Resurrecting Proust Unearthing Personal Narratives through Journaling ~Bridges the journal-memoir connection ~Suggests tried and true techniques along with an array of story-generating prompts ~ Provides an excellent resource for extracting expressive and creative personal narratives ~Mines the depths of which personal writing can play an integral part in unearthing your life stories ~Helps you to follow the story of your inner life To the place where memory meets insight

Resurrecting Proust: Unearthing Personal Narratives through Journaling

Biographies & Memoirs

Harris, CoCo

Memoirs

Telling Our Stories Press

The companion journal designed to help unearth personal narratives and memoir using tried and true creative writing and journaling techniques along with a good helping of self-interviewing prompts. Use this guide to follow the stories of your life to the place where memory meets insight.

The Bridge: A Companion Journal for Unearthing Personal Narratives and Memoir

Reference & Collections

The most poetic account of a woman coming to terms with her childhood being raised in a CIA household. The Review of Arts, Literature, Philosophy and the Humanities listed My CIA as a top ten book for 2012: Naming My CIA as a top ten book for 2012, Sarah Lee Fox of The Review of Arts, Literature, Philosophy and the Humanities (RALPH) wrote, "Ms. McCord is a charming writer, and I was knocked out by my My CIA. There is a mix here of the normal and ordinary life, and of the very exotic if now existentially threatening previous life . . . She's a stylist well capable of blending the banal and the scary." —The Review of Arts, Literature, Philosophy and the Humanities Lies and secrecy are just everyday things when you live so close to the CIA. "My CIA" is a memoir from Katherine McCord who shares her stories of growing up so close to the CIA, as her father's missions kept them in the dark about his actions and fate, and an odd air of uncertainty even as they lived in the quiet Midwest. A familial tale of being so close to the CIA, "My CIA" is an informative and curious read. —Midwest Book Review You'll want to read My CIA in one go, like I did, greedily, ready for every twist and in-breath that comes from the intricate layers of this expressionist tale. The poetic suspense of My CIA is a bit like Our Man in Havana colliding with Ariel, with deadpan humor and a poetic wit that cuts through the interstices between personal and public history. The family McCord creates, itself a kind of secret agency, operates like a postmodern dollhouse family with the banal-going-on-mysterious behaviors of Mother, Sisters, the Girls and the Father juxtaposed with genuine enigmas. What family espionage is revealed during a conversation between the Sisters where one holds the phone to the washing machine and the other responds, "But you wash everything"? There are hints of underhand influence and Who is the manipulator? floats above the pages making the reader want to investigate anyone's daily reality; but McCord's language is true blue. My CIA is at once smooth and complex, a comedy of manners and ghostly politics played on the stage of the Cold War, anticipating the epilogue of the 21st century. Best enjoyed with a martini, shaken not stirred. —Kathleene West, author of Summer of the Sub-Comandante and Water Witching Katherine McCord's heartbreaking lyric memoir, My CIA, is a fine example of a literary work in which the artist has found the perfect form to contain the content, a shapely vessel to hold shards of memory and loss. Just as the life and identity of a CIA agent (the author's father) is provisional, the persona narrating this story of a family fractured by a mysterious father's absences is a shape-shifter: now knowing, now child-like, now elegaic, now funny, now deeply compassionate and forgiving, and always wise and razor-sharp. Whether McCord is writing about getting on a plane in the middle of the night as a child to go to Nepal or about driving over curbs after a run to the grocery store, talking to her children or mother or sister, or packing up the house to take her family and the dog on vacation in Maine, her voice sings. This memoir is haunting, disturbing, beautiful, and resonant. I could not put it down. —Natalia Rachel Singer, author of Scraping by in the Big Eighties

My CIA: A Memoir

McCord, Katherine

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Roll: A Collection of Personal Narratives

A literary collection will showcasing the art of short memoir with a variety of personal narratives of varying voices and artistic form. Featuring works by the following authors: Debra Baker; Richard Ballon; Diane Hoover Bechtler; Madeleine Beckman; J.D. Blair; Martha Everhart Braniff; Regina Murray Brault; David Breeden; Douglas G. Campbell; Yu-Han Chao; Casey Clabough; Beth Lynn Clegg; Elayne Clift; Alan Cohen; Karen de Balbian Verster; Summer DeNaples; Rebecca T. Dikinson; Christine Donovan; Gina Ferrara; Carmen Anthony Fiore; Sarah Glenn Fortson; Margaret Elysia Garcia; Lewis Gardner; Shelly Clark Geiser; Deni Ann Gereighty; Mac Greene; Susan Grier; Gloria Jean Harris; DaMaris B. Hill; Bradley Earle Hoge; Exsulo Illustro; Raud Kennedy; Jacqueline Kolosov; Kristin Laurel; Catherine Lee; Janine Lehane; Barbara Lewis; Russ Allison Loar; Nancy Lubarsky; Monica S. Macansantos; Deborah L. J. Mackinnon; Terry Martin; W. K. Medlen; Jasminne Mendez; Mariangela Mihai; Ann Mintz; Linda Mussillo; Dave Morrison; Cari Oleskewicz; Abla Poku; Mamie Potter; Cherri Randall; Robert F. Reid-Pharr; Carol J. Rhodes; Zack Rogow; Helen Ruggieri; Nan Rush; Rikki Santer; Judith Serin; W. Clayton Scott; Noelle Sickels; Paul Sohar; Alex Stein; Nancy Skalla; Rick Smith; Dorothy Stone; Barb Tartro; Tamara W.; Eleanor Vincent; Ahrend R. Walters; Gregg Weatherby; Sarah Brown Weitzman; Amber L. West; Beth Winegarner; Kirby Wright; and Nicole R. Zimmerman.

