five stars for Handling, soon available in its fourth (and updated) edition

So very grateful to discover (thanks to dear Starla) these words today from Jennifer Louden, a personal growth pioneer, national magazine columnist, TV guest, and teacher.

Thank you, Jennifer Louden, for your thoughts on the books you've lately loved, and for including Handling in the mix.

 

Handling the Truth by Beth Kephart

(Available at Amazon and Powell’s)

Kephart’s writing is swoon worthy and her insights incisive but what makes this a book worth owning is the way she shares her shivers of insights into how to do the tricky work of memoir writing. She puts into words what feels like the most slippery thing I’ve ever tried to do. 5 stars!

 

The fourth edition of Handling, new updated, is due out within days.

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paperback writer (three upcoming releases)

On this day, ahead of a predicted storm, I'm happy to share these three images—snapshots of books living forward.

Handling the Truth: On the Writing of Memoir will be released in a month or so by Avery—its fourth printing—with a newly crafted afterword (featuring some of the newly read memoirs and evolving memoir theories I've had since Handling was first released in August 2013).

Going Over will be released by Chronicle as a paperback in November, following a happy run as a hardback (thank you, kind librarians, teachers, readers).

Small Damages has just been released by Speak (Penguin Random House) in its second edition paperback—slightly different packaging, same story, and much gratitude to those who found and read the book either as a Philomel hardback or a first-edition Speak paperback.

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