by Saundra Goldman | Nov 17, 2020 | Uncategorized
Steal Like an Artist. That was the title of Austin Kleon’s first book. It’s a reference to Pablo Picasso’s famous advice, “Lesser artists borrow; great artists steal.” During the summer reading course, when we studied memoirs by Black...
by Saundra Goldman | Oct 29, 2020 | Uncategorized
Tell me if this has ever happened to you. You create an intention to commit to daily writing practice or that bigger project that you swore would be your priority. You take off like a jack rabbit for a few weeks or even a few months, but then you start to drift...
by Saundra Goldman | Jul 3, 2020 | Uncategorized
Why read memoirs by Black authors? I received this question from a fellow writer a few days ago. My first reaction was, are you kidding? Then I remembered the wisdom of a dear writing friend: Check yourself, she said. She may not know. The question came from a...
by Saundra Goldman | May 27, 2020 | Uncategorized
I was cleaning my studio a few days ago, tearing flagged pages from old notebooks, and found this note I’d written about Mara Wilson’s memoir, Where Am I Now? “Wilson discovered she had OCD after reading the memoir, Kissing Doorknobs, by Terry Spencer. Spencer’s...
