Monthly Archives: January 2012
24/01/12 What is a Memoir? (And Why I Wrote One)
Whenever I tell people I’ve written a memoir (not something I do with great regularity–it’s usually my wife who does the telling), I often get the question, “What is a Memoir?” I usually begin my response by saying that it’s an autobiography that isn’t an autobiography, but that only confuses them more. So let’s unpack [...]
Tags: elna baker, glass castle, growing up amish, ira wagler, jeannette walls, memoir, memoirist, memories, mormon, raised by a dead man, what is a memoir, william queen, writing
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23/01/12 Book Review – Under and Alone: The True Story of the Undercover Agent Who Infiltrated America’s Most Violent Outlaw Motorcycle Gang
William Queen’s Under and Alone: The True Story of the Undercover Agent Who Infiltrated America’s Most Violent Outlaw Motorcycle Gang knocked me right out. If you’ve never read a memoir before, you could do a lot worse than to start here. Queen is a former undercover agent with the ATF who had worked many deep [...]
Tags: bikers, book review, hell s angels, memoir, mongols, outlaw motorcycle gang, outlaws, undercover, william queen
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20/01/12 The Goal Age
Today, I turned 35-years-old. I’m so pleased. I’ve always wanted to be 35. Always. The earliest I can remember having the thought was when I was thirteen. Become a teenager was a real tragedy for me. I didn’t want to be belligerent, smelly, rebellious, angry, foolish, awkward, etc. That’s what teenagers are like, I reasoned. [...]
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