Toggle navigation
TWText.com
TWText.com
faq
Contact US
Follow US
#Memoir
rachel syme
rachsyme
every few years I find myself wanting to read a memoir that knocks me over; what’s the best memoir you’ve ever read? the last one I devoured whole was Edna
Read more
Alice in training🌿
AliceFromQueens
I knew this day would come but it's still hard for me.In 2018, I took a call from a woman named Linda Showeratz. She offered me 2k in bitcoin to
Read more
Ian Fraser
Ian_Fraser
what irks me about the hype surrounding Tamsin Calidas's 'I Am An Island': (a) Her failure to name the "remote" island on which it's set. It's actually the un-remote Lismore,
Read more
angel of the supermarket💀
shannonmstirone
I just got all my divorce paperwork in the mail and it came with an post it note from my lawyer “there’s a note from the judge, he thought it
Read more
Joanne Harris
Joannechocolat
Several of you have asked for this. I don't tend to write memoir, but it's interesting, and I'll give it a go. Follow #TenThingsAboutMemoir to collect them all!https://twitter.com/IslaAitken/status/1059482902931668993 1. One
Read more
𝖇𝖗𝖔𝖆𝖟𝖆𝖞
broazay
what's everybody reading right now FWIW: I'm reading Ducks Newburyport, And Then We Came to the End, and a pirated .pdf of The Shock Doctrine. this thread is great, I
Read more
Tyler Wilcox
tywilc
I've started holding my breath! #Homegrown2020 you can hear a little bit of the never-bootlegged "we don't smoke it" over on the NYA times contrarian. was just listening to this
Read more
If Beale Street Could Twerk
camerouninema
Ok I finally finished Doris Payne's memoir and key takeaways:1. None of the news articles nor her doc do her story justice at all, this woman led an incredible life,
Read more
Lily Dunn
Lilydunnwriter
Writing my memoir, I've been reading a lot of creative nonfiction in essay form, and am struck by how much of it comes from the US and how little there
Read more
Katherine May
_katherine_may_
So I've not had much time to do anything in lockdown, but I *have* found it a really useful pause for reflection. I've been busy in my notebook asking: what
Read more
Meg Maker
megmaker
I ardently want the "memoir-with-recipes" form to vanish, especially for women food writers where recipes trivialize by transforming narratives of experience into service journalism. Meanwhile, @cettedrucks adds good points about
Read more
Emily Ogden
ENOgden
What books combine criticism with memoir/fiction/poetry in an interesting way? Ann Marlowe's How to Stop Time: Heroin from A-Z
Read more
Glenn Greenwald
ggreenwald
This is amazing, but not really. There is no more authoritarian species in the wild than US liberals. In every controversy, they side with institutions of authority: they love the
Read more
Owen
tennisnation
First photo: David Foster Wallace on what tennis fans want to know about the champions. 2 and 3: Andre Agassi on winning his first major 4: Pete Sampras on winning
Read more
☆ ☆ ☆
anyasrevenge
Since a lot of people don’t know where to start when it comes to educating yourself, here’s a thread of resources (a lot that are by black authors and some
Read more
Vladimir Hamed-Troyansky
VHTroyansky
I assigned an imaginary memoir in my survey of Islamic history and am, once again, amazed by the creativity of my students. In lieu of a more traditional written assignment,
Read more
‹
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
...
34
35
›