Author, Editor of Memoir & Narrative Nonfiction
Wish I’d had a photo of me plunging through high water in Piazza San Marco the other day. I’d share it here, but it will have to live in memory. The crowds were queuing for the wooden walkways, but I had on knee waders. It’s only water . . . So off I went across the Piazetta. In the center it was almost to the top of the boots. I slowed down, pushing through the sea water rather than splashing, made it to higher ground, and stepped out at the Doge’s Palace. Happy life!
If you’re writing a memoir this year, you will—at some point—confront the question of whether your story should read like a novel. The answer to that question is as individual as your writing style and the story you have to tell. Maybe you naturally share […]
Sometimes the story we begin writing outgrows the boundaries of memoir and branches away from the task of reconstructing real people and lived events and leaps imaginatively into invention—first, invention of little this’s and that’s, and then (oops!) into the invention of bigger this’s and […]
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What I learned when the last of my family died . . .