Interviewed by Michèle Dawson Haber Elissa Altman’s hybrid craft/hybrid memoir, Permission: The New Memoirist and the Braveness to Create, is the e book writers new to memoir have been ready for, even when they don’t but comprehend it. Who owns a shared story and when is permission essential are questions that may immobilize any memoirist,…
Interviewed by Michèle Dawson Haber It was a pleasure and an inspiration to speak with debut writer Shannon Luders-Manuel about her memoir, The One Who Loves You: A Memoir of Rising Up Biracial in a Black and White World (Lawrence Hill Books, February 2025). The enjoyment got here from studying how she grew from being…