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Memoir Review: Bobblehead Dad
I was nervous when I first picked up Bobblehead Dad, Jim Higley’s new memoir about his battle with cancer. Ever since I became a mother, four years ago, my emotional quota has essentially been drained....
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Interview: Beverly Donofrio, memoirist/essayist
Beverly Donofrio is the author of Riding in Cars with Boys and Looking for Mary. I first met Beverly Donofrio at Wilkes University, where I was studying my MFA and she was a faculty member. It was a...
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Interview: Literary Agent Weronika Janczuk by Amye Archer
When I was in college, as a naive twenty something, I imagined a literary agent to be on par with a unicorn: a magical being that can transport you from one place (unpublished) to another (published)...
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Interview: Linda Joy Myers, President and Founder of National Association of...
I always say that memoir is the most dangerous thing you can write. You sit down, spill your heart onto the page with the best intentions, and the next thing you know you are getting angry emails from...
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Bed Time by Amye Archer
My twin daughters rest their heads against me, nestled into the space between my head and my neck, flanking me like earrings. Above us, their ceiling is low, an attic roof sloped steeply and covered...
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Memoir Review: Bobblehead Dad
I was nervous when I first picked up Bobblehead Dad, Jim Higley’s new memoir about his battle with cancer. Ever since I became a mother, four years ago, my emotional quota has essentially been drained....
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Interview: Beverly Donofrio, memoirist/essayist
Beverly Donofrio is the author of Riding in Cars with Boys and Looking for Mary. I first met Beverly Donofrio at Wilkes University, where I was studying my MFA and she was a faculty member. It was a...
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Interview: Literary Agent Weronika Janczuk by Amye Archer
When I was in college, as a naive twenty something, I imagined a literary agent to be on par with a unicorn: a magical being that can transport you from one place (unpublished) to another (published)...
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Interview: Linda Joy Myers, President and Founder of National Association of...
I always say that memoir is the most dangerous thing you can write. You sit down, spill your heart onto the page with the best intentions, and the next thing you know you are getting angry emails from...
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Bed Time by Amye Archer
My twin daughters rest their heads against me, nestled into the space between my head and my neck, flanking me like earrings. Above us, their ceiling is low, an attic roof sloped steeply and covered...
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Arms Wide Open delivers message about motherhood, Mother Earth
The civil unrest of the sixties and seventies has been over for almost fifty years, but in Arms Wide Open: A Midwife’s Journey, Patricia Harman (Beacon Press) manages to remind my generation...
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The First Time
Ryan’s efficiency apartment hangs off the side of a perfectly manicured duplex like an abscess. As I navigate the maze of dried brown hedge and partially lifted sidewalks, the cold winter air whips...
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