Category: Cultural community
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Keep your memoir in touch with changing gender roles
As I make the journey from being a reader of books to a writer, this line of thinking offers me additional insights. I was already looking at my audience as a collection of cultures, and generations. Now I add genders to the mix. To learn more, I turn toward the memoirs I am reading.
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Lessons for memoir writers from my first year of blogging
When I wanted to tell my own story, I couldn’t figure out how to write in a livelier, more personal style. Then I discovered blogs. Blog audiences expect to know the writer, personally. To fulfill that expectation, I’ve learned to insert opinions, observations, and anecdotes.
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My niece reminded me I’m getting old
by Jerry Waxler Author of Memoir Revolution: Write Your Story, Change the World and How to Become a Heroic Writer While searching the internet for my own last name, I found an article by a Caroline Waxler, about a television show “Mad Men” that shows office workers in the sixties. Caroline, who happens to be…
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Listening Is An Act of Love
by Jerry Waxler Last week, when I was visiting WHYY studio in Philadelphia I saw the mobile StoryCorps van and interviewed facilitator Mike Rauch about what StoryCorps does. It intrigued me so much, I went back to Philly last night to hear Dave Isay the founder of StoryCorps speak at the National Constitution Center. He…
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Bill Novelli, CEO of AARP, transforms life for boomers
Every once in while, the wind blows and the veil of time flutters. Forty years ago, 1,000 miles away, I was hoping to change the world, and now, here in Philadelphia is a woman from that same time and place, trying to work towards social change, at Temple’s Center for Intergenerational Learning. Ahh… There was…
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Barack Obama’s memoir ends with a homecoming
I think Obama raised this question beautifully, and without answering it, let the story do his work for him, by showing us what it was like for him to visit his African family, and let us feel it, see it, hear it ourselves through the art of storytelling.
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Memoirs – self-indulgent or connection to the world?
While I continue to enjoy personal contact, with each passing year I can see that the wave of the twenty first century prefers a village at a distance. That’s okay. We’ll take what we can get. And deepen these online opportunities as much as possible. In the internet age we have an ever expanding opportunity…
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Memoir of 9/11 reaching out along memory lane
by Jerry Waxler I went to a book fair in Philadelphia yesterday, hoping to find a few memoirists. The book fair was held on the sidewalk surrounding the Philadelphia Free Library on the Parkway, a few blocks away from the Philadelphia Museum of Art (made famous by Rocky Balboa). Driving into the city yesterday down…
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