#Memoir

Watching this Beastie Boys Bonnaroo set is amazingly therapeutic. I miss those guys so much. The death of MCA was the first celebrity death that really got to me. They’re
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What's some writing advice you've received that you'd share?Neil Gaiman has a simple point about conflict: having 2 characters who want opposing things = a story. My high-school English teacher
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Why thoughhttps://twitter.com/TiffanyMidge/status/1197305578072072193 March 2018: “The publisher of Sherman Alexie is postponing the release of the paperback edition of the author's memoir about his mother, You Don't Have to Say You
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Thread with a few thoughts on DOJ's request for a TRO/PI to block publication of Bolton's book....Seems like a rear-guard action at this point, especially given what appears to have
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To celebrate Nigeria's 60th anniversary on the 1st of October, I will be sharing books by 60 Nigerian writers. I will leave out the usual suspects like Soyinka, Achebe, Emecheta
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20 books that helped me, more than years of school or college ever will.A thread... It was 2009 when @vivpahwa gifted me REWORK by @jasonfried @dhh The book changed me.Threw
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Look, Trump is obviously a moron. There was no 1917 pandemic. The influenza pandemic lasted from 1918-1920. And it didn’t end WWII, which ended in 1945. BUT the Great
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"Sick Souls, Healthy Minds" by @JohnKaag is a solid popular introduction to William James. It maps a very accessible course for sick souls looking to foster healthier minds.https://erraticus.co/2020/06/24/john-kaag-sick-souls-heal
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I'm curious about y'alls book preferences. Let me do a thread. Which short stories would you read again, and again? Which debut novel would you rather? Which autobiography slapped harder?
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Dear all, We would like to invite you to #ReadALetter...https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=noE6EMp2Kck It could be a letter to anyone, or anything. It could be a letter you've always wanted to send, or
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it’s time to read another cop memoir bold to open with this picture I think page 1 chapter 1 as a 12 year old he blows himself up, and observes
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OKAY let’s talk about some books by Black authors.https://twitter.com/DailyJulianne/status/1266047149210566658 YOU SHOULD SEE ME IN A CROWN by Leah Johnson is a wonderful romcom about a girl competing to be prom
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As I pack up my books over the next two weeks, I'm gonna highlight some of the weird and/or wonderful gems that I come across--the rectangular slabs of paper that
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Please enjoy this badass family photo of radio reporter Genie Chance coming home from work (Anchorage, Alaska, c. 1963) then click over and pre-order my book. That's it--that's the social
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Writing historical case studies is hard work.It requires carefully "connecting the dots" by combing secondary & primary sources (assuming you can even access them during this time of library &
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#Arnhem76 Day 5. Thursday 21st September 1944.The 5th day and all resistance at the northern end of the Arnhem Road Bridge had ended. 1st Airborne Division have now gone on
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