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		<title>Spoiled brat? What does spoiled even mean?</title>
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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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		<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>Self-concept and memoirs: The power of purpose</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[To make your memoir as compelling as possible, search for your central mission. What drove you from day to day? When you find it, you will be giving yourself as well as your readers a gift. The wind in your sails that has propelled you through the years, also propels your reader through the pages.]]></description>
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		<title>Stephen Markley Interview Part 3: Satire, Truth, and Risk</title>
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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. ]]></description>
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		<title>Stephen Markley Interview Part 2: Humor and Politics in his Memoir</title>
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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 he regularly receives. But it works for me, making it one of only a handful [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Stephen Markley Interview Part 1: Launching from College to Career</title>
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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.
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		<title>Why Coming of Age Memoirs ought to be a genre</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[But memoirs reveal more than secrets. They also reveal wisdom. In our younger years, we lacked the sophisticated thinking that would have let us make sense of what was going on. When we return to take another look, we identify the causes that tied it all together. ]]></description>
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		<title>Failure to Launch Generates  Dramatic Tension</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Nov 2009 13:18:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Emerging into adulthood is sometimes dubbed "launching," a term that reminds me of a woman in a fur coat smashing a bottle across the bow of a ship being sent to sea on its maiden voyage. My launching did not include getting hit with a bottle of champagne, but I was hit with other substances which contributed to my loss of focus.]]></description>
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