Posts Tagged ‘memoir’
Truth & beauty vs. paper dolls and cut-out scenery
Posted by: Kirsten Imani Kasai on: September 17, 2011
This morning I finished reading Ann Patchett’s novel Truth and Beauty, a memoir about her friendship with Lucy Grealy. It’s a lovely, tragic story and I would have “closed” the book on my e-reader and enjoyed its lingering aftertaste much more had I not felt so uncomfortable. Dare I say, dirty? How could she do it? I [...]
Fact Is Fiction…TV Reality
Posted by: pageadaywriters on: February 15, 2010
- In: writing
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“My fiction is 82% nonfiction,” says Pam Houston, novelist, essayist and award-winning short story writer. And I’ve heard her say she thinks all fiction is 80% nonfiction AND nonfiction is 80% fiction. Clearly for Houston the line between fiction and nonfiction, such as memoirs and essays, is blurred, if nonexistent. I’m writing a memoir, [...]
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