Magical Memoir Moments

Dialogue and Memoir: A Challenge, A Method, and Two Mentors

By Shirley Showalter | October 24, 2011

Like 497, 651 other people, I have “liked” David Sedaris on Facebook. You can too, if you click on his name. You can help his PR people to say he has half a million FB fans. Wow! Recently an interview with Sedaris appeared on his page that reminded me of something I am struggling with…

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Mennonite in a Little Black Dress: An "Old Mennonite" Review

By Shirley Showalter | November 21, 2009

When I read Rhoda Janzen’s Mennonite in a Little Black Dress late at night, the bed posts shook. I had to choke back gargantuan guffaws in order not to wake my Mennonite husband. The last time that happened, I was reading Bill Bryson’s The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid. Before that, David Sedaris, Michael…

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