"Thanks, Shelia, I'm so glad to hear that! And your book sounds amazing (Nature, Aesthetics, and Environmentalism)--definitely something I could use for my Globalization, Consumer Culture, and the Environment class!!"
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Leslie Heywood left a comment for Susan Blumberg-Kason
"Thanks for your input, Susan, and good luck with your memoir!"
Susan Blumberg-Kason left a comment for Leslie Heywood
"Hi Leslie,
I got your message through the memoir group about a reading list for your class. I have been working with an independent editor while I write my memoir about my marriage to a man from rural China. This editor gave me a memoir reading…"
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For anyone who creates, edits, writes for anthologies—or wants to. A place to talk about honing the pitch, marketing books, writing for others, herding the cats.
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For anyone who has been asked (by editors, agents, teachers, fellow writers) "But just what IS it?", "How can we market it?", etc.etc.etc.
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- Books I've written, anthologies I've contributed to, and any scripts or plays I've authored:
- Natural Selection: Poems
The Proving Grounds: Poems
The Women's Movement Today: An Encyclopedia of Third Wave Feminism
Built to Win: The Female Athlete as Cultural Icon
Pretty Good for a Girl: A Memoir
Bodymakers: A Cultural Anatomy of Women's Bodybuilding
Third Wave Agenda: Being Feminist, Doing Feminism
Dedication to Hunger: The Anorexic Aesthetic in Modern Culture
- My writing is:
- Nonfiction, Poetry, Memoir, Lit Crit, Theory
- Outlets where I review books, TV, or film:
- yes
- I'm part of these writers' groups or salons:
- no
- My professional associations:
- AWP
Comment Wall (2 comments)
- At 6:28am on July 28, 2009,
Yvonne Strumecki said… - Leslie,
I'm currently in an MFA program and can't say enough about Stephen Kuusisto. We read his memoir "Eavesdropping: A Memoir of Blindness and Listening" and he came to speak/workshop with us. He's a wonderful writer and one of the nicest you'll ever meet. Ran into him at AWP a year later and he was still as charming as ever. If you have any questions, please let me know!
- At 8:36am on July 7, 2009,
Susan Blumberg-Kason said… - Hi Leslie,
I got your message through the memoir group about a reading list for your class. I have been working with an independent editor while I write my memoir about my marriage to a man from rural China. This editor gave me a memoir reading list. Here are some of my favorites:
Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight by Alexandra Fuller (childhood in Rhodesia)
Casting with a Fine Thread by Wendy Kann (childhood in Rhodesia)
Autobiography of a Face by Lucy Grealey (cancer/surgery, living with a deformed face)
Borrowed Finery by Paula Fox (alcoholic parents, abandonment)
Her Mother's Daughter by Linda Carroll (daughter of Paula Fox, mother of Courtney Love)
The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls (dysfunctional family)
I also just finished "Fearless Confessions" by Sue William Silverman, which is like a how-to book for memoir writing and a memoir, all rolled into one.
Good luck with your class! It sounds wonderful!!
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