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The Prompt-O-Matic: #51
A little something to get you writing.
Something to Believe In
Lavinia Spalding finds meaning in a cardinal's insistent knocking.
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Lavinia Spalding
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The Memoir Land Author Questionnaire #73: Lidia Yuknavitch
"Fear is the story we were fed to stop us. Make fear the portal—you have kindred souls on both sides."
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Sari Botton
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Some Great New Personal Essays to Read this Week...
Plus: Narratively Academy's prompts, a retreat with Amy Shearn and Diana Friedman, our partnership with Literary Liberation, Writing Co-Lab's 100 Days…
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Memoir Land
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The Memoir Land Author Questionnaire #72: Brooke Berman
"The memoir was easy. I feel awful saying that. But it was! It poured out of me."
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Sari Botton
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The Prompt-O-Matic: #50
A little something to get you writing.
Eleven True Things
Ada Limón looks back on her time in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. An excerpt of Goodbye to All That: Writers on Loving & Leaving NY.
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Ada
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The Memoir Land Author Questionnaire #71: Nancy Reddy
"It’s my hope that the book can provide comfort and companionship to new parents struggling, as I did, under the weight of our impossible and…
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Sari Botton
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What Have Been Your Favorite Personal Essays Lately—Or Ever?
A crowd-sourced edition of "Memoir Monday."
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Memoir Land
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The Memoir Land Author Questionnaire #70: Amy Wilson
"Don’t be discouraged that the idea that is calling you won’t be 'hot' enough, and don’t chase what’s hot right now if it’s not the sort of thing you’re…
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Sari Botton
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The Prompt-O-Matic: #49
A little something to get you writing.
Who Gave This to Me?
Confessions of an unpaid whore.
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Ramona Jan
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