What does it take to write an honest memoir? Melanie Brooks’ Writing Hard Stories: Celebrated Memoirists Who Shaped Art from Trauma (Beacon Press) describes more than a dozen celebrated authors’ treks through dark memories and breakthrough moments. Join Brooks and two of the writers profiled in Writing Hard Stories—Edwidge Danticat and Richard Blanco—for an honest discussion of what it takes to transform personal pain into prose.

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