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Comments

brian

great post. It's funny how the pendulum swings, for sure. I like the attitude of taking postive memoirists and holding them up, rather than beating on all the pseudo-memoirists like a dead horse.

Jozef Imrich

As usual, I enjoyed your thought-provoking post Chip ...

CODA: It used to be said that everyone had a novel in them. Just now, though, you would probably be obliged to doubt the basic proposition: what everyone has in them these days is not a novel but a memoir.
-Martin Amis in his autobiography, Experience

I write fiction and I'm told it's autobiography, I write autobiography and I'm told it's fiction, so since I'm so dim and they're so smart, let them decide what it is or it isn't.
-Philip Roth

The book publishing industry is like no other industry. If you want to be a lawyer, you go to law school; if you want to be a doctor, you go to med school. There is no equivalent to these in book publishing or film-making. The only constant is this: everyone finds their own way in ...

Kate Braverman knows well why so many people blog or why they write memoirs:

"Writing is like crime. The page is about what you can get away with. We break and enter, transgress, autopsy the living and dead, rob, exchange identities, lie, confess, steal. The arts of writing and successful crime are the same. Opportunity. Robbery. Seizure. Con. Misdirection. Theft. Fiction is a form of fraud, the most elegant, exquisite and complicated forms of creative fraud."

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