Memoir – Book Club Babble

A Good Ending for Bad Memories: Author Interview with Vailes Shepperd

Book Club Questions, Diversity, Equity and Inclusion, Interviews, Memoir, on Books, on Creativity

A Good Ending for Bad Memories is a richly sensual novel about a prosperous African American family before, during, and after slavery. It threads truth, folklore, legend, and fact, in a captivating explorat... Read More...

In Janet Luongo’s new memoir, Rebellion 1967, the author “pulls on memory” to relive the core emotions that motivated her to take so many risks in her young life

Maribel Garcia

Interviews, Memoir

Today Book Club Babble is excited to be talking to Janet Luongo. Janet, thank you so much for joining us today. Let's get started... What inspired you to write your memoir? What is the story behind it?... Read More...

Leora Krygier talks to Book Club Babble about her latest book: Do Not Disclose: A Memoir of Family Secrets Lost and Found

Maribel Garcia

Interviews, Memoir

Hi Leora, welcome to Book Club Babble. If someone were to ask, who is the author behind Do Not Disclose? How would you describe yourself? Like so many other women, I am many things – a daughter, a sister,... Read More...

Die-hard feminist from the Boomer generation, Denise Larson tells us about her latest book, Anarchy in High Heels

Maribel Garcia

Interviews, Memoir

Welcome to Book Club Babble Denise. Let’s start with the story behind what inspired this memoir? I was inspired to write the memoir because I didn’t want the story of Les Nickelettes to be swept into the du... Read More...

Book Club Questions: Educated by Tara Westover

Tabitha Lord

Book Club Questions, Literary Lagniappe, Memoir

Are you in charge of picking out the next read for your book club? Have no fear! We're here to help! I recommend Educated by Tara Westover. Westover was born into a family of preppers in rural Idaho. She had no... Read More...

Daralyse Lyons, author of Yoga Cocaine, on Memoir Writing

Maribel Garcia

Interviews, Literary Lagniappe, Memoir, on Creativity, on Writing

I never expected to make the transition to writing memoir. As a long-time novelist, I was used to fabricating stories – as opposed to recounting them. But then I realized that the most memorable, most “true,”... Read More...

An Interview with Elizabeth Mosier, Author of Excavating Memory: Archaeology and Home (New Rivers Press, 2019).

Maribel Garcia

Interviews, Memoir

Drawing from her seven-year experience as a technician at Philadelphia’s Independence National Historical Park Archaeology Laboratory as well as her own personal experience, Elizab... Read More...

An Interview with Tucker Lieberman about his latest book, Bad Fire: A Memoir of Disruption

Maribel Garcia

Interviews, Memoir, Reviews

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...