“Show, don’t tell” is a mantra of narrative writers everywhere, but even the most useful adage can lose meaning with repetition. Before a lunchtime audience of writers at the Second Annual Compleat Biographer Conference on Saturday, legendary biographer Robert Caro reinvigorated the concept.
How did he do it? With a vivid evocation of the way that [...]
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The power of place: Robert Caro on setting at the 2011 BIO Conference
May 24, 2011 – 1:46 pm
Robert Caro, Stacy Schiff, Diane Ackerman and more: narrative conferences and workshops in 2011
January 20, 2011 – 11:53 am
Was one of your resolutions in 2011 to become a better storyteller? If so, here are a few conferences and workshops slated for the coming months that can probably teach you a thing or two. These sessions range from one-day conferences to week-long writing intensives, and none of them are free (they range from less [...]
Mary Karr on truth: “the least of my problems as a memoirist, as a writer, is getting my facts right”
July 28, 2010 – 3:23 pm
Author Mary Karr showed up Friday in Grapevine, Texas, in the middle of a thunderstorm to talk about telling the truth. The first keynote speaker at the Mayborn Literary Nonfiction Conference, Karr addressed an after-dinner crowd of hundreds. Best known for “The Liars’ Club,” “Cherry” and “Lit,” she is also a Pushcart Prize-winning poet and [...]
