From "Reactivating Memories During Sleep: Memory Rehearsal During Sleep Can Make a Big Difference in... read more
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From Rudy Wiebe's memoir Of This Earth: A Mennonite Boyhood in the Boreal Forest (Knopf Canada, 2006; Vintage Canada, 2007): "My first memory: water arcing and the length of Liz’s... read more
Excerpt from "Backtalk: Notes Toward an Essay on Memoir," by Richard Hoffman. Read this thought-provoking essay in its entirety here.... read more
From Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal? by Jeanette Winterson: "Truth for anyone is a very complex thing. For a writer, what you leave out says as much... read more
From Lucy Maud Montgomery's slim memoir The Alpine Path: The Story of My Career (Fitzhenry & Whiteside, 1997), originally published as a series of essays in the Toronto magazine Everywoman's World in... read more
From Inside Memory: Pages from a Writer's Notebook by Timothy Findley (Toronto: Harper Perennial Canada, 1999; first edition Toronto: HarperCollins Canada, 1990) "Stone Orchard November 11, 1970 Radio In the... read more