Q&A with The Welches discussion

We often get asked at readings, what is next? what are you working on? Will you do it together? Diana and I would love nothing more than to write another book together, but this one was special. And so the likelihood that we will collaborate on something again so soon is pretty slim. She is toying with fiction, I am starting to circle around a work of non-fiction and we will both be one another's readers, always... for those of you who have read the book, I'd be interested to hear your thoughts on a follow up. We wrote a memoir--and so told that story! So next will be someone else's story... (though my book will have a little bit of me as well, and I bet Diana's will lean on her own experiences too...) Curious to hear what people think about memoirists? Who do you think succeeded in shifting from memoir to fiction or another type of non-fiction? I will have to read Jeanette Walls follow up to The Glass Castle... and then there is the great Mary Karr who has done several memoirs, but truly is a poet (in every sense of the word) Sean Wilsey, one of my faves, did one memoir and then went on to edit McSweeneys and a book of stories about all 50 states. Now, he is working on a book about NASA... I would love to hear about your favorite memoirists, and their follow up books!