Dani Shapiro

4 weeks ago | newyorker.com | Sarah Moss |Dani Shapiro |Maggie Smith |Miranda July

As an actress, Amanda Seyfried regularly inhabits the lives of others, real and imagined. As a reader, too, Seyfried gravitates toward works in which writers take readers “deep inside of their lives, for better, or for worse.” She recently spoke with us about a few titles that raise questions about what it means to be a good daughter, wife, and mother—and that have made her feel less alone. Her comments have been edited and condensed.

1 month ago | es-us.noticias.yahoo.com | Dani Shapiro

En una fría tarde del pasado mes de febrero, estaba en el patio trasero de mi casa de Connecticut, delante de una hoguera. En un muro de piedra junto a la hoguera, había apilado una pila de diarios y agendas. Algunos eran libros forrados de tela que me habían acompañado desde la escuela primaria hasta la universidad. Un par de ellos tenían cerraduras endebles, sus diminutas llaves inútiles abandonadas en cajones de trastos viejos.

1 month ago | businessandamerica.com | Dani Shapiro

The person in these pages was young, willful, sometimes petty and painfully sure of herself. And to accept her — my — flaws felt a little like an act of resistance to the pressure I’m well acquainted with as a woman not to have any flaws at all. I love a good published diary. I keep Virginia Woolf’s “A Writer’s Diary” and Anne Truitt’s “Turn” and “Daybook” on my desk and reach for them when in need of wise counsel. Reading about their inner lives helps me to make sense of my own.

1 month ago | nytimes.com | Dani Shapiro

On a cold afternoon last February, I stood in my backyard in Connecticut in front of a fire pit. On a stone wall beside the blaze, I had stacked a pile of journals and diaries. Some were cloth-covered books that had accompanied me from grade school through college. A couple of them had flimsy locks, their tiny useless keys abandoned in junk drawers past.

2 months ago | cloverstroud.substack.com | Dani Shapiro

Series 2 of Tiny Acts of Bravery is available to you, my lovely Substack community, exclusively on this platform, for paid subscribers. I had been wanting to talk to for some time, for many reasons, but in part because she, like me, is a serial memoirist. She has written four, beautiful, expansive memoirs - Slow Motion, Devotion, Hourglass and Inheritance - in addition to her prize winning novels. I spoke to her from her home in Connecticut, and our conversation was everything I hoped it would be.