Briggs, Julia.
Contents: Beginning : The voyage out (1915) -- Into the night : Night and day (1919) -- 'Our press arrived on Tuesday' : Monday or Tuesday (1921) -- In search of Jacob : Jacob's room (1922) -- A woman connects : The common reader (1925) -- 'What a lark! What a plunge!' : Mrs. Dalloway (1925) -- Writing itself : To the lighthouse (1927) -- 'The secret of life is ...' : Orlando (1928) -- To the women of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harcourt, Inc. 2005
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 823.912 BRIBrooks, Melanie
Summary: "Acclaimed memoirists describe the process of writing their most painful memories In her attempt to write a memoir about her father's death from a secret AIDS infection in 1985, Melanie Brooks was left with some painful questions: What does it take to write an honest memoir? And what happens to us when we embark on that journey? Would she manage it? Brooks sought guidance from the memoirists...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Beacon Press 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 808.06 BROBirkerts, Sven.
Summary: "In The Art of Time in Memoir, critic, editor, and memoirist Sven Birkerts examines the human impulse to write about the self. "Memoir is, for better and often for worse, the genre of our times," Birkerts writes. But what makes one memoir memorable and another self-serving? What determines the difference between graceful disclosure and sensational self-exposure? Birkerts argues that the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Graywolf Press 2008