Category: Launching
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Best Ever “Launching” Memoir Review
Figuring out which group one belongs to is often a crucial step in the process of growing up and has figured prominently in some of my favorite memoirs.
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Launching into Adulthood – Search for Beliefs
when I began teaching memoir writing, I met many aspiring writers who want to make sense of their own journey to find a viable set of beliefs. All the evidence added up to the observation that sorting out one’s belief system can be a crucial task of growing up.
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Launching into Adulthood – Find a Job
Steve Martin, early in his career, was hired to perform at a restaurant. Even though the place was empty, the owner told him to perform anyway, because it would attract customers. Steve Martin’s performance to an empty room is not much different from the daily task of writing any memoir. At first, we all “perform”…
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Launching – from Sex to Love in Memoirs
Until the Memoir Revolution, we only really knew the intimate details of our own sexual maturity. Our cultural narrative about the subject was limited to the laugh-track-laden sex lives of sitcoms, stuck forever in that picturesque limbo between childhood and adulthood. Memoirs take us the rest of the way. Elna Baker, Frank McCourt, and many…
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Launching Memoirs Chronicle Main Tasks to Grow to Adulthood
Elna Baker describes her transition into adulthood with such crisp, engaging storytelling, I think of New York Regional Halloween Dance as a quintessential Launching memoir. In it, she offers an in-depth treatment of what I have come to see as the three fundamental tasks required to make this transition.
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