Writing memoir is a deeply personal, and consequential, undertaking. As the acclaimed author of five memoirs spanning significant turning points in her life, Beth Kephart has been both blessed and bruised by the genre. In Handling the Truth, she thinks out loud about the form—on how it gets made, on what it means to make it, on the searing language of truth, on the thin line between remembering and /5(). Unlike the other books that focus on broad swathes of memoir writing Kephart digs deep into the writer's moral duty to be truthful even when it reflects poorly on the author. This is something all memoir writers would do well to heed. A memoir that fails to reveal the good, bad and the putrid, will fail a reader's sniff test/5(). 7 rows · · Writing memoir is a deeply personal, and consequential, undertaking. As the acclaimed author of Brand: Penguin Publishing Group.
Beth Kephart is the author of fifteen books, most recently Handling the Truth: On the Writing of Memoir (Gotham, August ). She is a National Book Award finalist, Master Writing Teacher for the national YoungArts program, and frequent contributor to The New York Times Book Review, Washington Post, bltadwin.ru, Chicago Tribune, Philadelphia. Thousands of books are available on the craft of writing, and even more titles crowd the memoir shelf, but Beth Kephart's "Handling the Truth: On the Writing of Memoir" dips a toe in both pools to. In the tradition of Anne Lamott's Bird by Bird, a critically acclaimed National Book Award finalist shares inspiration and practical advice for writing a memoir. Writing memoir is a deeply personal, and consequential, undertaking. As the acclaimed author of five memoirs spanning significant turning points in her life, Beth Kephart has been both blessed and bruised by the genre.
Handling the Truth: On the Writing of Memoir eBook: Kephart, Beth: bltadwin.ru: Kindle Store Select Your Cookie Preferences We use cookies and similar tools to enhance your shopping experience, to provide our services, understand how customers use our services so we can make improvements, and display ads. As the acclaimed author of five memoirs spanning significant turning points in her life, Beth Kephart has been both blessed and bruised by the genre. In Handling the Truth, she thinks out loud about the form - on how it gets made, on what it means to make it, on the searing language of truth, on the thin line between remembering and imagining. Kephart, Beth. Handling the Truth: On the Writing of Memoir. Gotham Bks. Aug. p. ISBN pap. $ COMM National Book Award finalist for A Slant of Sun, one of her several memoirs, Kephart (creative nonfiction, Univ. of Pennsylvania) has composed a gorgeous meditation on memoir. The author has achieved what few do in the crowded field of writing guides: she has created a work of art simply by reflecting on her own art—the writing and teaching of memoir.
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