Not sure if this should really count as one of my reads, since I more skimmed it than read it. But if you’re writing a memoir, this book by Sven Birkerts is worth picking up. He focuses on how to create a story and find a narrative rather than describing a sequence of events. (I’ll blog about this in more detail at The Traveling Writer at some point.)

“In memoir the story all but requires the dramatic ordering that hindsight affords,” he writes.