At 15, Judith A. Fisher began stealing her mother’s painkillers. One night, feeling particularly unloved by her parents, she leaves a note and swallows the pills, waking up later in the hospital
…The Lost Landscape has taught me that even literary titans are human beings underneath the hype, and they themselves can get lost when venturing into an unfamiliar genre.
Switching POV is criticized in creative nonfiction even more than it is in fiction.. But it’s absolutely possible.
When his English teacher assigned a book report on the Dickens’ novel, he asked if he could produce a movie instead.
Janet Sternburg’s White Matter (Hawthorne Books and Literary Arts, 2014) is a memoir of a family torn apart and brought together when two of its six children were given lobotomies.
Putnam’s memoir is an extended account of her parents’ and uncle’s final years together after her father suffers a debilitating stroke.
…in “Sleepwalker,” Frazier rips the sad-clown’s mask off of the subject of sleepwalking … she shows us the trauma, which, for Frazier, has been intergenerational.
… there’s good reason to fall in love with writing as an evolutionary process … No matter how skilled you are or how creative your imagination may be, your first draft should be your worst draft
“They want writers to come,” said a friend about the ghosts that were rumored to haunt The Weymouth Center for the Arts and Humanities in Southern Pines.
Inspiration, lifestyle, escape. Manhattan means all those things and more to author Kate Walter whose debut memoir, Looking for a Kiss, relays her journey about the breakup of her long-time relationship.
