5 Books to Read If You’re Writing a Memoir Pt. 4: A Promise of Salt (2/3)

If you haven’t read the first part of my post on A Promise of Salt, you might want to start here. 3. Use of whitespace A hermit-crab story is one that appropriates an existing form such as a how-to article or a math exam. Brenda Miller and Suzanne Paola write this: [The hermit-crab essay] deals

5 Books to Read If You’re Writing a Memoir Part. 4: A Promise of Salt (1/3)

A Promise of Salt is a book I assign every time I teach Creative Nonfiction. It’s the sort of book that students will remark to me about years after they’ve taken my class. “I loved that book” is the common refrain.