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		<title>Interview with Memoir Author Lisa Fineberg Cook</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Sep 2011 12:38:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have never been particularly concerned with hiding flaws.  I think flaws make people more interesting and because I look for humor in just about every situation, flaws can be especially funny. As far as learning things about myself, I think I learn more in reflection than I do in the moment.  I’m usually just trying to figure out how to deal with a situation when I’m in it and then later -- sometimes even months or years later, I’ll look back and think how differently I’d handle that situation now, or how valuable that lesson was and I didn’t even realize it at the time. When I’m learning things about myself after the fact, it seems like useful information to be incorporated rather than a revelation.]]></description>
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		<title>Spoiled brat? What does spoiled even mean?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Sep 2011 12:09:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[During Lisa’s reaction, readers must make a choice. We could either say, "Dear Lord. It’s only a night with an inconvenient sleeping arrangement. Get over it." Or we could cheer for her, the way her husband did. And that is the real charm of the book. Lisa lets us in on the debate she is having within herself. She generates dramatic tension when she feels discomfort, and then relieves the tension when she decides she can do it.]]></description>
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		<title>Cultural Crossroads: Memoir of An American Princess In Japan</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Sep 2011 12:12:57 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Girls to Women]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Each time I turned the page, I learned more about how people must learn about and get along with each other. In each contrast, whether between sexy single and married adult, Japanese and American, charismatic and ordinary individuals, husbands and wives, I feel like I am peering into the heart of the human condition.]]></description>
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		<title>Spiritual memoirs, interview with author Rick Skwiot</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 25 Jan 2011 13:14:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[His quest was somewhere between the fast living of Henry Miller and the soul searching of Somerset Maugham, and contained some of the elements of my own travels. It's too late to interview Maugham, Miller, or the other world travelers who haunted my imagination during my formative years. But Rick Swiot is alive and willing to talk about the writing of "San Miguel Allende.". Here is the first of several parts of an interview in which I ask him about writing the memoir.]]></description>
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		<title>Seeking Truth in a far off land, &#8220;American Shaolin&#8221; Part 3</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Dec 2009 13:01:56 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[60's]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the 1960s, Timothy Leary suggested "Turn on, tune in, drop out." Many young people, myself included, were seduced into thinking that these three steps would lead to wisdom. For several years I jettisoned social norms. At the end of that road, I believed in nothing. Leary's formula had emptied me without offering anything in return.]]></description>
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		<title>Princeton Student transfers to the School of Hard Knocks or Learning Kung Fu at the Shaolin Temple</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Nov 2009 12:36:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Recently, I saw a memoir "American Shaolin" by Matthew Polly, a young man who dropped out of Princeton to study Kung Fu at the Shaolin Temple in China. I was stunned to learn the place was real and even more astonished that it still existed. At first I resisted reading the book, afraid the real world might ruin my fantasies. Finally curiosity won. I jumped in to "American Shaolin" and kept turning pages to the end.]]></description>
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		<title>Teaching Memoirs, Meeting Locals, Making Memories</title>
		<link>http://memorywritersnetwork.com/blog/memoir-workshop-story/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Oct 2009 11:02:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jerrywaxler</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[All the memoir classes I had taught previously were broken into two hour segments. This workshop would go for eight hours straight, so one challenge would be to tailor the course to this new format. And I worried about my stamina. Would they need to carry me out on a stretcher at the end of the day? Over the next few weeks, I worked out a class schedule that I felt would offer the same value as the individual sessions. And the best way to find out if I could survive an all-day class was to try. My wife and I agreed the Rockies would create a welcome diversion from south eastern Pennsylvania, so we said "Yes. Let's do it."]]></description>
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		<title>Is a Travel Memoir Really a Memoir?</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 15 May 2009 12:27:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jerrywaxler</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In fact, in my perfect world, the book store would have a whole bank of memoirs and autobiographies, including sub-sections for Coming of Age, Overcoming Hardship, and Travel memoirs, to name a few. Here are a few of the features of travel memoirs you might consider when reading your next one, or planning your own.]]></description>
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		<title>Break the Rules! A Travel Memoir with a Twist of Zen</title>
		<link>http://memorywritersnetwork.com/blog/zen-memoir-motorcycle/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Mar 2009 13:39:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jerrywaxler</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The one rule he didn't break was to put a finite time period on his memoir. He did this precisely. Mark Richardson's wrapper story covers the couple of weeks during which he rode his motorcycle from Minneapolis to San Francisco. It's tight, except for the strange fact that the material actually covers decades. It's a feat of literary legerdemain.]]></description>
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		<title>Pets, motion, and other tips from a travel memoir</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Sep 2008 11:23:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jerrywaxler</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Jerry Waxler In my previous essay, I described my overall experience with Doreen Orion&#8217;s travel memoir, &#8220;Queen of the Road.&#8221; In this entry I continue my journey through her journey, finding additional insights that I can take away from this excellent book. Click here for my previous essay about Queen of the Road. Click [...]]]></description>
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