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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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The Memoir Land Author Questionnaire #108: Chyana Marie Sage
"I wanted to make sure I was being honest, delicate, respectful, and loving with the telling of all of our perspectives."
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The Memoir Land Author Questionnaire #107: Nina B. Lichtenstein
"Every time I sit down to write it surprises me how much it feels as necessary as breathing. Writing is a life force for me, a true survival tool I rely…
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The Memoir Land Author Questionnaire #106: Margaret Mandell
"Memoir universalizes, I think, when readers see their own vulnerabilities in the characters in the story."
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The Memoir Land Author Questionnaire #105: Cindy Eastman
"I think I finally 'became' a writer when I realized that I really needed writing in my life in order to make sense of it."
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The Memoir Land Author Questionnaire #104: Tom McAllister
"In 'It All Felt Impossible' I’ve written a short essay for every year of my life."
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The Memoir Land Author Questionnaire #103: Joyce Wadler
"I’m not enough of a masochist to run my work past other people. I try not to be a jerk when I write about them...But if you write to please other…
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