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		<title>Stephen Markley Interview Part 6: Post-publication blues?</title>
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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. ]]></description>
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		<title>Interview about crossing from academic to popular writing</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Robert: Some of my writing has been what could be called " academic" in this context. Especially academic journal  articles, etc.  But I have always liked to think of myself as a "public" person in this regard. Much of my work has been out in the community, trying to convince people that reading and discussing literature is a worthwhile activity, perhaps one of the more important ways to keep us human. ]]></description>
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		<title>Learn the inner and outer dimensions of memoir writing</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Apr 2010 11:53:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[And then, Linda Joy goes beyond craft and turns inward towards the heart of the matter. As a professional psychotherapist, Linda Joy helps her clients work through their memories. In this book, she performs a similar service for aspiring memoir writers. In hefty, substantive chapters like "Psychology of Memoir Writing," "The Dark Stuff," and "The Power of Writing to Heal" Linda Joy provides excellent guidance to help you decipher your memories and bring them to the page.]]></description>
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		<title>A leader of memoir writers tells her own story</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[When I studied literature it seemed so obvious to me that writing had a psychological component, but in the lit classes this was almost never acknowledged. I'd always thought I wanted to bring the two together somehow, but for a long time couldn't see how to do it. I kept working on my own writing, and then the studies by Dr. Pennebaker and others were published. After I discovered that exciting research, I had a sense of how to integrate my version of healing and psychology with writing--through writing healing stories.]]></description>
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		<title>Answers to Frequently asked questions about &#8220;How to write a memoir&#8221;</title>
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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>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>Memoir interview about privacy, activism, style</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Oct 2009 11:34:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I hope the book does inspire people to, most of all, learn more about their environment, and from that learning, develop a greater connection with their local land, which will naturally lead to the kind of advocacy and stewardship that creates enduring ecological change. I also hope the book helps people see not just more of the connections between cancer and ecological degradation and destruction, but between healing and finding kinship with the trees, fields, birds, skies and other aspects of our homes around us.]]></description>
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		<title>Memoir author speaks of spirituality, religion, and cancer</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Oct 2009 11:16:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I think it's far more effective to describe the big stuff of life -- spiritual struggles, traumas and wounds, giant yearnings or losses -- by entering through the backdoor. By that, I mean you can convey the depth of what you're writing by aiming toward specific detail and specific moments instead of making pronouncements about what it all means.]]></description>
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		<title>Teaching Memoirs, Meeting Locals, Making Memories</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Oct 2009 11:02:02 +0000</pubDate>
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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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