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·Sep 18, 2020

There Never Was a Perfect Family

How I researched and wrote a book about my grandfather, Lucille Ball, and the imaginary affair between them — A commotion bangs and shakes down Old Northern Boulevard in Roslyn, New York. Dust lifts — a sedan has rattled up to the red light. Its muffler muffles nothing. You might glimpse the ancient driver leaning to the windshield, squinting. You can smell Old Spice and takeout. Exhaust echoes off…

This Is Us

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There Never Was a Perfect Family
There Never Was a Perfect Family
This Is Us

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Dec 16, 2014

This Is How You Write a Memoir

“I’m not advocating happy endings; I’m advocating well-built stories.” — Not to be too Tale of Two Cities about it, but I find writing a memoir easier than writing fiction, and more difficult. Why is it easier? You don’t have to make stuff up, which is hard work. You don’t have to run your characters/plot/milieu/ending through a stress test that’ll…

How To

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This Is How You Write a Memoir
This Is How You Write a Memoir
How To

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Sep 6, 2013

Smells Like Middle-Aged Spirit

The High School Reunion — “Listen,” the men say, balded by time, or at least fattened up a little: “We’re still young, right?” And the women — many looking kind of broken-in, while the lucky few nod or shrug at the last limits of their prime — the women say: “Yeah, we’re like 12 years…

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