How Great Writing Prompts Generated the Best Material in My Memoir
In which Laura discusses what makes a great writing prompt.
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My Love Affair with Books
“A book is made from a tree. It is an assemblage of flat, flexible parts (still called “leaves”) imprinted with dark pigmented squiggles. One glance at it and you hear the voice of another person, perhaps someone dead for thousands of years. Across the millennia, the author is speaking, clearly and silently, inside your head,
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My Favorite Podcast Interview so Far
In which Laura enjoys being interviewed.
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Oh My God, I Need a Calendar!
In which Laura makes a symbolic purchase and considers her future.
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The Denouement
In which Laura remembers who she is when she isn’t a book launching machine.
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Why It’s So Important to Write About Objects
In which Laura demonstrates why writing about a purse can reveal far more about grief than writing directly about grief.
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The Story Beneath the Story: Excavating the Real Truth in Memoir
In which Laura explains what it takes to find the real truth.
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My First Foreign Edition
In which Laura gets her first foreign edition of The Burning Light of Two Stars in a most surprising way.
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What My Refrigerator Would Say About Me
In which Laura gets a talking to from her refrigerator.
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A Blessing on the Birth of This Book
In which Laura, the week before her book’s release, finds a prayer she wrote for the its completion years earlier.
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Coming Full Circle
In which Laura kicks off the launch of her new book with a terrific night with her old friend and collaborator, Ellen Bass.
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The Shopping Sherpa
In which Laura recalls the trauma of shopping for her last book tour.
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Growing Empathy by Writing in The Voice of Your Antagonist
In which Laura steps out of the way and gives her mother a voice.
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