Rebecca McClanahan on Writing about Family
Did you have any feeling of debt to anybody? Did you feel any constraints about what you couldWith her memoir The Tribal Knot - A Memoir of Family, Community [...]
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Jul, 2013
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Dec, 2012
My Most Meaningful Read of 2012: Secrets and Spies – The Harbin Files
Of all the books I read this year, the one I have thought most about, talked most about and continue to think about is Mara Moustafine's Secrets and Spies [...]
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May, 2012
Reading: The Hare with Amber Eyes by Edmund de Waal
Edmund de Waals' memoir The Hare with Amber Eyes was my favorite memoir of 2011. I am still trying to figure out why because it defies so many of the [...]
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Jul, 2011
Reading: Lingering in Terry Tempest Williams’ Refuge
I love it when a book becomes a place, an alternate reality I can dwell in. That’s what happened as I was reading Terry Tempest Williams’ now classic memoir [...]