This book gives a lot of details about the author's writing workshop with his students, examples of their work, and how he advised them to edit and revise their memoirs. It includes a lot of writing prompts and writing exercises that the reader can use as well.

I did not find anything useful in this book. It's too long, too convoluted, and I didn't care about reading the lengthy excerpts from his writing students. I quit reading after page 81. The author just takes forever to get to the point. He went off on this rabbit trail about traditional essays that was excessively boring.

The writing is also crass in some places. There are a lot of vulgar jokes and innuendos, not only in the excerpts from the students but also from the author themselves. It's so out of place for this type of book and served no purpose.