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memoir land sari botton substack subscribe sign in home podcast first person singular the lit lab memoir monday goodbye to all that archive about memoir monday personal essay roundup 8 17 26 plus scroll down to the bottom for so many great workshops and calls for submissions 43 mins ago memoir land 8 1 3 latest top discussions the memoir land author questionnaire 230 julia cohen the secrets that feel impossible to say aloud are often the most important ones to share aug 14 sari botton 27 3 2 the prompt o matic 131 a little something to get you writing aug 13 11 5 3 how a book and its cover were reunited after the passage of a long period of time aug 12 memoir land and howard a rodman 27 7 5 the memoir land author questionnaire 229 eliot glazer the book is a collection of funny essays so i guess that would technically be a memoir but memoir sounds really heavy in relation to a book with a aug 11 sari botton 34 4 7 memoir monday personal essay roundup 8 10 26 plus scroll down to the bottom for so many great workshops and calls for submissions aug 10 memoir land 44 8 13 the memoir land author questionnaire 228 rebecca wright stevens i ve written for 63 years while raising children and practicing law two pages a week may not sound like much but over 63 years it added up to 6 file aug 7 sari botton 29 12 3 the prompt o matic 130 a little something to get you writing aug 6 15 4 3 how gauguin got between us thao thai considers the beginning of the end of an early romantic relationship aug 5 thao thai 48 10 7 the memoir land author questionnaire 227 darcey steinke pain points to something very deep within us and connects us to humanity as a whole aug 4 sari botton 35 7 3 see all memoir land four verticals edited by sari botton memoir monday collab w granta narratively the rumpus orion the walrus electric lit lithub oldster first person singular original essays the lit lab interviews craft goodbye to all that nyc stories subscribe recommendations view all 45 good decisions glynnis macnicol how i learned blaise allysen kearsley literary liberation literary liberation the privilege to feel stephanie land girls of a certain age kim france first person singular the sandwich yi xue looks back on the lunch staple that marked her first meal in america and served as something of a rite of passage remember us as we were for kasey payette queer heartbreak leads to an investigation of burial practices historical erasure and what details of our lives will outlast us close the cabinet starina catchatoorian recalls giving her ex husband an ultimatum the sitting month jiadai lin examines her relationship with her mother during the first month postpartum a tender and sensitive time of healing in chinese culture not everyone survived lori yeghiayan friedman weighs the lasting trauma of a 1988 car accident that took the lives her her high school classmates in defense of sydney looking back at journal entries he wrote as a love lorn closeted teen mike albo finds kinship with a needy ai chatbot the lit lab how s the writing going deesha philyaw for me getting better as a writer is learning how to get to the essence of things and boil down all of that exposition and backstory writing and rushing novelist richard mirabella would like to remind you and himself to resist the pressure to finish your book in a flash how s the writing going cheryl strayed i love writing i really do even though i often hate it at various points in the process learning to accept that has been so important to me how s the writing going r o kwon i know that when i m really writing when i m really really lost in a sentence i forget i have a body i forget what time is i forget to eat how s the writing going bernice mcfadden fellow libras bernice mcfadden and sari botton talk about the challenges of writing personal narrative identifying the right nonfiction sub genre and writing under pseudonyms three time memoirist switches to narrative nonfiction helene stapinski on taking a break from a genre she loves but which often landed her in hot water with family memoir land subscribe about archive recommendations sitemap 2026 sari botton privacy terms collection notice start your substack get the app substack is the home for great culture this site requires javascript to run correctly please turn on javascript or unblock scripts

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