The Journal Keeper: A Memoir by Phyllis Theroux

I recently wrote about keeping a journal as some kind of dust bin, but that's not the sort Phyllis Theroux keeps. This book is edited from six years of journals, but even so, her method is to convey finished thoughts and telling anecdotes, and here we do feel as we have the best of the best. Her writing has ranged from essays, often on motherhood, to various sorts of fiction, and here her topic is often writing: how to stay inspired, how to make a living, how to keep going when making a livin...