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more about #susancheever more comments → ihateyourescalade: "...society's assumptions that moms are no fun...and are brainless....Only when we recognize that mothers aren't perfect..." I'd settle for just havi... more » boxspelunker: I had a lot of problems as a teenager. The majority of them were compounded by my mother's nosiness and unwillingness to try to understand. I strugg... more » Chamalla,barren crone: "Americans won't rush in and judge me." Heh. Wanna bet she rethinks that? more » Norton: My favorite part is how Jake, who is a straight-A student, has his father pushing his school to fail him to show him what pot is "doing to him." Jake... more » iloveorange: This post hit home. My father's a beautiful writer and has, for the past 20 years, written "family update" letters to my parent's 100+ Christmas card ... more » lalaland13: Hmm. I've been toying with this sort of thing lately as I gingerly dip a toe into the world of memoir/creative non-fiction. It's so complicated I don'... more » likepenguins: Of course, I should also say: I think it's wrong that Anne Frank's dad published her diary, so, you know. Grain of salt. more » Sunshineyness: I don't think them being dead gives a pass necessarily. Look at Christina Crawford. She waited 'till after Joan died but was STILL crucified for her t... more » sequined: I guess I think it's okay--and in many cases really, really fascinating--to write about your family including its problems, but I might do it anonymou... more » Pantra: As a former teenage drug addict, I would have been livid if my parent wrote a memoir about it. And I say that as a writer. I've always been fuzzy on c... more » LaComtesse: One of two memoirs I've enjoyed was "The Foreskin's Lament." A big plot point there is whether or not the author (who writes extensively and very unfl... more » bowleserised: I remember reading an interview with Marcel or Louis Theroux (I think it was Marcel), and he said his father (Paul) had joked once that as a writer he... more » vintagegoddess: Wow, how fucked up does your relationship with your kids (and your levels of empthy) do you have to be to ignore their pleas for you not to publish th... more » annebreal: Am I the only one who thinks it's ridiculous that she was able to get this thing published? Marijuana addiction? And the family went through this just... more » dummyfakeroller: "Okay son, I'm going to write a book about how your drug use affects my life...What? No, I'm not going to postulate that you may be using drugs to cop... more » -
#familyaffairs
When Is It Okay To Write About Your Family?
Julie Myerson wrote what she thought was an illuminating story of her son Jake's drug addiction, but Jake calls the book "obscene." When is a family member's pain fair game for memoir?
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#madmaddworld
Why They Drank: After Accident, Other Alcoholic Moms Tell Their Stories
Authors Susan Cheever and Rachael Brownell remind us that Diane Schuler, whose wrong-way drunk-driving crash killed her daughter and nieces, wasn't the only mom to suffer from alcohol problems. More » -
#cocktailculture
Writer Susan Cheever Wonders Where All The Drunks Went
Novelist and reformed alcoholic Susan Cheever is sad her friends don't get publicly shitcanned anymore, because now she can't feel superior to them.
