(Note: this is in response to Molly Templeton’s call for submissions for a revised How-To Issue of Times’ Book Review)
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I teach experimental nonfiction at The Loft Literary Center in Minneapolis, and my students often fall into a particular demographic: middle-class, middle-aged women who are longing to share their stories. My fondness for them runs deep. Frequently their longing arrives after years of total silence on the page, self-imposed or otherwise. Many of them are frightened that their stories are not good enough, or that they have no value. Invariably on the first day, as we make our introductions, several women confess that what they are working on is “not very good.”
Interesting thoughts on an essay that I loved on first reading, but …
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I guess I would just prefer that no older white guy give me suggestions on how to write, great or otherwise, in the...
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Interesting thoughts...reading, but …
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