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Jun 29

The Best Ideas Always Come from the Act of Writing”: Interview with author and poet Dan Gilmore

by Allyson Latta DAN GILMORE has published a novel, A Howl for Mayflower (Imago Press, 2006), and two collections of stories and poems,Season Tickets (Pima Press, 2003), and Love Takes a... read more

Jun 18

An Inappropriate Interview with Daniel Nester … aka The Memoirist (Part 2)

by Allyson Latta Read Part 1 of my interview with Daniel. AL: You are very candid in writing about your personal life. Does this come naturally, or is it something you have to dig deep to do?... read more

Jun 09

An Inappropriate (what else?) Interview with Daniel Nester … aka The Memoirist (Part 1)

by Allyson Latta DANIEL NESTER is the author of How to Be Inappropriate, a humorous creative nonfiction collection. Earlier collections, God Save My Queen and God Save My Queen II, explore his obsession with the rock band Queen. His writing appears in Salon.com, The Morning News, McSweeney’s, The Daily Beast,... read more

May 30

Camilla Gibb on The Penguin Book of Memoir

Interview by Allyson Latta Photo by George Whiteside The Penguin Book of Memoir, published in April 2011, is a stirring and varied collection of stories by noted Canadian authors including Wayson Choy, Wayne Johnston, Ian Brown, Michael Ondaatje and Thomas King. "[A]n individual life is virtually... read more

May 28

Writing in My Father’s Voice: Honouring His Wartime Experience (Part 2 of 2)

Guest Post by Barbara Trendos My idea of writing a mock journal turned out to be not so far beyond the realm of possibility. The Canadian YMCA had distributed log books, like the one Johnny kept, to help Canadian PoWs fill time, cope, and record the day-to-day routine of an... read more

May 25

Writing in My Father’s Voice: Honouring His Wartime Experience (Part 1 of 2)

Guest Post by Barbara Trendos It was one night over thirty years ago when Dad first brought out that plain, beat-up file folder. Although I can’t recall what prompted him to do so, I clearly remember sitting on the shag carpet at the foot of his easy chair in front of... read more

The Best Ideas Always Come from the Act of Writing”: Interview with author and poet Dan Gilmore

An Inappropriate Interview with Daniel Nester … aka The Memoirist (Part 2)

An Inappropriate (what else?) Interview with Daniel Nester … aka The Memoirist (Part 1)

Camilla Gibb on The Penguin Book of Memoir

Writing in My Father’s Voice: Honouring His Wartime Experience (Part 2 of 2)

Writing in My Father’s Voice: Honouring His Wartime Experience (Part 1 of 2)

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