The Autobiographer’s Handbook ： The 826 Valencia Guide to Writing Your Memoir自传作者手册
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作者： Jennifer Traig 著
出 版 社： 延边人民出版社
出版时间： 2008-9-1字数：版次： 1页数： 242印刷时间： 2008/09/01开本： 32开印次： 1纸张： 胶版纸I S B N ： 9780805087130包装： 平装内容简介
At last—the contemporary masters of memoir have come together to reveal their strategies and impart their advice. This book contains an unprecedented wealth of knowledge in one place.
In The Autobiographers Handbook, you’re invited to a roundtable discussion with today’s most successful memoirists. Let Nick Hornby show you how the banal can be brilliant. Elizabeth Gilbert will teach you to turn pain into prose. Want to beat procrastination? Steve Almond has the answer. Learn about memory triggers (Ishmael Beah: music) and warm-up exercises (Jonathan Ames: internet backgammon). These writers may not always agree (on research: Tobias Wolff, yes, Frank McCourt, no) but whether you’re a blossoming writer or a veteran wordsmith, this book will help anyone who has ever dreamed of putting their story on paper, on writing themselves into existence.
作者简介
Jennifer Traig, a longtime 826 tutor and workshop teacher, is the author of two memoirs—the forthcoming Well Enough Alone and Devil in the Details (2004). She holds a Ph.D. in literature, and her work has appeared in The New York Times, JANE, The Observer (London), and the San Francisco Chronicle.
目录
Introduction
The Brain Trust
Chapter I" Meeting Your Muse
Chapter II: Precursors to the Past
Chapter III: You vs. Page One
Chapter IV" Lines, Curves, and Tangents
Chapter V: Methods for Movement
Chapter VI: Trimming the Fact
Chapter VII: Memories May Differ
Chapter VIII: You Contain Multitudes.
Chapter IX: Getting the Joke
Chapter X: Writing through Pain
Chapter XI: The Facts vs. the Truth
Chapter XII: Lost in the Labyrinth
Chapter XIV: Getting It Out There
Bonus Chapter:
From the Mind, to the Internet, to the Book, to You Conclusion
APPENDIX
A Personal History of the Memoir
History's Strangest Actual Memoirs
Actual Memoir Titles Considered and Rejected
Recommended Reading
Acknowledgements
About the Editor
About 826 National