"The Ins and Outs of Memoir" at Studio Around the Corner

 The Ins and Outs of Memoir- Tuesday evenings from July 31^st through August 28^th at 6:30pm. Do you read memoir?  Are you working on a memoir of your own?  Within the past twenty years, memoir has supplanted fiction to become the most popular and diverse genre in American literature.  This memoir reading and discussion group will meet for two hours every week for five weeks.  We’ll discuss a memoir in the first hour, then workshop our own writing in the second.  Discussion will touch on how memoir differs from other forms of life writing, such as biography and personal essay writing, as well as the writers’ strategies of narrative structure and tone. .  A $15 administrative services charge will apply.

THE DIRTY LIFE, Kristin Kimball (2010)

AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF A FACE, Lucy Grealy (1994)

TRUTH AND BEAUTY, Ann Patchett (2005)

OUT OF EGYPT, Andre Aciman (1994)

HURRY DOWN SUNSHINE, Michael Greenberg (2008)

Natalie Axton is a graduate student in the biography program at the City University of New York.  She is a freelance arts writer and has been a fellow with the NEA Arts Institute and the CUNY Writers’ Institute.  She is currently working on a book about her dog.