Memoir – Book Club Babble

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

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...

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...

Unearthing The Lion Trees' Roots, an interview with Owen Thomas

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

Garcia’s PROFOUND AND PERFECT THINGS, A Timelessly Modern Intersectionality Novel

A Mother’s Day Chat with Janet Benton, Author of Lilli de Jong

How One Mother Defeated the Odds and Built a Baby Blanket Empire

The Shaman of Turtle Valley: An Interview with Clifford Garstang

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

Unearthing The Lion Trees' Roots, an interview with Owen Thomas

Paula McLain’s Circling the Sun Showcases Intrepid Female Adventurer in 1920s Kenya

What to Read if You’re Mourning the end of JANE THE VIRGIN – by Spark Press

Carl Vonderau’s Murderabilia: An edge-of-your-seat thriller that explores the psychology of serial killers

Garcia’s PROFOUND AND PERFECT THINGS, A Timelessly Modern Intersectionality Novel

A Mother’s Day Chat with Janet Benton, Author of Lilli de Jong

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

Lauren Oliver's YA hit, Before I Fall, Hits the Silver Screen. Is it Worth Watching?

Up for a Russia Spy Thriller Not on the Nightly News? Try Red Sparrow

Does the movie version of The Glass Castle hold up?

Is Everything, Everything Worth Watching?

Looking for an Adult Adventure Movie? Try The Lost City of Z

Fences: From Playwright to Screenplay

Who Will Win on Oscars Night? Hidden Figures Gets Our Vote

Why Read? My Top Eight Reasons

What to Read if You’re Mourning the end of JANE THE VIRGIN – by Spark Press

When the Person is the Message by Tucker Lieberman

Ebook-only Publishing Platform for Short Books: An Interview with Industry Game-Changer Brooke Warner

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

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

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

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

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

Family Myths and the Memoir Writer by Susan G. Weidener

Paula McLain’s Circling the Sun Showcases Intrepid Female Adventurer in 1920s Kenya

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

What to Read if You’re Mourning the end of JANE THE VIRGIN – by Spark Press

Carl Vonderau’s Murderabilia: An edge-of-your-seat thriller that explores the psychology of serial killers

Looking At What is to be Seen: A Review of Dana Spiotta’s Innocents and Others

Two Families, One Secret: An Interview With Lynda Cohen Loigman

Unearthing The Lion Trees’ Roots, an interview with Owen Thomas

Come Aboard the Starship Horizon: An Interview with Tabitha Lord