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The Memoir Land Author Questionnaire #152: Mary Elizabeth Williams
"What I really love to do is use my experiences as a jumping off point to talk about larger issues, to learn, and to interview people."
Nov 14
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The Memoir Land Author Questionnaire #151: Sasha Bonét
"'The Waterbearers' reimagines not just how we think of Black women, but how we think of ourselves—as individuals, parents, communities, and a country."
Nov 11
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The Memoir Land Author Questionnaire in Review...
A look at a handful of interviews from earlier in the series.
Nov 7
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Sari Botton
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The Memoir Land Author Questionnaire #150: Melissa Fraterrigo
"I wanted to explore my life as a way to better understand my daughters and girlhood in general."
Nov 4
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The Memoir Land Author Questionnaire #149: Mike Albo
"I am excited by the potential of audio originals. This feels like a really wonderful, newish genre where artists like me, who straddle performance and…
Oct 31
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The Memoir Land Author Questionnaire #148: Julie M. Green
"If you’re scared, then you’re probably doing it right. Also: if you have a story that won’t leave you alone, then the world needs to hear it."
Oct 28
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The Memoir Land Author Questionnaire #147: Lana Lin
"I want to make people see things differently or see things they couldn’t see without my bringing them together in a certain way."
Oct 24
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The Memoir Land Author Questionnaire #146: Anne Pinkerton
"Just drafting the thing was terribly painful because the content was so emotionally taxing. I couldn’t count the number of crying breaks required to…
Oct 21
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The Memoir Land Author Questionnaire #145: Jocelyn Jane Cox
"One of my many goals with this book was to portray the complexities and devastation of dementia and to share the little-told story of caregivers."
Oct 17
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The Memoir Land Author Questionnaire #144: Susan Ostrov
"There are many men who paraded through my long love life, and I gave them pseudonyms in alphabetical order, to keep them straight. This worked well…
Oct 14
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Sari Botton
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The Memoir Land Author Questionnaire #143: Elena Sheppard
"This book is very much about memory, and the way memory functions, and I thought a lot about how to make it very clear that this is no one’s truth but…
Oct 10
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The Memoir Land Author Questionnaire #142: Christina Rivera
"The literary world—without authentic accounts of motherhood—would be lonely, unfair, and dishonest."
Oct 7
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