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Keyshawn Johnson stands, head turned, as he speaks on the phone--photograph taken by paparazzi

Memoir as Weapon: On Keyshawn Johnson’s Just Give Me the Damn Ball!

The Sports Memoir: Choose Your Own Adventure There’s something inherently cathartic about the process of writing a literary memoir. The events within have occurred too close to the writer’s heart for the writing to be handed over to anybody else—all of the interpretation and re-imagining of events is intimate territory and, for the first drafts,…

image of a red typewriter on a turquoise background, the paper in the typewriter contains only a turquoise heart

Relationship Rescue! Courting Your Long-Lost Writing

First, a confession: I’m lousy at prioritizing fiction writing. I let everything else in my life take precedence. I even let other writing take precedence—articles, book reviews, syllabi, comments on student work, status updates, replies to all. And yet, good things have happened to the fiction I’ve written. I know a lot about fiction and…