Even before I published “My Mother’s Lover” (free this month at The Atavist), I had learned that telling people of my mother’s long-hidden WWII lost love that many, many families hold big family secrets, and that such secrets often come out very late in the life of a principal. At a discussion of the story […]
Continue reading →Tonight I’ll be in Brooklyn talking mothers and memoirs with Cris Beam, Clive Thompson, and the editors of The Atavist, which last year published my memoir about my mum, My Mother’s Lover. For those attending, thinking of attending, or curious about the book — a big hit for The Atavist, shooting to #1 among all Kindle […]
Continue reading →World War II inspired intense experimentation human and mechanical. My mother’s affair with a flight surgeon, for instance, was a personal experiment, more or less intentional, that was in turn part of a larger, accidental experiment in which millions of people were uprooted from their daily lives and dropped into intense situations with strangers. Much […]
Continue reading →One of the pleasures of writing My Mother’s Lover, my recent Atavist story about my mother’s reverberant World War II love affair, was discovering how much the enhanced eBook format could add to longform narrative. Knowing the story would come out in both a media-rich iPad/iPhone/iTouch version and simpler Kindle and Nook versions, I wrote […]
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