The Three Toughest Challenges in Writing Compelling Stories from Family History and Other Insights

My ever handsome friend Larry Palmer (on the left) with his niece and younger brother. I’m very proud that his excellent family memoir Scholarship Boy is coming out in May because I saw its beginnings when I served as a teaching assistant at the Kenyon Review Writers Workshop in 2013.

Barbara Krasner from The Whole Megillah recently interviewed me about my new book How to Write Compelling Stories from Family History.I’m happy to share one insight from our conversation here:

TWM: You’ve been...