Magical Memoir Moments

A Twitter Post-Script: How Online Can Lead to Offline Memoir Connections

By Shirley Showalter | May 16, 2012

Just have to share a lovely experience because it continues the conversation about social media and “real” writing that began with this post about social media and continued when Kathy Pooler did a guest post about Twitter here last week. As I write my own memoir, I am learning to know many authors who have…

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How to Write a Memoir

By Shirley Showalter | February 20, 2012

So you want to explore the fog of memory and write a memoir. Great! Like the IRS, I’m here to help. And so are many others. In fact, I am going to send you to them. Here is an eight-page booklet (.pdf) I wrote on the subject. What I say below will not duplicate the…

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High Crimes Against the Memoir Form?!

By Shirley Showalter | November 13, 2010

Ryan Grim’s searing essay in The Huffington Post about George W. Bush’s new memoir deserves our attention. Grim claims that many of the passages of Bush’s Decision Points are taken word-for-word from accounts of other writers. Read his review here. In it Grim describes high crimes and misdemeanors in the Bush memoir. He found lots…

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