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The Memoir Land Author Questionnaire #80: Rebe Huntman
"I began this memoir with three questions that were rich and deep enough to sustain me over the years it took to turn them over in the light that became…
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The Memoir Land Author Questionnaire #79: Samra Zafar
"My story is unfortunately the story of millions of women around the world, and I had to do my part to make a difference. "
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The Memoir Land Author Questionnaire #78: Nina Sharma
"Strangely, even though I write nonfiction, I have to think of myself as a character to get out of my own way and basically tell on myself."
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The Memoir Land Author Questionnaire #77: Megan Marshall
"The hardest part of this book for me was believing that my personal experience could be interesting to others. I’d always hidden behind my well-known…
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The Memoir Land Author Questionnaire #76: Jeffrey Wade Gibbs
"Peril is a memoir exploring my father's suicide and its connection to the racial violence of south Georgia."
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The Memoir Land Author Questionnaire #75: Lola Kirke
"If what you write is authentic to you, you might lose people. But you will undoubtedly find yourself. Decide if you can handle that."
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The Memoir Land Author Questionnaire #74: Susan Kiyo Ito
"A dozen years after I met my birth mother, I started an MFA program and began writing it down, but fictionally...After all, the core of my story was…
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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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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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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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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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The Memoir Land Author Questionnaire #69: Sherrie Flick
"The memoir arose organically from an exploration of place. Me trying to figure out the why of where I came from, the why of how I could not seem to…
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