As a recovering English teacher, I know how the word “research” can effect people. Start talking about research in a college classroom, and it can look like your students have joined the zombie apocalypse. But it doesn’t have to be that way! Now I’m a HipChick

In this video, my favorite memoirist, Sandra Gail Lambert, and I talk about three different kinds of research activities for memoir writers: interviewing people, mining personal documents, and interpreting scholarly sources.