The memoir-writing workshop I’ll be leading at the 2014 Northwestern Summer Writers’ Conference.

A documentary about Roger Ebert called “Life Itself” opens nationwide tomorrow, July4. I just heard the filmmaker interviewed on Fresh Air, and it sure sounds to me like Roger Ebert would give his documentary a thumbs up. Here’s a post I wrote a few years ago, when his memoir by the same name was published.

A short story writer asks me for “expert” advice on his lead character, who is blind.

A writer in one of the memoir classes I lead will be on stage reading a piece at Goodman Theatre in Chicago.

Sharon Kramer is a new writer in the memoir-writing class I lead at the Chicago Cultural Center. I’d intended on using an excerpt from her “One Thing I Didn’t Like About My Mother” essay in my last blog post, but soon realized that to really get the gist, you have to read this wonderful essay […]