The Case for Writing a Memoir in Essays

When Sonja Livingston began to write about her life with an itinerant mother and six siblings in the raw corners of western New York, she wrote, she says, in snatches. “I wrote of living in apartments and tents and motel rooms. Of places where corn and cabbage grew in great swaths. Of the Iroquois on […] Continue reading at 'Literrary Hub'

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[ The Bookseller | 2019-04-13 00:00:00 UTC ]
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