Memoir – Book Club Babble

Imagine being thirteen years old, and being called up at your Bat Mitzvah, summoned to recite the blessings before and after the Torah reading. For many Jewish teenagers, this coming of age ritual ceremony mark... Read More...

Is the Key to Being Resilient, Keeping Hope Realistic? An Interview with Memoirist, Rebecca Faye Smith Galli

Maribel Garcia

Book Club Questions, Interviews, Memoir, on Writing, Reviews

In this memoir, we meet Becky Galli. We are first introduced to the author's life while she is safely ensconced in a pretty idyllic 1960s southern upbringing-complete with the pastor father and a stay-at-ho... Read More...

Trepidation, Dread and Discovery of Memoir By Susan G. Weidener

Susan Weidener

Memoir, on Creativity, on Writing

As I listen to writers in a memoir workshop I’m leading about writing difficult subjects; I think how we share this in common. We’re on a journey of self-exploration … survivors who seek transformation and will... Read More...

Is Memoir Vanity or An Act of Love? By Susan G. Weidener

Susan Weidener

Memoir, on Creativity, on Writing

Not everyone understands why some write their memoirs. They dismiss it as narcissistic vanity. Why write something so personal they ask? Who cares? Stories are my passion, so I am biased that writing memoir,... Read More...

Family Myths and the Memoir Writer by Susan G. Weidener

Susan Weidener

Memoir, on Writing

The memoir writer has the unenviable task of breaking through the family myths to get to the heart of her story and the people who populate it. Too often we bow “to the legend,” as Virginia Woolf writes in her ... Read More...

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