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The Memoir Land Author Questionnaire

The Memoir Land Author Questionnaire #55: Christina Myers
"There’s almost nothing better than someone reaching out and saying, 'Me too, I know what you mean, I saw myself in that.'"
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The Memoir Land Author Questionnaire #54: Frances Badalamenti
"Instead of expanding into scene from memory, I allowed myself the freedoms that come with fiction-writing..."
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The Memoir Land Author Questionnaire #53: Charlotte Shane
"The difficulty these questions point to—discrepancy in experience, discrepancy in comfort with disclosure–can’t be eliminated in life or in art."
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The Memoir Land Author Questionnaire #52: Jennifer Lunden
"For twenty years, researching and writing this book became my raison d'être."
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The Memoir Land Author Questionnaire #51: Jonathan Lerner
"People are rarely as shocked as you fear they might be. If your writing is true to yourself and believable, they'll accept it. Or, most will."
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The Memoir Land Author Questionnaire #50: Former U.S. Capitol Police Sergeant Aquilino Gonell
"If you find yourself in the middle of an insurrection, take notes!...While I was writing 'American Shield,' I was still processing what happened on…
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The Memoir Land Author Questionnaire #49: Sarah LaBrie
"Writing this book I learned there were names for what was going on in my mother’s brain and for how that changed us both. I hope people in similar…
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The Memoir Land Author Questionnaire #48: Gila Pfeffer
"An additional and equally important benefit of telling my story was that I knew it would serve as a cautionary tale to readers and maybe even save some…
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The Memoir Land Author Questionnaire #47: Dale Corvino
"I’m obsessed with transportation and travel logistics, beyond what I need to do for my day job. I write about them too, often in the form of sexual…
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The Memoir Land Author Questionnaire #46: Jasper Joyner
"I’ve been calling it a biomythography, a term coined by Audre Lorde. She described it as a story that combines history, biography, and myth for her…
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The Memoir Land Author Questionnaire #45: Colleen Long & Rebecca Little
"In the middle of our research Roe was overturned and so it took on a critical urgency as so many people who never intended to end a pregnancy are now…
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The Memoir Land Author Questionnaire #44: Joanne Greene
"I’m not sure that I could have written about my parents and siblings in the way that I did if they were still alive."
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