Writing

Irvina’s writing blends journalism, cultural criticism, and memoir.

Often focusing on lives and stories that have been overlooked. For more than a decade, she has worked with organizations, executives, and physicians to shape stories that connect with audiences, clarify intention, and preserve complex truths.

She is the author of How To: Rewrite Beautiful, a memoir and guided workbook that was later used in schools and treatment programs.

Currently, she is writing Hearsay, a work of narrative nonfiction that reexamines the Manson Family Trial through the intertwined lives of Charles Manson, her father Irving Kanarek—the rocket scientist and Manson's defense attorney—and herself. Drawing from unpublished memoirs, legal archives, and recorded conversations, Hearsay explores how stories shape public truth.

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