Magical Memoir Moments

100Memoirs.com Reaches 100 Posts: A Mini-Memoir

By Shirley Showalter | June 6, 2009

Time for a little history report. My first blog post ever was written for the Fetzer Institute Campaign for Love and Forgiveness website. The subject was the week-long volunteer opportunity I was given to help with Katrina recovery in New Orleans. March 24-April, 3 blog posts appeared, and USA Today published my op-ed article about…

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This American Life: What Has Kept You Together?

By Shirley Showalter | February 21, 2009

If the 21st century is the memoir century, then the job of this blog is to catalogue, comment, and critique.  In the next weeks, you can expect to see more posts about the uses of memoir in the media world, whether that world is “mainstream,” “social media,” book publishing, online publishing, radio, television, film or…

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