Unveiling Heartbreak and Healing: Brenda Miller Reveals the Secrets Behind Her Powerful New Memoir.
BM: It’s quite an honor and a privilege to be in that position. When Suzanne [Paola] and I talked about writing the very first edition back in 200, there weren’t any textbooks, which was a kind of symptom or sign of the budding nature of creative nonfiction, especially in academic worlds. It wasn’t necessarily a full-fledged area of study yet. But people were hungry for it, right? So there were some anthologies, but no real instructional text. So we just said, let’s just write one and use our teaching notes on what we’ve been doing. I think because we both had such different strengths and perspectives, it just became a pretty comprehensive text at that time. And we had that wonderful anthology. Have you seen the first edition?
