The magic of memoir : inspiration for the writing journey /
Linda Joy Myers; Brooke Warner
- Berkeley, CA : She Writes Press, 2016.
- xiii, 337 pages ; 22 cm.
Introduction : Therein lies the magic -- Writing the silence away / Jill Kandel -- My own story / Eanlai Cronin -- The shower and the fish / Peter Gibb -- From the projects to prosperity / Lynette Charity -- Interview with Mary Karr, author of The Liar's Club -- I told her to shut up / Donna Barnes -- Of kids and rabbits / Roseann M. Bozzone -- What is it about memoir? / Carol E. Anderson -- Writing naked / Bella Mahaya Carter -- Interview with Elizabeth Gilbert, author of Eat, pray, love -- Takeaway : the heart of memoir / Linda Joy Myers and Brooke Warner -- The journey of the two-hundred-thousand-word memoir / Krishan Bedi -- The taste of her milk / Sarah Conover -- Interview with Margo Jefferson, author of Negroland -- The empty space / Leza Lowitz -- I'm running circles around you / Nadine Kenney Johnstone -- No more secrets and silence / Lynette Benton -- Interview with Dani Shapiro, author of Devotion -- Be brave and say their names / Kelly Kittel -- Dialoguing with the inner critic / Robert W. Finertie -- From fear to freedom / Rita M. Gardner -- Interview with Hope Edelman, author of Motherless daughters, motherless mothers -- I still have a story to tell / Robert Hammond -- My twenty-three-year project / Marina Aris -- Where's the justice? / LaDonna Harrison -- Interview with Azar Nafisi, author of Reading Lolita in Tehran -- Why I don't find writing memoir cathartic / Jill Smolowe -- The gift of loss / Alison Dale -- The power of words / Vanya Erickson -- Interview with Daisy Hernǹdez, author of A cup of water under my bed -- Journey to a memoir / Sonvy Sammons -- It would never happen to us / Laurie Prim -- We are all writers / Ashley Espinoza -- Interview with Mark Matousek, author of The boy he left behind -- From China's Red Stone Bridge to San Francisco's Golden Gate Bridge / Jing Li -- I called you a memoir / Nancy Chadwick-Burke -- As if your parents are dead / Dhana Musil -- Interview with Sue William Silverman, author of Love sick -- The aftermath of memoir / Crystal-Lee Quibell -- Life inverted / Apryl Schwab -- Writing without an agenda / Irene Sardanis -- Interview with Raquel Cepeda, author of Bird of paradise -- The unfolding story / Jude Walsh -- Trust the process and find the thread / Fran Simone -- On becoming a memoirist / Rosalyn Kaplus -- Interview with Jessica Valenti, author of Sex object -- Doing it wrong till you get it right (eventually) / Rosie Sorenson -- The mythic journey of memoir / Paula Wagner -- Life into stories / Jerry Waxler -- By the grace of God, I write a memoir / Ruthie Stender.
The Magic of Memoir is a memoirist?s companion for when the going gets tough. Editors Linda Joy Myers and Brooke Warner have taught and coached hundreds of memoirists to the completion of their memoirs, and they know that the journey is fraught with belittling messages from both the inner critic and naysayers, voices that make it hard to stay on course with the writing and completion of a book.