Grading creative writing is always an ethical dilemma. But what you brought up about grading personal stories versus the research paper is of course a truly volatile issue in teaching memoir or the personal essay, because there's no pretense that… — Debra Monroe Copy Share Image
Memoirs are going to be problematic sells for a while, though, because even if memoir means "based in memory," right now, in the collective… — Debra Monroe Copy Share Image
I started writing nonfiction because nonfiction is well-suited to subjects that, if you wrote them as fiction, people would say, "I don't believe this.… — Debra Monroe Copy Share Image
Historians will look back on this era and how the Internet changed what we value, what we consider art, the way we think, the… — Debra Monroe Copy Share Image
The advice I give is , "Don't think of your career as a plan or blueprint. Think of it as growing toward the most… — Debra Monroe Copy Share Image
I don't know a lot of writers, even writers who have been on the bestseller list for a few weeks, or writers who have… — Debra Monroe Copy Share Image
Grading creative writing is always an ethical dilemma. But what you brought up about grading personal stories versus the research paper is of course… — Debra Monroe Copy Share Image
I know a few women younger than me who have careers and children, and so the burgeoning career and family happen at the same… — Debra Monroe Copy Share Image
Yet one new trend I do like coming from mainstream publishers right now is memoirs tied to research that explores the narrator's dilemma. — Debra Monroe Copy Share Image
I guess the biggest difference between me and many of today's female graduate students is that a lot of them were raised by mothers… — Debra Monroe Copy Share Image
There's still sexism in the world, so there's still sexism in publishing and in graduate school. But it is different. Now, it's more coded… — Debra Monroe Copy Share Image
