Offering lessons learned over twenty years of teaching and writing, Shapiro brings her own revealing insights to weave an indispensable almanac for modern writers. To be disciplined, and at the same time, take risks.” Writers-and anyone with an artistic temperament-will find inspiration and comfort in these pages. It requires the ability to be alone with oneself. “The writer’s life requires courage, patience, empathy, openness. Through a blend of deeply personal stories about what formed her as a writer, tales from other authors, and a searching look at her own creative process, Shapiro offers her gift to writers everywhere: an elegant guide of hard-won wisdom and advice for staying the course. At once a memoir, meditation on the artistic process, and advice on craft, Still Writing is an intimate and eloquent companion to living a creative life. A haunting interrogation of the meaning of kinship and identity, written with stunning intensity and precision-Dani Shapiro's most intimate and compelling work yet.'-Dust jacket.Everything I know about life, I learned from the daily practice of sitting down to write.įrom the best-selling author of Devotion and Slow Motion comes a witty, heartfelt, and practical look at the exhilarating and challenging process of storytelling. Dani Shapiro's memoir unfolds at a breakneck pace-part mystery, part real-time investigation, part rumination on the ineffable combination of memory, history, biology, and experience that makes us who we are. It is a book about the extraordinary moment we live in, a moment in which science and technology have outpaced not only medical ethics but also the capacities of the human heart to contend with the consequences of what we discover.

It is the story of a woman's urgent quest to unlock the story of her own identity, a story that had been scrupulously hidden from her for more than fifty years. Inheritance is a book about secrets-secrets within families, kept out of shame or self-protectiveness secrets we keep from one another in the name of love. In just a few hours of Internet sleuthing, she was able to piece together the story of her conception and, remarkably find a YouTube video of her biological father-his face and mannerisms eerily similar to her own. Over the course of a single day, her entire history-the life she had lived-crumbled beneath her. Summary/Review: 'In the spring of 2016, through a genealogy website to which she had whimsically submitted her DNA, Dani Shapiro received the astonishing news that her beloved deceased father was not her biological father. INHERITANCE: A Memoir of Genealogy, Paternity, and Love

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