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	<description>200 Essays and Interviews to Help You Read and Write Memoirs</description>
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		<title>Answers to Frequently asked questions about &#8220;How to write a memoir&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Mar 2010 13:21:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[As our days slip into the past, we toss the memories into the storage bins of mind where they grow dusty and tangled. As we look back on them in their disorganized state, naturally they look unkempt. In raw form, memories are merely a conglomeration, not a story.

When someone tells you about any event, whether a baseball game, a childhood memory, or a tour of duty on a battlefront, your interest will be generated as much by the shaping of the story as by the actual experience.]]></description>
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		<title>Lord of the Flies in Los Angeles: The terrible logic of uncivilized boys</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Mar 2010 13:50:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[William Golding's book "Lord of the Flies" created a sense of terror at the Shadow Side that lurks within the human heart. Salzman did the opposite. He showed me a glimpse of compassion where I least expected it.]]></description>
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		<title>Why Coming of Age Memoirs ought to be a genre</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Feb 2010 12:48:51 +0000</pubDate>
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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>Life&#8217;s desires create the chapters of our story</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Feb 2010 13:51:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Every time I finish reading a memoir, I wonder how the author turned life into a story. After years of trying, I believe I have found a simple formula. Each book follows the author from the seed of some desire, through the journey, until they achieve their goal. Now all I need to do is apply that formula to my own memories. For every desire that propelled me, I search for the path it forced me to travel.]]></description>
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		<title>Memoir Interview with Mattew Polly Author of &#8220;American Shaolin&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Jan 2010 12:10:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It's the old saying: "tragedy plus time equals comedy." It was ten years later. And it was hard to feel sorry for myself when so many good things came out of the sacrifice. For one, I was a stronger and more interesting person. For two, I won the Rhodes scholarship almost solely on the strength of the trip. (My grades weren't that great.) If I had written the book right after my return as I tried and failed to do, there probably would have been much more "feel sorry for me" to it.]]></description>
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		<title>Catch-up grief: how visiting my brother helped me grow</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov 2009 11:13:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[As I write my memoir, these 32 years later, I discover the gaping hole his death created, as if I was postponing my grief until I was mature enough to better understand what happened. I now watch our relationship unfold in slow motion, and this time I intend to learn as much as possible about what happened and what I missed.]]></description>
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		<title>Flawed heroes and mechanical body parts: Shaolin Memoir Part 2</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Nov 2009 13:46:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[As my memoir took shape, a more troubled and prickly young man emerged than I ever realized. However, when I saw this flawed character on the page, it didn't look as bad as I had always feared. Instead, I realized many heroes have edgy, even repugnant character flaws. Homer's Ulysses was impulsive. Hamlet was self-involved. Sherlock Holmes was a drug addict. And despite these flaws, or perhaps because of them, readers identify with the hero. So why shouldn't the hero of my memoir also be flawed? This acceptance of my faults liberated me from the exhausting work of pretending I'm perfect.]]></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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		<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>Philadelphia Push To Publish, Lessons in Courage from a Writing Conference</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Oct 2009 12:17:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Funderburg went on to read a passage from her recently published memoir, which I have not yet had an opportunity to read, called "Pig Candy: Taking My Father South, Taking My Father Home: A Memoir." It's about discovering her relationship with her father while he was dying of cancer. The passage was rich in imagery, full of kindness and conveying the same sparkle in her words as danced in her eyes. At the end, I raised my hand and asked, "How did you find your voice?" She hesitated for a moment, and said, "Finding my voice was really a very long journey around a big circle until I finally came back to just being myself."]]></description>
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