Consequential Truths: On Writing the Lived Life

Consequential Truths takes a deep look at the profound questions facing the memoir writer.    How do we write with power and integrity about the others in our lives? What do experimentations in form—the braid, the collage, the prose poem, the extended suppose, the memoir in essays, the non-memoir—teach us…

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We Are the Words

“This is—hands down—the best book on writing memoir I’ve ever read.” — Judy Goldman, Together: A Memoir of a Marriage and a Medical Mishap We Are the Words: The Master Memoir Class offers a range of provocative and personal essays. Memoir writer and teacher Beth Kephart offers new ideas about…

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