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The Memoir Land Author Questionnaire 213: Adassa
"I wanted to skip to the part where it worked out. The book kept asking me not to."
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The Memoir Land Author Questionnaire 212: Caroline Bicks
"I asked Stephen King and his wife Tabitha if I could spend a year exploring the early drafts of the 1970s books that had scared me so badly when I was…
Jun 12
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The Memoir Land Author Questionnaire 211: Cinelle Barnes
"'A Way Home' is an 'accidental' hybrid: a travel-medical memoir. I set out to write a travelogue but as I was wrapping up the manuscript, I had a brain…
Jun 9
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The Memoir Land Author Questionnaire 210: Lydia Pang
"I wrote the book as if no one would ever read it and it felt amazing."
Jun 5
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The Memoir Land Author Questionnaire 209: Jack Parlett
"Flamboyance, I argue, is a form of creativity, an act of protest, and an expression of our deepest passions—an inner flame we all possess, and one that…
Jun 2
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The Memoir Land Author Questionnaire 208: Wendy Swift
"'A Dream Life' affirms that anyone can unknowingly fall prey to false beliefs, but once the truth is revealed and the fear of dislocation and upheaval…
May 29
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The Memoir Land Author Questionnaire 207: Ada Ferrer
"'In 1963, four years after Fidel Castro came to power, my mother made the agonizing decision to flee Cuba with me, her infant daughter, and to leave…
May 26
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The Memoir Land Author Questionnaire 206: Fazlur Rahman, M.D.
"I began the memoir many years ago and wrote a 130,000-word manuscript, even after I cut it down, forgetting that I wasn’t a Stephen King."
May 22
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The Memoir Land Author Questionnaire 205: Emily Rapp Black
"There is so much life-affirming purpose in writing truthfully about the experiences that make you human. And when readers engage with that, they feel…
May 19
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The Memoir Land Author Questionnaire 204: T. Alex Blum
"My book is a memoir, set in motion by my connection, late in life, to my three younger full brothers, whose existence I was unaware of because my birth…
May 15
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The Memoir Land Author Questionnaire 203: Jill Christman
"I was writing it because it was my responsibility to tell the story of my second-trimester abortion. I had the skills to tell my story and the…
May 12
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The Memoir Land Author Questionnaire 202: Tracy Clark-Flory
"I learned our mom was one of over a million women who in the pre-Roe era were pulled into a coercive system designed to turn 'bad girls' into proper…
May 8
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