Why Boomers Should Write Memoirs about the 60s
As I search for my story, I return to my curiosity about my parents. All I knew about them was summed up in a couple of clichés about immigrants and the Great Depression, but I knew nothing about their...
View ArticleThe Sixties Had Many Struggles. Here’s One I Missed.
During the 60s, women needed to confront the Man in a very different way than I did. They had to confront him when they asked their fathers what subject they were allowed to major in. They had to...
View ArticleInterview with Editors of 60s Memoir Anthology
It was such a confusing and exhilarating era, a time of my young adulthood, a time of confusion yet opportunity. Everything I'd known and believed before was fractured. and out of the those pieces,...
View ArticleA Book of Short Stories Expands My Memoir Collection
By juxtaposing this variety of perspectives, the editors have created a whole that is greater than the sum of its parts. This anthology is a compelling, satisfying reading experience that sets a high...
View ArticleWriting a Memoir Penetrates the Fog of Memory
As a slow, methodical memoir writer, I find incidents buried under years of forgetting. Like an archeologist, I extricate them from the rubble of details and wonder what value each artifact might...
View ArticleTwo Midlife Memoirs: A Sequel Shows Command of Structure
Jack Kerouac’s book, On the Road, published in 1957, foreshadowed the counterculture of the 1960s and inspired many young men to hit the road and find their truths somewhere other than home. In Any...
View ArticleTwo-Memoir Series about Youth, Midlife, and Responsibility
Within the container of the road trip, Berner is able to ponder the rebelliousness of his youth, and place those youthful impulses within the context of his mid-life crisis. With each passing mile, he...
View ArticleIs your memoir Boomer Lit?
Whatever your experience was in the sixties, whether a soldier, a hippie, a housewife, a mother, a resident of a commune, cult, or clan, you had a personal, unique experience that is trapped in your...
View ArticleHow traveling helped them find themselves
In his memoir, Finding Myself in Borneo, McKee generously offers a front row seat to his adventure in an interesting part of the world. But I want more from a memoir than just exotic sights. I expect...
View ArticleComing of Age in the Shadow of Vietnam
A little girl’s view of Saigon, from inside the home of a top military attache, bursts with insight into the delicate balance that holds civilization together, shows how small actions can create large...
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