Category Archives: memoir writing

Why we like memoirs

Posted on July 11, 2011 by moonbridgebooks

Writer Arielle Ford says in a May 16 HuffPo article that she loves memoirs. They are a very popular genre these days. Here’s her list of why we love memoirs: • They read like fiction which holds our creative attention … Continue reading →

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Picking on Joyce Carol Oates’s memoir

Posted on May 16, 2011 by moonbridgebooks

Oh, my. Julian Bond of the New York Book Review wrote of Joyce Carol Oates’s A Widow’s Story that Oates should have told her readers she had remarried. What? But wait, Oates’s beloved husband of close to 50 years died … Continue reading →

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In the Garden of Beasts, in the garden of your life

Posted on May 15, 2011 by moonbridgebooks

I arrived at Erik Larson’s author event the other night to be ushered into a small overflow room with a TV viewer. There were about 250 people total in the audiences; I did not know Larson was so popular. I … Continue reading →

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