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The Theme-focused Memoir

Denis Ledoux — Tue, 03 May 2022 14:43:52 +0000

While many of the people whom I have helped to write a memoir have come ostensibly to write about their lives – to celebrate some achievement, I would say that many of these people are also writing a mission-driven memoir, a theme-focused memoir. Behind the desire to tell about their lives, there is some intent […]

How to Write Different Parts of Myself in My Memoir or, A Vignette on Diversity—Inner Diversity

Susan Lebel Young — Thu, 16 Jul 2020 11:00:00 +0000

When I sent a call out for vignettes on diversity, I had not thought of intra-psychic diversity but here came a piece from Sue Lebel Young based on this very modality! Sue is a long time subscriber to this e-newsletter. Here is her post answering “how to write different parts of myself in my memoir.” […]

Do You Have a Foodoir in You?

Chris Lightfoot — Tue, 23 Oct 2018 10:00:33 +0000

The continuing popularity of books about food and cookery is well demonstrated by the vast range available—just look along the cookery and food shelves in any bookshop or at the long lists available online. Many are collections of recipes by well-known chefs and bakers, but there is also another genre which combines memoir writing with […]

Kate Christensen talks about writing Blue Plate Special / An Autobiography of My Appetites and about writing in general.

Denis Ledoux — Fri, 18 Apr 2014 19:47:15 +0000

In her memoir, novelist Kate Christensen, author of The Great Man and the The Astral Hotel, has undertaken to organize her lifestory around food. It is an interesting concept, a theme, around which to make sense of a lifetime. If the memoir is, as Rainer Maria Rilke said of poetry, a momentary order, then Kate […]