The Magic of Memoir
Title | The Magic of Memoir PDF eBook |
Author | Linda Joy Myers |
Publisher | Simon and Schuster |
Pages | 344 |
Release | 2016-11-15 |
Genre | Reference |
ISBN | 1631521489 |
The Magic of Memoir is a memoirist’s companion for when the going gets tough. Editors Linda Joy Myers and Brooke Warner have taught and coached hundreds of memoirists to the completion of their memoirs, and they know that the journey is fraught with belittling messages from both the inner critic and naysayers, voices that make it hard to stay on course with the writing and completion of a book. In The Magic of Memoir, 38 writers share their hard-won wisdom, stories, and writing tips. Included are Myers's and Warner's interviews with best-selling and widely renown memoirists Mary Karr, Elizabeth Gilbert, Dr. Azar Nafisi, Dani Shapiro, Margo Jefferson, Raquel Cepeda, Jessica Valenti, Daisy Hernández, Mark Matousek, and Sue William Silverman. This collection has something for anyone who's on the journey or about to embark on it. If you're looking for inspiration, The Magic of Memoir will be a valuable companion. Contributors include: Jill Kandel, Eanlai Cronin, Peter Gibb, Lynette Charity, Lynette Charity, Roseann M. Bozzone, Carol E. Anderson, Bella Mahaya Carter, Krishan Bedi, Sarah Conover, Leza Lowitz, Nadine Kenney Johnstone, Lynette Benton, Kelly Kittel, Robert W. Finertie, Rita M. Gardner, Robert Hammond, Marina Aris, LaDonna Harrison, Jill Smolowe, Alison Dale, Vanya Erickson, Sonvy Sammons, Laurie Prim, Ashley Espinoza, Jing Li, Nancy Chadwick-Burke, Dhana Musil, Crystal-Lee Quibell, Apryl Schwab, Irene Sardanis, Jude Walsh, Fran Simone, Rosalyn Kaplus, Rosie Sorenson, Rosie Sorenson, Jerry Waxler, and Ruthie Stender.
The Sue Kim Story
Title | The Sue Kim Story PDF eBook |
Author | Sarah Gerdes |
Publisher | Createspace Independent Publishing Platform |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2016-02-12 |
Genre | Korean American women |
ISBN | 9781477509418 |
It is a story of a child growing up surrounded by immense privilege, losing it all to war, singing on the streets to keep her family alive, being discovered and literally coming to America at the beginning of the glamorous sixties. Ignorant of racial barriers, Sue led the singing trio, The Kim Sisters, to mainstages across the US, a first for an Asian performer. Then they broke the television barrier, appearing on every major network, and the Ed Sullivan show, a total of 22 times, a network record. After that came radio, movies, throwing out the first baseball at the MBL game and attending the premier opening of the very first Playboy Club.
Sue's Story
Title | Sue's Story PDF eBook |
Author | Sue Owen |
Publisher | Metro Publishing |
Pages | 173 |
Release | 2007-02-28 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 1857826132 |
Sue Owen was born in 1968. She lived near London until her legal fight began and she relocated to Oxfordshire with her husband and family. She works locally and this is her first book.
The Cat in the Hat
Title | The Cat in the Hat PDF eBook |
Author | Dr. Seuss |
Publisher | HarperCollins UK |
Pages | 66 |
Release | 2010 |
Genre | Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | 000734869X |
Two children sitting at home on a rainy day are visited by the Cat in the Hat who shows them some tricks and games.
Seesaw Girl
Title | Seesaw Girl PDF eBook |
Author | Linda Sue Park |
Publisher | Houghton Mifflin Harcourt |
Pages | 92 |
Release | 1999 |
Genre | Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | 0395915147 |
Impatient with the constraints put on her as an aristocratic girl living in Korea during the seventeenth century, twelve-year-old Jade Blossom determines to see beyond her small world.
The Weary Blues
Title | The Weary Blues PDF eBook |
Author | Langston Hughes |
Publisher | Courier Dover Publications |
Pages | 99 |
Release | 2022-01-31 |
Genre | Poetry |
ISBN | 0486850560 |
Immediately celebrated as a tour de force upon its release, Langston Hughes's first published collection of poems still offers a powerful reflection of the Black experience. From "The Weary Blues" to "Dream Variation," Hughes writes clearly and colorfully, and his words remain prophetic.
The Case for Fanfiction
Title | The Case for Fanfiction PDF eBook |
Author | Ashley J. Barner |
Publisher | McFarland |
Pages | 219 |
Release | 2017-10-31 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 1476668779 |
Challenging readers to rethink what they read and why, the author questions the aesthetic assumptions that have led to the devaluing of fanfiction--a genre criticized as both tasteless and derivative--and other "guilty pleasure" reading (and writing), including romance and fantasy. The complicated relationship between "fanfic" and intellectual property rights is discussed in light of the millennia-old tradition of derivative literature, before modern copyright law established originality as the hallmark of great fiction. "Absorbed reading"--the practice of immersing oneself in the narrative versus critically "reading from a distance"--is a strong motive for the appropriation by fanfiction of canon characters and worlds.