Jill Talbot
@jilltalbot.bsky.social
Writer, Runner, JackChi Owner, Vintage Postcard Collector, Probably Staring Out a Window. http://jilltalbot.net
Outside my bedroom window this morning. She comes and goes. I named her Patsy Cline, for my late mother’s favorite singer.
I love reading an essay that opens a drawer to memory, but even more, I’m drawn to moments in essays that open a drawer to thought, to thinking.
"Didion’s exercise in returning to her past again and again is a moving commentary less about what we remember than how we remember, and what that mode of remembering reveals about us as individuals and as a community." Maggie McKinley @lithub.com.web.brid.gy lithub.com/on-joan-didi...
On Joan Didion and the Art of Looking Back
In Thomas Wolfe’s posthumously published novel You Can’t Go Home Again (1940), protagonist George Webber finds himself in Germany amid the rise of Nazism in the 1930s and “face to face with somethi…
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The RMP Field Guide to Writing the Lyric Essay, edited by @heidiczerwiec.bsky.social & @artichokeheart.bsky.social, is available for preordering! The book releases in October & is the 5th in our award-winning Field Guide series! Everything you've ever wanted to know about lyric essay! icont.ac/51iZr
Fascinating essay about autobiographical memory by Jonathan Weiner theamericanscholar.org/you-must-rem... @theamscho.bsky.social
You Must Remember This - The American Scholar
On the nature of autobiographical memory
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WOW. WOW. WOW. "Autobiographical narratives are part of a compulsion to resolve the unresolvable, destined to chase what cannot (should not?) be caught." "You know what happened to you, but you do not know what happened to you." —Emily LaBarge, DOG DAYS @transitbooks.bsky.social
Love this brilliant essay by @jilltalbot.bsky.social in this week's Short Reads (@index.short-reads.org.ap.brid.gy).
Short Reads@index.short-reads.org.ap.brid.gy · 2mo agoby Jill Talbot | A body in motion ...
“He started writing to me when I left for college. They arrived every week with a rhythm as steady as his love for me.” @riverteeth.bsky.social riverteethjournal.com/beautiful-th...
Yes, I Tell Him | River Teeth
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Six years ago today! My daughter (graduating this summer with her MS in Geosciences before beginning her PhD studying volcanoes!) graduated high school at the Texas Motor Speedway. Thanks to @longreads.com for publishing my essay about it back then. longreads.com/2021/06/24/r... #grads #graduation
Road Grad - Longreads
Jill Talbot on secret messages between mother and daughter.
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Start your summer #writing on the #road with a virtual 4-week #nonfiction writing class. #writingclass #cnf #literaryessay #memoir jilltalbot.net/register/p/w...
Brevity magazine has launched its 82nd issue of innovative flash nonfiction, featuring essays from Brenda Miller, Angela Edward, Hea-Ream Lee, Karissa Nevada, L.F. Khouri, Ann MacDonald, Emily W. Blacker, Erin Wood, Michael Singleton, Noel Thistle Tague, Sara Daniels, & T.C. Martin. brevitymag.com
Brevity: A Journal of Concise Literary Nonfiction | Brevity: The journal devoted exclusively to the concise literary nonfiction.
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"Nothing is more dangerous for a writer than to be dismissive. To dismiss means to judge, and nothing kills a piece of writing faster than that. Make room, make room! Let the world in all its shades and tones and terrains take you more fully into the human heart. " ~ Lee Martin
"The most seen and supported I feel in my bipolarity is in literature." @gabemontesanti.bsky.social @nervetowrite.bsky.social #bipolar #bipolardisorder www.nervetowrite.com/post/an-inte...
An Interview with Gabe Montesanti
Gabe Montesanti’s Drag Thing: A Memoir of Mania and Mirrors chronicles the author’s emergence into drag culture and her evolution into an unclassifiable, genderfluid “drag thing.”Through experimentati...
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