pit stop 2
Welcome to the Sunday post.
This is the final week that I have the pleasure of facilitating a nonfiction writing workshop with Tin House, and all my creative energies are in use there. The El Camino will be making one last pit stop for snacks, soda, and menthol cigarettes today and will return to the road on Sunday, 2/25.
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The first 2024 Mommy's El Camino FRONT SEAT OFFICE HOUR is this coming Friday, February 23rd at 1pm Pacific. Premium subscribers are welcome to join. We will meet via Zoom for one hour and write/create together, cameras off or on. RSVP by replying to this newsletter.
I compiled a list of some books for my Tin House workshop group and figured there might be other readers interested in such a list.
These are a few books that come to mind when I think of these things: innovative essay collections; conventional memoir; unconventional memoir; profiles of art/artists that reveal the narrator in memoiristic ways; humorous memoir; memoir-in-essays; memoirs written nearly in the moment and narrated as such; the breadth of "creative nonfiction."
My Pin-Up by Hilton Als
Festival Days by Jo Ann Beard
The Man Who Could Move Clouds by Ingrid Rojas Contreras
Love Is an Ex-Country by Randa Jarrar
Minor Feelings by Cathy Park Hong
Brown Neon by Raquel Gutiérrez
Girlhood by Melissa Febos
Know My Name by Chanel Miller
White Magic by Elissa Washuta
Negroland by Margo Jefferson
Constructing a Nervous System by Margo Jefferson
Mean by Myriam Gurba
Creep: Accusations and Confessions by Myriam Gurba
Priestdaddy by Patricia Lockwood
No One Is Talking About This by Patricia Lockwood
In Sensorium: Notes For My People by Tanaïs
Unreliable Narrators: Me, Myself, and I by Aparna Nancharla
This Story Will Change by Elizabeth Crane
Pulling the Chariot of the Sun: A Memoir of a Kidnapping by Shane McCrae
