The six-minute memoir Fifty-five short essays on life
Book - 2022
"Essays that Stefaniak wrote over the course of twenty years for the Iowa Source magazine. The book is called The Six-Minute Memoir because she read many of the essays as six-minute commentaries on Iowa Public Radio. The manuscript also encourages readers to try writing six-minute memoirs of their own, with guided prompts at the end. Readers will find themselves laughing out loud as Mary Helen learns to scuba dive, tries to communicate in Mandarin, and describes a peppermint flying out of her husband's mouth. These essays are full of stress-relieving hilarity and joy, as well as Stefaniak's warm insights into life and family. The Six-Minute Memoir is for readers of Bailey White and Claire Dederer, Nora Ephron and E. B. White&...quot;--
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- Genres
- Autobiographies
Essays - Published
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Iowa City :
University of Iowa Press
[2022]
- Language
- English
- Main Author
- Physical Description
- 266 pages ; 22 cm
- ISBN
- 9781609388515
- A Note to Readers about What You'll Find in This Book
- A Sampler
- Aquila Non Capit Muscas: Puttin' on the Drake
- Positively 4th Street: Where Mothers Rule
- Great Aunts: From the Family Tree, Georgia Branch
- Cardiac Dreams: In the Heart of the Heart of the Country
- The Old Neighborhood
- King of Scrounge: Intimations of Immortality
- Hornet Wars: My Father Strikes Back
- Paradise Lost: Half a Lesson from Uncle Bud
- Old Country, New Country
- What's in a Name: The Ellis Eggs
- Photo Opportunities: Memory Takes a Better Picture
- Now There Is a Miracle, and Don't Matter What
- Theories of the Self
- The Right Clothes: Finding Yourself in the Fitting Room
- Are We Really Worth It? On Coloring One's Hair
- Take Me Out to the Ball Game: I Don't Care If I Ever Get Back. Really I Don't.
- Exercising Options
- The Porridge Club: "First We Swim. Then We Eat."
- In It for the Long Haul: A Bicycle Meant for Me
- Night Swimming: When the First Shall Be Last, or Vice Versa
- Outside the Comfort Zone
- What Did I Say? Fear and Babbling in the Speaker's Corner
- Where the Girls (and Boys) Are: Just Call Me Coach
- Scuba: Do? (or Don't)
- True Perils of Parenting
- The End of the World as We Know It: Little Girl Lost
- Mother and Child Reunion: What I Did on My Summer Vacation
- Sitting in the Lonely Seat on the Long Way Home
- On Baby Watch: Waiting to Take the Plunge
- In a Class by Itself
- Who Cares, Anyway? Diary of a School Age Romantic
- Role Models
- Infrequent Flier: Airborne in the Dairy Section
- Remembering Ellen: The Porridge Club Never Forgets
- Saturdays with Sarah: What We Learned from Our Friend
- From the Locker Room: Living Your Life in Technicolor
- Travels
- I Love New York: A Cornhusking, Cheese-Headed Hawkeye Bites the Big Apple
- Tales of a Happy Traveler: From the Chunnel to Sunny Florida
- I See London, I See France: On Missing Our Date with the Dues de Joyeuse
- If It's Tuesday, This Must be Hong Kong
- Critters
- Philosopher Cat for Sale: The World According to Miz Franklin
- Squeaky Bites the Dust: Legacy of a Yorkshire Terrier
- Ducklings on Dodge and Other Rescues
- On Squirrels: A Not-So-Lyrical Essay
- Big Ideas
- David the Deconstructionist: Signs, Snorts, and Supercats
- Unnatural Selection: Regrets of a Spider Killer
- Against Multitasking: Why a Day's Work Is Never Done
- Here Comes the Sun! Time for a Little Order and Beauty
- On Location: Iowa
- Once Upon Linn Street: The Burg and I
- Driving Iowa: Where the Hills Are Alive
- In My Own Backyard: All the Little Dinosaurs
- Booking It
- Booking It, or Bon Voyage!
- I'm Nobody! Who Are You?
- Giants or Windmills? They Might Be Both
- Hysterical Preservation
- I. How to Bite Off More Than You Knew You Could Chew
- II. Foundations 101 or Surprise, Surprise
- III. Interior Demolition
- IV. Boards and Circuses
- V. Which Does Not Contradict What Is Known
- My Brain Event
- I. Let's Make a Deal!
- II. Dire Straits (and Rolling Stones)
- III. The Final Episode
- Writing Prompts: Write Your Own Six-Minute Memoirs
- Acknowledgments
- Bibliography