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 I'm working on a book about Samuel Barber and his Adagio for Strings. Here are some excerpts: "The Saddest Music Ever Written."
My review of John Abel's: The Last Word: Sixty-One American Epitaphs.
From Open Letters: A Monthly Arts and Literature Review, here's my take on two recent Katrina books by Dan Baum and Dave Eggers.
My latest Reader article is "Nonprofits Nonplussed," the story of San Diego community groups doing less with less during the recession.
Three weeklong memoir-writing workshops in 2010: "Keep the Memoir Going" at Ghost Ranch Santa Fe, New Mexico, beginning May 30. "Keep the Memoir Going" at The Loft, Minneapolis, MN, beginning August 16. "Writing the Memoir" at Ghost Ranch, Abiququ, NM, beginning October 10.
In late July and early August, I'll be a visiting writer at the Summer Residency MFA program, at Ashland University in Ohio. |
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Memoir Writing Workshops
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A memoir is a story that focuses on the meaning and intensity of a singular relationship in the author’s life—unresolved feelings for a parent, a child, a sibling, a friend; coming to terms with a loss, an illness, a death; remembering a significant phase like childhood or adolescence or a period like college in which the writer was challenged or changed.
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Memoir Writing Books
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This thoughtfully reasoned and lucidly written book delves further into the dynamics of the new memoir than anything I know of, and is sure to spark discussion, help guide would-be practitioners, and bring much-needed illumination to a vexed subject. Phillip Lopate,
author of The Art Of The Personal Essay
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