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The Memoir Land Author Questionnaire 236: Laurie Notaro
"I have had to tell people before that if they don’t want to be in a book, stop doing stupid things in front of me. They don’t listen."
 • Sari Botton
The Memoir Land Author Questionnaire 235: Emerson Whitney
"The book takes the form of a letter to my mom. I write to her hoping to understand our relationship to ableism and how internalized ableism impacted…
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The Memoir Land Author Questionnaire 234: Kristen McCallum
"I love that there’s basically nothing writing won’t let me touch. I can build entire worlds and just disappear into them for a while...It’s one of the…
 • Sari Botton
The Memoir Land Author Questionnaire 233: Ed Park
"I wrote ‘Three Tenses’ in 1998, then lost it for 22 years. It’s a time capsule."
 • Sari Botton
The Memoir Land Author Questionnaire 232: Rachael Maddux
"In ‘Life Expectancy,’ I write about how I can’t remember when I first learned about death—the idea of it seems to have just always been in my head. The…
 • Sari Botton
The Memoir Land Author Questionnaire 231: Danny Ramadan
"The hardest part, I believe, in writing this book was finding a way to tell these more traumatic experiences while demanding respect and joy instead of…
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The Memoir Land Author Questionnaire 230: Julia Cohen
"The secrets that feel impossible to say aloud are often the most important ones to share. "
 • Sari Botton
The Memoir Land Author Questionnaire 229: Eliot Glazer
"The book is a collection of funny essays, so I guess that would technically be a memoir? But 'memoir' sounds really heavy in relation to a book with a…
 • Sari Botton
The Memoir Land Author Questionnaire 228: Rebecca Wright Stevens
"I've written for 63 years while raising children and practicing law...Two pages a week may not sound like much, but over 63 years it added up to 6 file…
 • Sari Botton
The Memoir Land Author Questionnaire 227: Darcey Steinke
"Pain points to something very deep within us, and connects us to humanity as a whole. "
 • Sari Botton
The Memoir Land Author Questionnaire 226: Elizabeth Jannuzzi
"I had a few false starts but it wasn't until I was 43 years old and four years sober that I began writing in a memoir class. It was several years after…
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The Memoir Land Author Questionnaire 225: Madhushree Ghosh
"This memoir addresses the question of belonging, of fitting in, and fitting out, while reminding us of the complicated history of this country that…
 • Sari Botton
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