Memoir – Book Club Babble

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

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

Fiction and History Conspire to Inspire!

“Herstory” with Nancy Rubin Stuart

Women’s History Month Feature with Linda Cardillo

Judith Cromwell Discusses Women’s History and Good Queen Anne

Women’s History Month Feature with Author Marc Graham

An Interview with Kim Hooper, Author of Cherry Blossoms

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

E A Aymar’s latest thriller probes the depths of the human psyche

An Interview with Kim Hooper, Author of Cherry Blossoms

An Interview with the author Sarahlyn Bruck

Harriet Levin’s My Oceanography reviewed by L. Shapley Bassen

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Interview with Zach Anner, Author of If at Birth You Don’t Succeed: My Adventures with Disaster and Destiny

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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

E A Aymar’s latest thriller probes the depths of the human psyche

Fiction and History Conspire to Inspire!

“Herstory” with Nancy Rubin Stuart

Women’s History Month Feature with Linda Cardillo

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