Reflections on Creative Nonfiction, Memoir, (Auto)Biography, Life-Writing, and the Essay
31 Jul 2012 at 09:54
Julija Šukys
Creative Nonfiction, Domesticity, Letters, Memory, Mothering, Multiple Sclerosis, Ona Šukienė, Personal Essays, Photographs, Research, Uncategorized, Writing
Today, I return to my manuscripts. I’ve got both an essay and a book that I abandoned unceremoniously some four months ago. I can’t wait to get back to them. But there were good reasons for my break from writing: there was our house in Gozo to pack up, our life to get back in [...]
13 Oct 2010 at 10:29
Julija Šukys
Archives, Autobiography, Biography, Catholicism, Journeys, Life-blood, Lithuania, Mary Gordon, Memoir, Mothering, Multiple Sclerosis
Mary Gordon, The Shadow Man: A Daughter’s Search for her Father (Bloomsbury, 1997 [1996]). I read this book on the recommendation of a colleague who thought it could be useful to my work. She was right: I found that it spoke to me on many levels. I hadn’t expected to have so much in common [...]
06 Apr 2010 at 17:19
Julija Šukys
Autobiography, Biography, Life-writing, Mothering, Multiple Sclerosis, Ona Šimaitė, Tahar Djaout, Writing
My father died very suddenly when I was eighteen years old. Shortly after his funeral, my mother dreamed he came back to life. She couldn’t explain how; he was just back. The weird thing was that the dream seemed largely to be about the bureaucracy of death. My parents sat on the couch for a [...]
