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Jun.12.2013
One Gay American: Dennis Milam Bensie
One young man at an early age realized that his life was not what others wanted it to be and his feelings for women would turn out to be centered on men. Even as a child he hoped to walk down the aisle dressed as a bride and resented learning that his own...
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Jun.07.2013
Photo: Book cover from the book's images on Goodreads
Very odd but very readable memoir that starts off as the story of Karp's extremely messed-up family (she has a few memoirs still left in the tank on this alone). But it then becomes the story of the unfortunate decisions she makes as...
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Jun.06.2013
A lot of people join the military. There are myriad reasons for this – adventure, to see the world, to take some time and figure out whether you want college, and what you want from it. All of those are good, valid reasons. None of them were mine. I spent most of my life in...
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Jun.04.2013
A few thoughts after sending North of Hope into the world:
Memoir is a subcategory of non-fiction, even if creative non-fiction or literary non-fiction. Memoir tells a true story.
Except: if you and I have dinner one week, and recall that dinner the following week, it’s likely we both will recall...
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May.18.2013
“”Up to Sandakan” by Yamazaki Tomoko
I’ve just finished reading this book. Yamazaki Tomoko is the author of “Sandakan Brothel No. 8” and “Up to Sandakan” is her memoir that came out in 2001. The story grabbed my attention right from the beginning and kept going until the...
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May.17.2013
For the next two weeks, Amazon is featuring the non-fiction book I co-authored and it's available on Kindle for only $2.99!! Please help spread the word (I promised my publisher I could rock this)! For those who aren't familiar with the story, it's based on the true story of a family banished...
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May.10.2013
My Japanese brother-in-law (a cultural anthropologist and a linguist who studied Swahili and Kikuyu) once pointed out to me when I was in high school that I should be reading biographies. I took him seriously given his academic credentials but only read three works, Diary of a Genius by Salvador...
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May.10.2013
There’s a celebration of memoirists happening on Saturday, May 11 at noon in Bakersfield, California, and event-goers can get a free margarita.
“Memoirs & Margaritas: Readings From Invisible Memoirs” is a literary fiesta featuring, yes, not only free drinks for the first thirty or so guests,...
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May.07.2013
When I was a young girl, I was, in a way, my mother's doll. I was an extension of herself–an extension of all of her hopes and dreams; it wasn't always easy for many reasons, for the choices she made in life long before I was born and had to live with, for the anger she held inside and acted out on...
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May.05.2013
Harper’s Magazine/April 2013
Once more, mag week rears its journalistic head:
One thing that keeps the better magazines in business is digging into a given subject hard enough and long enough to separate spin from what’s intended, i.e., image from the deeper roots of truth. This issue of...
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