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The Memoir Land Author Questionnaire

The Memoir Land Author Questionnaire #120: Andrea J. Buchanan
"Part of what I learned about how to write the book was to be curious about its challenges, and, rather than fight them, use them as part of the writing…
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The Memoir Land Author Questionnaire #119: Christine Kalafus
"My husband has read the entire thing—we are still married—but requested no changes. Which is good because I wouldn’t have made them."
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The Memoir Land Author Questionnaire #118: Lisa Smith
"When I got home from detox, sober, I started waking up at 5am and waiting for my recovery meeting to start at 7:30 before I went to work, so I had…
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The Memoir Land Author Questionnaire #117: Maris Kreizman
"I wanted to write about my own political awakening from a personal perspective, and hope that readers will identify with it."
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The Memoir Land Author Questionnaire #116: Samina Ali
"It was important to me to capture as best I could how it feels to have brain damage: the disorientation and frustration and fear and anger and even…
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The Memoir Land Author Questionnaire #115: Erika J. Simpson
"I realized the most important part in the creation of this book was staying true to my own inner story. So I stopped digging in parts that didn’t need…
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The Memoir Land Author Questionnaire #114: Cara Gormally
"This is not just my story—it is the story of many people who’ve survived sexual assault. It is also the story of many queer people and the abandonment…
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The Memoir Land Author Questionnaire #113: Jen Calleja
"The fear to write about these experiences came from taboo and shame regarding mental illness, poverty and trauma, which makes it even more important to…
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The Memoir Land Author Questionnaire #112: Candace Opper
"Be relentless. Be okay with the fact that not everyone will like what you’re doing. Embrace unlikability. Insist that your book needs to be in the…
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The Memoir Land Author Questionnaire #111: Justin Hocking
"My hope is that mapping my own mistakes and foibles might help us navigate our current cultural and political predicaments."
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The Memoir Land Author Questionnaire #110: Melissa Febos
"I try to treat people in my work the same way I seek to treat them in life: with honesty and great care." PLUS, my video interview with the author.
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The Memoir Land Author Questionnaire #109: Samantha Mann
"It will always be subversive for women, particularly a queer woman, to write about her life."
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