Welcome to today’s writing session! ✨ 🍹 Sipping on: White Linen inspired by Likeable Cocktails 🎧 Listening to: “Mesopotamia” by The B-52’s #movingbravely #memoir #griefjourney
#MEMOIR
‘When I read my sister’s stories I think, that’s not what it was like!’: #EstherFreud on the perils of writing about family
The Hideous Kinky author has always drawn inspiration from her own experiences. Now her sister Bella is writing her own version of their childhood. Does fact or fiction come closer to the truth, she asks
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2025/jun/29/when-i-read-my-sisters-stories-i-think-thats-not-what-it-was-like-esther-freud-on-the-perils-of-writing-about-family #writing #memoir #familyHistory
“It is uncommon for a #memoir documenting a #loveaffair with a famous #author to be written by another experienced #writer. Meaker’s tale of words and wounds is technical, detailed, and psychologically acute.” #PatriciaHighsmith iverson.substack.com/p/tt-532-mar...
TT 532: Marijane Meaker’s memo...
A map of the village where I grew up and have been writing a little about. #map #memoir #words #writing #substack
I find it surprising some days, just how motivating rejection can be. It doesn’t have to be real rejection, either, which is a kicker. It can simply be a perceived snub, or even your basic, run-of-the-mill projection over what I think others might be thinking about me. I sometimes wonder if I was always this crazy, or if I was just too busy to notice, until now.
#Writing #Medium #Memoir #Creativity https://medium.com/ellemeno/fueling-the-creative-furnace-with-spite-2ab2c39a5180
Keisha Lance Bottoms Set to Publish Memoir Amid 2026 Gubernatorial Bid https://shinemycrown.com/keisha-lance-bottoms-set-to-publish-memoir-amid-2026-gubernatorial-bid/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon #KeishaLanceBottoms #Memoir #GubernatorialBid #GeorgiaPolitics #Atlanta
This quote from Jo Harkin's extraordinary novel, The Pretender, has had me cackling since last night:
"Beatrice says 'self' like it’s one thing. He thinks of Little John, Lambert, Edward, Simnel. All clamoring at once, like the seven heads of the horned, leopard-bodied, bear-footed beast of Revelation that came out of the sea, making a hideous wailing and whistling and growling.
Nobody looked at that beast and said:
Ho: you should write a book."
Out Of Town News And Me: My brief and tumultuous tenure working at the famed #Harvard Square newsstand was nothing if not formative https://horizonmass.news/2025/06/26/out-of-town-news-and-me/ #memoir #history #journalism #Cambridge #Massachusetts
Today in Labor History June 26, 1975: Two FBI agents and one member of the American Indian Movement (AIM) were killed in a shootout on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota. Undercover FBI agents framed AIM activist Leonard Peltier for the two FBI deaths. During the trial, some of the government’s own witnesses testified that Peltier wasn’t even present at the scene of the killings. Nevertheless, a judge him to two consecutive life terms. Peltier admitted to participating in the shoot-out in his memoir, “Prison Writings, My Life in the Sundance.” However, he denied killing the FBI agents. He became eligible for parole in 1993. Amnesty International, Nelson Mandela, Mother Teresa, and the Dalai Lama, all campaigned for his clemency. President Obama denied his request for clemency in 2017. On January 19, 2025, the last full day of his presidency, Joe Biden commuted Peltier's life sentence to home confinement. Peltier’s health had been declining for several years.
#workingclass #LaborHistory #americanindianmovement #aim #leonardpeltier #FBI #prison #pineridge #politicalprisoner #indigenous #nativeamerican #memoir #books #author #writer #bookstadon
In the Memoir category, the finalists are Falling to Fly by Todd Fahnestock, The Mountains We Climb by Erin Boydstun Kohler, and A Tree with My Name on It by Victress Hitchcock.
#calawards #memoir #books #awardwinning
"Sitting with the pictures and someone else’s grief, you have to look away. You stare at a bright patch of purple climbing up the wall. Tiny white stamens in the middle of each flower like neat buttons. You watch them while your landlady keeps talking about the picture." —Ella Harrigan for Split Lip Magazine
#TheMetalDogArticleList
#BraveWords–WhereMusicLives
DEREK SHULMAN Chronicles Remarkable Life And Career In “Giant Steps” Memoir; Includes Foreword By TONY VISCONTI; Video Trailer
#DerekShulman #TonyVisconti #GiantSteps #Memoir #Bravewords #MetalHistory #ClassicRock #News #VideoTrailer #Jawbo
"The first time I ever saw crack cocaine, it was sitting in mounds on my kitchen table. I was ten years old, and my dad showed Orleane and her friend and me how to weigh and bag it." —Chyana Marie Sage for The Walrus
https://thewalrus.ca/my-father-could-have-changed-the-world-instead-he-changed-mine/
James Dean Biopic About Star’s Purported Gay Romance Finds Its Lead (Exclusive)
#MovieNews #Movies #Biopic #BrandonFlynn #JamesDean #Memoir
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/james-dean-biopic-brandon-flynn-1236297766/
Across Yosemite's Wilderness by Laurel Munson Boyers, 2025
Across Yosemite's Wilderness is a memoir about the life and career of Laurel Boyers—the first woman to serve as the Wilderness Manager in the park's history. Laurel also became the first woman to do full-time mounted backcountry patrol throughout the almost 95% of the park that is the Yosemite wilderness.
@bookstodon
#books
#nonfiction
#memoir
#women
#rangers
#Yosemite
From the archives, for #Pride month: “It’s a girl,” the nurse said, softly. My mother smiled big, then nodded in silence. That was the first sentence of a book that describes my undoing. That was the first story someone else told for me. https://www.texasobserver.org/memoir-pretty-kb-brookins-excerpt/
#LGBTQIA+ #books #trans #transgender #memoir #culture #bookstodon
1. #MahmoudKhalil got to meet, hold, & love his baby.
2. A former student reached out after many years & we talked for 3 hours about life, gender, academics, & the pursuit of happiness.
3. I submitted final grades, which means the term is over & I can write. I have a presentation on #MobyDick in Sept. so I need to reread that; I have an essay on #Poe due T-giving so I have a bunch of research on that; & I want to continue working on my #memoir about gardening.
Immersed in The Letters of Seamus Heaney edited by Christopher Reid, there's a reference to a piece he wrote in the London Review of Books in 1981 about Nadezhda and Osip Mandelstam. Heaney had an affinity for the work of the great Russian poet and he writes movingly and perceptively about Osip and his wife Nadezhda. She wrote two of the best prose books ever to come out of the turmoils of 20th century Russia, Hope Against Hope and Hope Abandoned. (Nadezhda is 'hope' in Russian.)
In the two volumes she writes about their precarious lives under Soviet rule, Osip's death at the hands of the Stalinist regime, and her life after that, keeping out of the hands of the KGB, and as a living library of Osip's poems and many poems of their great friend Anna Akhmatova. Her memory kept Osip's poems from being obliterated by the regime.
#books #poetry #memoir #history @poetry @bookstodon
https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v03/n15/seamus-heaney/osip-and-nadezhda-mandelstam
There are many layers to my coming out journey, some of which I hope to share over time. It’s difficult to pinpoint exactly when I knew I was gay.
https://medium.com/prismnpen/13-reasons-why-im-gay-b758c9281a0e?sk=2c873d55da42a543d150d1e9aeee597b
Watching the doctor shut off the machines that are breathing for your uncle is a sight that you don’t really ever unsee. Especially if you were only 15 years old at the time.
https://medium.com/prismnpen/how-i-became-the-queer-capable-adult-in-every-room-at-the-age-of-15-566312ae0685
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