The novelist is addicted to seeing parallels and making connections. So the ability to stay with a theme and keep a lot of balls in the air - that part of the memoir writing felt novelistic." ...

Please contact us at [email protected] for help. To some, the act of writing a memoir might seem daunting, invasive, or navel-gazing. But excavating memories, noticing patterns, and revisiting events ...

Mr. McAllister is a novelist and the author of the memoir “Bury Me in My Jersey.” I was grading assignments for an undergraduate course in memoir writing when I experienced a severe crisis of ...