Sentence examples similar to class memoir from inspiring English sources
The book was highly popular and can be said to have spawned a genre of gritty, working-class memoir.
Certainly, in every working-class memoir one reads — in Harold Evans's, in Keith Waterhouse's — the period is described as a long history of endurance met by a sudden explosion of ambition.
She began examining that question through her book in 2001, and things began to fall into place when she took a class in memoir writing.
"A Mountain of Crumbs" (which takes its title from a game Gorokhova's grandmother invented during a famine in the 1920s) could be taught as a master class in memoir writing: the key is not to collect facts and recollections but to truthfully reimagine one's life.
I'll teach a class on memoir".
This is a pity, as Lodge's professional take on the subject of the middle-class literary memoir – as opposed to its distinguished forebear, the upper-class literary memoir – would be interesting to hear, for the differences that separate the two are as much a question of form as content.
Even here in the stylised world of the middle-class literary memoir, though, there are distinctions to be drawn.
Tovah taught a memoir class at the J.C.C. Mostly grandmothers spilling family matzoh-ball secrets, she'd said, or retired men composing disturbingly dry accounts of affairs with their best friends' wives.
It happened recently in Joan Potter's memoir class at the Hudson Valley Writers' Center in Sleepy Hollow.
Then came memoir classes, followed by writing for children and narrative nonfiction, a hybrid.
