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Janice Erlbaum is an American author. She is the author of two memoirs, GirlBomb: A Halfway Homeless Memoir and Have You Found Her: A Memoir., and one novel, "I, Liar." Her poetry and prose have been featured in anthologies including Aloud: Voices from the Nuyorican Poets Café, The Bust Guide to the New Girl Order, The Best American Erotic Poems From 1800 to the Present, and Verses that Hurt.

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I didn't set out to write a book with no real male characters, but men were not important to my narrator, who was much more interested in maternal and pseudo-maternal love, so they were unimportant to me. I didn't even notice the lack of men in the story until I finished it. But once I did notice it, I was kind of delighted. Apparently, my subconscious is totally sexist.

Book, Kind, Love, Maternal, Real, Writing

Going from memoir to fiction was fantastic. I had been afraid to move away from memoir; I'd written some novel drafts, but they weren't well received by my agent at the time, and it had been drilled into me that "memoir outsells fiction two to one" (not sure if that's true anymore, or if it ever was), so I felt like the only smart thing to do, professionally, was to keep mining my life for painful moments to recapitulate.

Drafts, Moving, Smart, Two, Written

Kerry Cohen's powerful, transfixing story will be familiar to many women, most of whom won't want to admit it. In this heartfelt and authentic memoir, Cohen transcends the pain and shame of a promiscuous past, and leaves readers with a sense of hope and triumph.

Kerry, Pain, Past, Powerful, Triumph

I feel a lot of sympathy for the young women I've written about, including Younger Janice. I think that all of them (me in Girlbomb, Samantha in Have You Found Her, and Elizabeth in I, Liar) had some early family trauma that contributed to their dysfunctional methods of dealing with the world, but I wouldn't call them
myself victims - survivors, maybe, but not victims. Nor do I think of them
myself as con artists.

Artist, Con, Janice, Liars, Thinking, World

Those of us who obsess over every word and action are constantly recalling past events, but that doesn't make them any less painful, nor does it help us transcend them. To write memoir, you have to not only recollect past events, you have to revisit them. You have to get back to the mental and emotional state you were in during those events.

Writing, Past, Emotional, Write, Events, Obsess

I remain an active volunteer in the field of at-risk youth, so I'm pretty familiar with the landscape as it stands now, but I don't have any qualifications or an exhaustive body of research to back up my observations.

Body, Field, Pretty, Research, Risk, Volunteer

Kyria Abrahams, former teen bride of a doomsday cult and seeker of salvation in slam poetry, tells the terribly funny story of her improbable life with candor, wit, and an unsparing eye for the perfect detail. Brilliant.

Bride, Details, Eye, Former, Improbable, Perfect

You read so much about the healing power of memoir, but you don't read about the wounding power it has first. The recollection of past events is not, in and of itself, therapeutic.

Events, Healing, Past, Read, Therapeutic, Wounding

Anybody who severs their own Achilles tendon, takes blood thinners to induce a hospital stay , or beats themselves with their fists hurts themselves as much, if not more, than they benefit from the attention they derive from their actions. Con artists usually benefit from misleading others without sacrificing anything themselves. All my girls have sacrificed plenty.

Achilles, Girl, Hospital, Hurt, Induce, Sacrifice

Chandra Shekhar Azad

Chandra Shekhar Azad

Jonathan Coulton

Jonathan Coulton

Alan Sepinwall

Alan Sepinwall

Michael Dunlop

Michael Dunlop

Mike Holloway

Mike Holloway

Harland Williams

Harland Williams

Howard Carter

Howard Carter

Fred Vargas

Fred Vargas

Reggie Workman

Reggie Workman

Peter Paul Rubens

Peter Paul Rubens

Henry Ward Beecher

Henry Ward Beecher

Queen Seondeok of Silla

Queen Seondeok of Silla