I Wrote My Memoir for the Same Reasons I Went to the Shooting Range

This is before, so I’m double-washing only because I’m about to head into the range where Manny, the ex-SWAT, ex-Navy firearms instructor my friend and I have hired, will have his hands around mine. We’ve been learning on decoys for two hours, and now it’s time to shoot for real. I mean to emerge from […] Continue reading at 'Literrary Hub'

[ Literrary Hub | 2020-07-08 08:49:20 UTC ]
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I Wrote My Memoir for the Same Reasons I Went to the Shooting Range

This is before, so I’m double-washing only because I’m about to head into the range where Manny, the ex-SWAT, ex-Navy firearms instructor my friend and I have hired, will have his hands around mine. We’ve been learning on decoys for two hours, and now it’s time to shoot for real. I mean to... Continue reading at Literrary Hub

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Why Safiya Sinclair cut her dreadlocks and wrote a memoir of pain and poetry

Safiya Sinclair was raised to be Rastafari; instead, she became a poet. Why it took her more than a decade to write the lyrical memoir 'How to Say Babylon' Continue reading at Los Angeles Times

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I wrote a memoir about my family's secrets. Then I had to move back in with them

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The real reason Jay Manuel from ‘ANTM’ made his debut novel fiction, not a memoir

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Two Brothers finds reason in Haig's memoir

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Brace Yourself, James Comey Wrote a Memoir. Here’s Some of What It Says, “the Golden Showers Thing” Included.

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Kate Banks, Children’s Author Who Wrote About Grief, Dies at 64

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