Richard Kelly Kemick

Jul 15, 2024 | memoirland.substack.com | Richard Kelly Kemick |Jonny Diamond |Asha Dore |Andrea Skinner

Welcome to Memoir Land—a newsletter edited by , now featuring four verticals:Memoir Monday, a weekly curation of the best personal essays from around the web brought to you by Narratively, The Rumpus,  Granta, Guernica, Oldster Magazine, Literary Hub, Orion Magazine, The Walrus, and Electric Literature. Below is this week’s curation. First Person Singular, featuring original personal essays. Recently I reprinted “A Numbers Game” by .

Jun 24, 2024 | memoirland.substack.com | Jeneé Skinner |Richard Kelly Kemick |Lynne Tillman |Kathleen Alcott

Welcome to Memoir Land—a newsletter edited by , now featuring four verticals:Memoir Monday, a weekly curation of the best personal essays from around the web brought to you by Narratively, The Rumpus,  Granta, Guernica, Oldster Magazine, Literary Hub, Orion Magazine, The Walrus, and Electric Literature. Below is this week’s curation. First Person Singular, featuring original personal essays. Recently I published “Smoke,” by . The Lit Lab, featuring interviews and essays on craft and publishing.

Jun 20, 2024 | thewalrus.ca | Richard Kelly Kemick

There are numerous drafts. Some parts are written in pencil, some in pen, some on a typewriter, and some on a computer. Several pages were printed on old-timey paper attached to each other along a perforated edge, unfurling like a scroll, and some were saved on a 3.5-inch floppy that can now be retrieved only as a file of randomized numbers, like code in the Matrix.

May 31, 2024 | kirkusreviews.com | Richard Kelly Kemick |Miranda July

This tender, strange treatise on getting out from the “prefab structures” of a conventional life is quintessentially July. A woman set to embark on a cross-country road trip instead drives to a nearby motel and becomes obsessed with a local man. According to Harris, the husband of the narrator of July’s novel, everyone in life is either a Parker or a Driver.

Dec 11, 2023 | memoirland.substack.com | Ginny Hogan |Christian Wiman |Richard Kelly Kemick |Samantha Hunt

Welcome to Memoir Land—a newsletter edited by , now featuring three verticals:Memoir Monday, a weekly curation of the best personal essays from around the web brought to you by Narratively, The Rumpus,  Granta, Guernica, Oldster Magazine, Literary Hub, Orion Magazine, The Walrus, and Electric Literature. Below is this week’s curation. First Person Singular, featuring original personal essays. Recently I published “Call Me Mom Again” by . A new essay is coming soon.