Magical Memoir Moments
Smell: The Memoir Writer's Stimulus Package
“What smells trigger memory for you?” My niece Joyous Derner asked the above question on her Facebook page a few days ago. She got lots of responses, which led me to remember a wonderful book: Diane Ackerman’s A Natural History of the Senses. I read this book soon after it was published in 1990, and…
Presidential Memoirs, College Essays, Tony Blair Memoir: Memoir in the News
Memoir is in the news! Do you know how many copies of Barack Obama’s memoirs have sold? Which was more popular, Jimmy Carter’s memoir or Bill Clinton’s? Check out the answers to these and other presidential memoir questions here. An occasional writer for The New York Times, Caren Osten Gerszberg, describes the college essay, something…
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