by Allyson Latta DANIEL NESTER is the author of How to Be Inappropriate, a humorous creative nonfiction collection. Earlier collections, God Save My Queen and God Save My Queen II,... read more
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Interview by Allyson Latta Photo by George Whiteside The Penguin Book of Memoir, published in April 2011, is a stirring and varied collection of stories... read more
Guest Post by Barbara Trendos My idea of writing a mock journal turned out to be not so far beyond the realm of possibility. The Canadian YMCA had distributed log... read more
Guest Post by Barbara Trendos It was one night over thirty years ago when Dad first brought out that plain, beat-up file folder. Although I can’t recall what prompted him to... read more
Read Part 1 of my interview with Barbara. AL: In what way do you believe food memoirs can inspire? BFW: Food memoirs might inspire readers to a greater understanding of individuals and... read more
“Food memoirists understand that they are writing about everyone’s strongest basic instincts as they tell their own life stories. Food memoirs increasingly command our respect as we respond to their... read more