2014 Taos Summer Writer's Conference
The Memoir
Greg Martin
- “The Situation & the
Story” by Vivian Gornick. This is the title essay from her book (with the
same title) on the craft of memoir.
- “Reflection
& Retrospection” by Philip Lopate
- “Working & Reworking”
Stephen Koch, from THE MODERN LIBRARY WRITER’S WORKSHOP (a fantastic book on
craft, which I would assign also, but I don’t want to come across (right away,
anyway) as a masochist.
- "Linear Design" Madison
Smartt Bell
- "Modular Design" Madison
Smartt Bell
- "Dysfunctional Narratives" Charles Baxter
- "Incremental Perturbation" John Barth
- "The End of the Novel of Love" Vivian Gornick
- "What Stories Teach their Writers: The Purpose & Practice of Revision" Jane Smiley
- "The Eleventh Draft" Chris Offutt
- "Writing Personal Essays: Turning Oneself into a Character" Philip Lopate
- "The Right to Write" Roxanna Robinson
- "Breaking the Conventions of Memoir" Gregory Martin
- "A Memoir is a Reckoning" Gregory Martin
- "The Treadmill Journal" Gregory Martin