Jessica Handler
http://www.uiowapress.org/books/2013-spring/mythical-bill.htm Writing and reading memoirs and essays about illness, suffering, and, ultimately, grief are ... a peril: Navel-gazing is part of the job (after all, it’s their navels they’re writing about), but readers ... title essay, she writes about her work as a standardized patient portraying a series of unwell ...
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Who Will Tell My Story?

Mimi Schwartz
so when I tried to write an essay about an anti-Semitic incident at my college. I had not written ... my subject, but this time it was also outward, worrying about how colleagues, not just family, would ... always avoided. Each beginning read smoothly—so it wasn’t about craft—but only the last one felt like the ...
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A Sometimes (But Not Always) Autobiographical I

Michael Steinberg
Essais when he says, “It is about myself I write.” Before everyone’s off to the races on that one, let me ... approach the writing of personal essays or memoirs as literal disclosures about myself or my personal life. ... and play it to the hilt. —-David Shields I would love to be able to write the same kind of narratives ...
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Did It Really Happen That Way? The Memoirist as Unreliable Narrator

Michael Steinberg
nonfiction.   II. It’s a myth that writers write what they know, we write what it is that we need to know. ...  -Marcie Hershman   For me, Mike Steinberg—the person—the impulse for writing a memoir grows out of a sense ... reliable, trustworthy, and honest. Yet when I’m writing a memoir, my narrator, the “I,” invariably becomes ...
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Thirteen Ways of Looking at Deep Reading and Mimicry, With an Ending That Totally Plagiarizes Wallace Stevens

Ira Sukrungruang
satirical piece, “How to Write a Personal Essay,” when he bemoans the state of his sex life after his ... than they have to be.” Students love Panning’s essay, and they begin to interrogate their own lives in ... Ira Sukrungruang Monday, June 2, 2014 Craft Essay “Great poets don’t have time to be ...

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