Last week we posted an interview with memoirist Sue William Silverman. This week’s article is an excerpt from her new book, Fearless Confessions: A Writers Guide to Memoir, and is reprinted here with the permission of the author and University of Georgia Press. Writing In Style I love red shoes. Always have, always will. I…
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On Sue William Silverman’s Fearless Confessions: A Writer’s Guide to Memoir
Memoirist Sue William Silverman’s guide for memoir writing is hot off the press this month. Fearless Confessions is immensely useful and absorbing. Its tone is warm, patient, helpful and reassuring, and it is itself an example of its lessons — it reads like a memoir about writing memoir and is quite playful as it goes…
An Email Interview with Sue William Silverman
When fiction writer Janice Eidus (see the From Our Correspondents article of 12/12/02) introduced me to the work of nonfiction writer Sue William Silverman, I knew I wanted to find out what she had to say on memoir writing. After I read both of her memoirs, Because I Remember Terror, Father, I Remember You and…