“There is a fashion today among many of my contemporaries to treat the events of their past with irony. It is a legitimate method of self-defense. ‘Look how absurd I was when I was young’ forestalls cruel criticism, but it falsifies history. We were not Eminent Georgians. Those emotions were real when we felt them. Why should we be more ashamed of them than of the indifference of old age? I have tried, however unsuccessfully, to live again the follies and sentimentalities and exaggerations of the distant time, and to feel them, as I felt them then, without irony.” – Graham Greene, from his introduction to his memoir, A Sort Of Life
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Where you write the stories only you can.
A discussion of this emerging art form
Saturday Authentic Writing Workshops with Marta
Once a month I offer a Saturday morning workshop in Manhattan. 10am-12:30pm at 40 Exchange Place, down by Wall Street. These are writing studios where writing definitely happens. You will take home a good deal of fresh writing plus the momentum and enthusiasm to keep going. See AuthenticWriting.com for dates.
What This Blog's About
I write memoir. I'm also co-director of Authentic Writing, a program of writing workshops that supports writers who want to write directly from their life without consulting anyone first. I'm also a co-founder of the Wodstock Memoir Festival. I wrote The Guru Looked Good and The Imposters. I post my current writing at Experiments in Memoir. So I think about memoir and what writing is about and I wanted a place to let you know what I think. Maybe it'll spark some back and forth. That'd be interesting.
AUTHENTIC WRITING since 1993
Where you write the stories only you can.
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