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		<title>Memoir Author Offers Writing and Story Insights</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Oct 2011 12:59:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[My female friendships are such an integral part of my life and my sanity.  They are my 'other husbands' and they are the ones I call when the laundry basket gets too full and the fridge is empty and my hair is a mess and my kids are driving me crazy.  I can literally call them and just give a good primal scream and they say 'I get it. Say no more.' So I wrote this book for them - the ones I know personally and the ones who I imagine would be my friends if I knew them.  They would get the humor, the ridiculousness, the self-effacing attitude. <a href="http://memorywritersnetwork.com/blog/memoir-interview-lisa-fineberg-cook-pt2/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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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. <a href="http://memorywritersnetwork.com/blog/memoir-interview-lisa-fineberg-cook/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Interview with Memoir and YA Author Author Beth Kephart</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Nov 2010 12:31:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Beth: It all comes back to those themes.  I have done all my shaping--all my deciding about what goes in and what stays out, about how much emphasis to put on one thing or another--by standing back and asking myself:  Does this scene advance your themes? Often some of the very best stories must be set aside.  But memoir is not autobiography.  The point is to leave the reader understanding more not just about you, but about him or herself.  It's up to the writer to help the reader in that process. <a href="http://memorywritersnetwork.com/blog/interview-author-beth-kephart/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Stephen Markley Interview Part 6: Post-publication blues?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Aug 2010 11:19:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ It's really rare to get an opportunity like this: to be young and single and unattached and constantly inspired and ferociously hungry. There aren't enough hours in the day to get every idea I have onto paper. I sometimes blink and wonder if all this has actually happened for me.  <a href="http://memorywritersnetwork.com/blog/markley-interview-part-6/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Stephen Markley Interview Part 4: Structure of a Memoir</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Jul 2010 12:43:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Jerry Waxler The first thing that caught my attention when I picked up Stephen Markley&#8217;s &#8220;Publish this Book&#8221; was that it was a parody of itself, a memoir about &#8220;writing this very book.&#8221; This trick of self-conscious awareness, or &#8230; <a href="http://memorywritersnetwork.com/blog/markley-interview-part-4/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Stephen Markley Interview Part 3: Satire, Truth, and Risk</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Jul 2010 11:50:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ But the kind of writing I do--and the kind of writer I want to be--is pretty much predicated on the idea that I am going to swing for the fences more often than not. What some call fearlessness, others will call dreck, and there ain't a whole lot I can do about that.  <a href="http://memorywritersnetwork.com/blog/markley-interview-part-3/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Stephen Markley Interview Part 2: Humor and Politics in his Memoir</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Jul 2010 12:13:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Jerry Waxler &#8220;Publish this Book&#8221; by Stephen Markley is funny from the first glance at the cover to the last page. His quirky, irreverent style of humor does not work for everyone, which is evident from the hate mail &#8230; <a href="http://memorywritersnetwork.com/blog/markley-interview-part-2/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Stephen Markley Interview Part 1: Launching from College to Career</title>
		<link>http://memorywritersnetwork.com/blog/markley-1-launch/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Jul 2010 12:45:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jerrywaxler</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I worried in the book that my story was too normal, too uninteresting to merit attention (there's a whole chapter on it), but I think that's what makes people write to me and say, "Hey, man, this exactly what I'm going through right now." Because most of us just have normal American lives, but even those normal lives are full of drama and conflict and hope and tragedy and hilarity and intrigue and wonder.
 <a href="http://memorywritersnetwork.com/blog/markley-1-launch/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Interview about the relationship between literature and life</title>
		<link>http://memorywritersnetwork.com/blog/literature-and-life/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Jun 2010 11:23:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jerrywaxler</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Literature can teach us important lessons about life; it can give us strength, as you suggest. When we read good literature, we realize we are not alone. We learn about empathy, about ourselves and about others. As the story unfolds, our own lives unfold. We see ourselves and others, understand the complexity of human character, and see how singular each life is, and yet recognize how universal certain patterns and behavior seem to be. I try to show (and tell) my students this all the time. <a href="http://memorywritersnetwork.com/blog/literature-and-life/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Interview with Robert Waxler, English Professor and memoir author, Part 1</title>
		<link>http://memorywritersnetwork.com/blog/robert-waxler-interview-1/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 25 May 2010 11:22:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jerrywaxler</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I started writing in a notebook right away, not because I was thinking about publishing a book, but because I knew that writing itself would be helpful for me, and I wanted a record of the experience and my thoughts about the experience. I wrote as the events unfolded, and I had no clear idea, from day to day, how these experiences would work out, whether Jeremy would recover, the extent of his recovery, the daily impact on all of us in the family, and so on. In addition, Jeremy's suffering was compounded for me by the haunting memories of what had happened to Jonathan. <a href="http://memorywritersnetwork.com/blog/robert-waxler-interview-1/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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