The Carolina Book and Writer Conference has a video clip up now of my memoir presentation "Disremembering and Then Remembering Your Life" at their recent conference.
Human memory awakens and extinguishes at will.
This quote offers a good launching pad for why memoir wiriting is so educational and also so transformative. You can start writing a memoir and stop for a year, blocked by what you will have to reveal. Or you can stop as at a wall because you think you have forgotten. Well, of course,...
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New in 2022 – Poetry and Nonfiction
Beyond Particle Pinata Poems new books by Margaret Harrell (so far) in 2022 - a "galloping" year - are listed below:
New Poems - Patching Me Together - Cover Design: Grant Goodwine
Following the critical success of Particle Pinata Poems, Harrell's new release doesn't disappoint. It more than delivers. "Margaret Ann Harrell stands in direct lineage with the poet prophets of old while simultaneously being a modern cutting edge experimental poet. She steps off the edge and into the unknown. In ...
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HARDCOVER Keep THIS Quiet Too! – finally
Keep THIS Quiet Too!
is one of my favorite books by me. Readers often tell me how much they like it. Yet it's not nearly so well known as Keep This Quiet! The human story in it is complex, about four writers' lives as they intermix with each other. Three very intelligent, fabulous males in all their complexity, spread across a continent and a globe, that I, in my "hub" in Morocco or leaving once a year for a month in the United States kept exciting ties with.
Just landed on New York City ...
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Allen Joseph Miner
Al has just transitioned. If you want to be truly inspired, go to the Lama Sing Library of Consciousness and listen to the In Memorial video. Al doesn't just hope he'll survive. He has proof in having left the Earth 10,000-plus times as Lama Sing came into his body to give the readings over 45 years - in the trance-channel manner of Edgar Cayce.
His wife, Susan Miner, is pulling back the curtain on aspects of his teaching and life that she observed at his side these last decades. To do this, ...
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“Bold and searching” – BookLife “Gets” and Loves “Particle Pinata Poems”
IN PREMIUM COLOR: BookLife writes:
Harrell’s bold and searching collection takes readers on an odyssey of inquiry, with the first and foremost question being 'How to establish that / Yes, I am / One with God and God is / One with You.' But rather than provide an answer, Harrell’s poems seek to use the question as a gateway into a thought-space where the act of seeking knowledge results in spiritual transcendence. In a note, Harrell describes her spirituality as a conscious, living thing shaped ...
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A Palimpsest of Thanks
—Behind The Hell’s Angels Letters
11, 12, 13
Palimpsest
Time with his old face
Death with his skull face
God with his No Face
Under my own face
—Milton Klonsky
What did William Blake have to do with The Hell's Angels Letters book?
More than you might think. In my mind his artwork was the artbook I didn't work on in 1971 or so. This was the artbook I did. It all went back to that.
But let's take the story slowly.
1994. It was an unlikely event ...
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FINAL YOUTUBE LINKS – July 16-18 – The Hell’s Angels Letters LAUNCH & FESTIVAL
The hard cover of The Hell's Angels Letters: Hunter S. Thompson, Margaret Harrell and the Making of an American Classic now joins the high-end paperback and e-book, ready to order at Norfolk Press.
Below are the updated, final (corrected) public links to all the Launch events July 16-18. The San Francisco Launch turned into a FESTIVAL.
Margaret A. Harrell Interview by David Streitfeld
Panel with Peter Richardson, William McKeen, Dr. Rory Patrick Feehan and David Streitfeld
The State ...
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My Escape! Nicole Flemming – Afghanistan inside look
On Amazon , this incredible book will take you inside what it's like to be a female child in the rural areas of this country. And what awaits the females there as Western troops leave, with most of us not really aware what that means. Read Nicole's uplifting account. She lived it. Horrifically but inspiringly, she opts to come out on the positive side. I had the honor to edit it, so I know every word, every shock, every choice to be happy regardless, is accurate.
A bru...
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AMFM Magazine Interview: “The ‘Hell’s Angels’ Letters”
INTERVIEW
AMFM Magazine: The Voice of the Artist
Margaret, the new book is published, THE HELL’S ANGELS LETTERS: HUNTER S. THOMPSON, MARGARET HARRELL AND THE MAKING OF AN AMERICAN CLASSIC. Grant Goodwine, a protégé of Ralph Steadman, did the cover artwork. Could you tell us about this? How did the whole project come about?
Margaret Harrell: It was a series of coincidences—or unlikely events—from start to finish, beginning with the existence of the letters themselve...
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Editing Services
Get the same quality editing as Hunter S. Thompson in Hell’s Angels.
Hunter often said [Margaret] was the best editor he ever worked with and they were close friends—William McKeen, author of Outlaw Journalist
I have been an editor for decades. I get very absorbed in it. Each work is personal and receives my undivided attention. In my days at Random House I copyedited or was assistant editor on some New York Times best sellers; some were reviewed on the front cover of the Times Su...
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