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		<copyright>©Jerry Waxler </copyright>
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		<itunes:subtitle>Reading and writing memoirs.</itunes:subtitle>
		<itunes:summary>Record the Stories of Your Life, tips, how-to, memoir book reviews, by Jerry Waxler</itunes:summary>
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		<title>How These Memoir Authors Emerged Into Adulthood</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Nov 2009 14:15:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the following list of memoirs, I show a number of examples of how memoir authors experienced this complex transition from childhood into adulthood. By seeing how this period contained so much dramatic tension for these authors, you may gain some insight into the dramatic tension of your own transition into adulthood.]]></description>
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		<title>Failure to Launch Generates  Dramatic Tension</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Nov 2009 13:18:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Emerging into adulthood is sometimes dubbed "launching," a term that reminds me of a woman in a fur coat smashing a bottle across the bow of a ship being sent to sea on its maiden voyage. My launching did not include getting hit with a bottle of champagne, but I was hit with other substances which contributed to my loss of focus.]]></description>
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		<title>Princeton Student transfers to the School of Hard Knocks or Learning Kung Fu at the Shaolin Temple</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Nov 2009 12:36:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Recently, I saw a memoir "American Shaolin" by Matthew Polly, a young man who dropped out of Princeton to study Kung Fu at the Shaolin Temple in China. I was stunned to learn the place was real and even more astonished that it still existed. At first I resisted reading the book, afraid the real world might ruin my fantasies. Finally curiosity won. I jumped in to "American Shaolin" and kept turning pages to the end.]]></description>
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		<title>Philadelphia Push To Publish, Lessons in Courage from a Writing Conference</title>
		<link>http://memorywritersnetwork.com/blog/philadelphia-courage/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Oct 2009 12:17:52 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Courage to Write]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Funderburg went on to read a passage from her recently published memoir, which I have not yet had an opportunity to read, called "Pig Candy: Taking My Father South, Taking My Father Home: A Memoir." It's about discovering her relationship with her father while he was dying of cancer. The passage was rich in imagery, full of kindness and conveying the same sparkle in her words as danced in her eyes. At the end, I raised my hand and asked, "How did you find your voice?" She hesitated for a moment, and said, "Finding my voice was really a very long journey around a big circle until I finally came back to just being myself."]]></description>
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		<title>Annotated List of Memoirs</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Oct 2009 10:29:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is a list of the memoirs I've read which have provided the insights and experience I write about in the MemoryWritersNetwork essays. They include a variety of styles, life situations, and periods. I have added a brief note with each. This list is in no particular order.]]></description>
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		<title>Memoir interview about privacy, activism, style</title>
		<link>http://memorywritersnetwork.com/blog/memoir-interview-mirriam-goldberg-2/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Oct 2009 11:34:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I hope the book does inspire people to, most of all, learn more about their environment, and from that learning, develop a greater connection with their local land, which will naturally lead to the kind of advocacy and stewardship that creates enduring ecological change. I also hope the book helps people see not just more of the connections between cancer and ecological degradation and destruction, but between healing and finding kinship with the trees, fields, birds, skies and other aspects of our homes around us.]]></description>
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		<title>Memoir author speaks of spirituality, religion, and cancer</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Oct 2009 11:16:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I think it's far more effective to describe the big stuff of life -- spiritual struggles, traumas and wounds, giant yearnings or losses -- by entering through the backdoor. By that, I mean you can convey the depth of what you're writing by aiming toward specific detail and specific moments instead of making pronouncements about what it all means.]]></description>
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		<title>Teaching Memoirs, Meeting Locals, Making Memories</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Oct 2009 11:02:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[All the memoir classes I had taught previously were broken into two hour segments. This workshop would go for eight hours straight, so one challenge would be to tailor the course to this new format. And I worried about my stamina. Would they need to carry me out on a stretcher at the end of the day? Over the next few weeks, I worked out a class schedule that I felt would offer the same value as the individual sessions. And the best way to find out if I could survive an all-day class was to try. My wife and I agreed the Rockies would create a welcome diversion from south eastern Pennsylvania, so we said "Yes. Let's do it."]]></description>
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		<title>10 Ways Writing Helps Develop the New You</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Sep 2009 11:20:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://memorywritersnetwork.com/blog/?p=592</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[And yet, even in these years of social involvement I continue to spend time alone, writing. My words create a sort of social currency, allowing me to share myself in surprising ways. In fact, putting words on paper makes the rest of life richer and more fulfilling. It's not a result I would have expected, but here it is, an exciting discovery, especially in the internet age when we have so many ways to offer our writing to each other. In fact, writing has turned out to be such a valuable self-development tool, I would like to share ten of my observations with you.]]></description>
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		<title>Is memoir a genre? Consider these matched pairs.</title>
		<link>http://memorywritersnetwork.com/blog/memoir-genre/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Sep 2009 11:13:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[After I finished, I noticed a similar book near the top of my reading pile, "Black, White, and Jewish," by Rebecca Walker. Previously, I might have rejected it on the premise that one memoir about mixed-race parents was enough. But now, I was eager to learn more.  "Black, White, and Jewish" turned out to be invigorating, another excellent read, and another window into one of my favorite topics, an individual's search for identity.]]></description>
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