Memoir as An American Art Form
MAY 19, 2009 TUESDAY AT 3PM CT

 
 
Natalie Goldberg has taught hundreds of Americans to write memoir. She says that there is something about memoir that makes it a particularly American genre. We are impatient. We want it now. We want to break open the old structures of memory and make them new and fresh again.

Guest
  • Natalie Goldberg, author of Old Friend from Far Away: The Practice of Writing Memoir
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