Q&A: Aldrich on order & randomness
Marcia Aldrich reflects on her Companion to An Untold Story. On her book trailer, Aldrich reads from “what was mine to tell.” After my recent review of her memoir, she gave the e-mail interview below...
View ArticleSpiritual affinities: Tolle, Rilke, Woolf
Spiritual Affinities. I’m pleased to have a guest post today at Daisy Hickman’s Sunny Room Studio on the spiritual insights and strength I’ve drawn from a number of thinkers, especially Eckhart Tolle,...
View ArticlePerils of persona
["Labor of Love Thrift Store," The Plains, Ohio.] Ten Notions About Persona in Nonfiction 1. “Truth is subjectivity.”—Søren Kierkegaard, Concluding Unscientific Postscript. Every human experience is...
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[A book group in Binghamton, New York, and I discuss Shepherd: A Memoir via Skype.] Portraying yourself and family in memoir & creative nonfiction. There will be time, there will be time To prepare...
View ArticlePoetry & prose
David Sanders on sense, sensibility and form in his new collection, and the ‘propensity for the lyrical moment’ in flash essays, poems. As an artist you are not merely concerned with getting your...
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