Unveiling Heartbreak and Healing: Brenda Miller Reveals the Secrets Behind Her Powerful New Memoir.
RP: I have it! So retro.
BM: So at some point, we heard through the grapevine that it was out of print. That’s when we decided to do the trade edition, and it was geared more towards anyone, not just students in the classroom. And then the third edition came about because things changed so quickly in the genre. I was using the book in my classes, and I realized oh, we’re missing a lot of stuff here, and a lot of the references are pretty dated. It was fun to put together a proposal for a third edition, and I was able to field test the new material with my students, who taught me a lot and gave me lots of good ideas. So, it feels like the third edition especially is a collaboration with all the creative nonfiction writers and teachers who have come up through the decades with us. It’s just pure joy that it has legs. Even now, there’s so many more textbooks, but it hangs in there as a good one.