Impact: An Anthology of Short Memoirs

A volume of short memoir chapbooks comprised of compelling narratives. The following authors and titles are featured:  Deep Blue: Poems of a Navy Life Nancy Prothro Arbuthnot My Life in Shoes Pamela L. Laskin The Enigma Gerri Luce Scenes from My Life on Hemlock Street: A Brooklyn Memoir Arlene L. Mandell Learning from Lady Chatterley Gloria Nixon-John My Two Years in Priest Corps Joe Novara Notes from 1970 Claude Clayton Smith

Turns: A Collection of Memoir Chapbooks

A heartfelt collection of narratives of various forms and shapes on grief, loss and remembrance. The following authors and titles are featured: MEGHAN K. BARNES Mad World; MARY CARPENTER Longing; FREDDA DURANDO My Fathers Hands; PAMELA GAY The Family Funeral;KELSEY GILMAN Forgiving Maren; JO GOING Stones and Roses; SUSAN GORDON Stars; NANCY GUSTAFSON Visiting Martha; PATRICIA GUZMAN About a Guy Named J*;KRISTIN HERREN A Letter to My Sister; MARY POTTER KENYON My Winter of Discontent; MICHAL MAHGEREFTEH Things She Left Behind; LINDSEY MEAD Four Corners of the Tent; AMANDA MILLER One Breath, Then Another; PATRICIA ODONNELL Translation; CARL PALMER Her Candle; and CHRISTOPHER WOODS The Light You Made.

So Long: Short Memoirs of Loss and Remembrance

The multiple Pushcart Prize nominated collection of ultra short memoirs, of various shapes and forms, including prose, poetry and narrative photography by both new and award winning authors each telling the stories of our lives in less than 300 words.  Featuring the works of: Nancy Prothro Arbuthnot, Beatriz Badikian-Gartler, Valerie D. Benko, Jean Bonin, Bobbie S. Bryant, Jean Butterfield, Diane Caldwell, Helen Carson, Adam Cheshire, Casey Clabough, Beth Lynn Clegg, Ellen Dworsky, Michael Estabrook, Kathy Gilbert, Carmen Gillespie, Richard Goodman, Bobbie Hayse, Ashley Henley, Jessica Heriot, Meredith Hoffman, Jean Horak, Stephanie C. Horton, William L. Janes, Marilyn June Janson, Jamie Johnson, Carol Kanter, Evelyn Lampart, Gina Marie Lazar, Catherine Lee, Janine Lehane, Gerald A. McBreen, Aileen R. McCready, Leota Mccown-Hoover, Callie Melton, Jasminne Mendez, E. Ethelbert Miller, SueAnn Porter, Diana Raab, Lori Rottenberg, W. Clayton Scott, Don Segal, Judith Serin,Elaine Dugas Shea, Missi Smith, Diane Spodarek, Emily Fraser Voigt, Pavelle Wesser, Changming Yuan and Sally Zakariya

Reverie: Ultra Short Memoirs

Literature & Fiction

Literary

A collection of flash memoirs and personal narratives featuring the works of new and award winning authors showcasing the art of personal narratives. Featuring work by: Michelle Ardillo, Sharine Aupke, Jade Banks, Victoria Brott, Jamie Brunson, Notty Bumbo, Katrenia Busch, Kelley Calvert, Andres Cisneros, Elayne Clift, Kavita Das, C. A. Davis, Jeannette Drake, CarrZa DuBose, Ashley Duran, Judith Ellen, Michael Estabrook, Jane Falla, Pamela Gay, Larry Godwin, Maryann Gremillion, Paul Hadella, Gerald Harris, Dah Helmer, Jennifer Higgins, Shirlee Sky Hoffman, Giuseppe Infante, Jason Irwin, Laura T. Jensen, Anika H. Klix, Vanessa Mallory Kotz, Eric Kreutter, Michelle Legault, Jing Li, Susan Mahan, Jas Mardis, Mari Maxwell, Murli Melwani, Jasmine Mendez, Bonnie J. Morris, Nicole L.V. Mullis, Nancy Nicol, Gloria Nixon-John, Harriet Riley, Kathleen Saville, Judith Serin, Robert M. Shafer, S.F. Siddiqui, Laurence Snydal, Linda Ann Stelljes, Danielle Stonehirsch, Fran Tempel, Dawn Marie Thompson, Vincent J. Tomeo, Susan White, Carl Whitehead Jr., Crystal Wilkinson, and Changming Yuan

Reflections: Ultra Short Personal Narratives

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