LeliaMay 21, 20227 minGibbons, Gornick, Hardy, Bauby and Living Your Great StoryGreat Story Coaching* outlines the 3 ways we tend to narrate our lives to ourselves. The victim story (similar to Parul Sehgal’s “trauma...
LeliaApr 30, 20227 minEdmund White, Memoir & Astro ReadingAbout halfway through reading My Lives by Edmund White, I expected to give it a two-star rating. White spends so much time narrating his...
LeliaApr 19, 20221 minPenelope Fitzgerald & the Exponentially PossibleBarbara Pym wasn’t a Penelope Fitzgerald fan. In a letter to Phillip Larkin, Pym writes, “I read Penelope Fitzgerld’s The Book Shop,...
LeliaApr 2, 20224 minMegan Marshall and the Art of BiographyAs a biographer Megan Marshall plays very close to the vest. She doles out her subject in single words or phrases, holds stories out of...