Six memoir recommendations by Dinty Moore

I love this idea--pick six memoirs that you think showcase the range of the genre. I'm inspired to create my own list! Stay tuned.

Dinty W. Moore on Memoir: HTML Giant

2011 New Delta Review nonfiction contest

I'm pleased to report that my two entries to the New Delta Review 2011 creative nonfiction contest were chosen as co-winners (blind judging by Eula Biss). Topics ranged from worms and dirt to Frida Kahlo and dead women.

The elusive creature

Tuesday, May 3, I spotted one of the most elusive creatures in these parts of late: a tractor. The incredibly chilly and wet weather has prevented farmers from getting into the fields.

On Monday, while out for a run, I finally noticed it: the silence. Usually spring runs and bike rides--as early as March and most definitely always April--mean sharing the countryside with the planting machines and the friendly farmers within who always are eager to give a wave. While running down the gravel road on Monday, I felt lonely and the missing tractors were the reason.

But clouds and rain gave way yesterday to clear skies and warmer temps. The tractors were in the fields during the day, and even when I came home after sunset there they were, headlights on, trying to make up for lost time.

(Out of nostalgia I chose the Allis Chalmers pic, though unfortunately a sighting of one of these is the rarest of all).

Guess who's writing a memoir (May 4 edition)

Ah, young Levi...

According to Publisher's Marketplace:

20-year-old Levi Johnston's DEER IN THE HEADLIGHTS: My Life in Sarah Palin's Crosshairs, claiming to "tell the truth about my close relationship with the Palins, my sense of Sarah and my perplexing fall from grace -- how I feel and what I've learned," or what the publisher calls a "tale of a misunderstood boy figuring out how to be a man and a father after being thrust into the spotlight and subsequent media circus at a very young and vulnerable age," to Touchstone, for publication in fall 2011.