The art of memoir
Record details
- ISBN: 0062223062
- ISBN: 9780062223067
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Physical Description:
xxiii, 229 pages ; 22 cm
print - Edition: First edition.
- Publisher: New York, NY : Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, [2015]
- Copyright: ©2015
Content descriptions
Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 221-226). |
Formatted Contents Note: | Caveat emptor -- Welcome to my chew toy -- The past's vigor -- The truth contract twixt writer and reader -- Why not to write a memoir : plus a pop quiz to protect the bleeding & box out the rigid -- A voice conjures the human who utters it -- Don't try this at home : the seductive, narcissistic count -- Sacred carnality -- How to choose a detail -- Hucksters, the deluded, and big fat liars -- Interiority and inner enemy : private agonies read deeper than external whammies -- On finding the nature of your talent -- The visionary Maxine Hong Kingston -- Dealing with beloveds (on and off the page) -- On information, facts, and data -- Personal run-ins with fake voices -- On book structure and the order of information -- The road to hell is paved with exaggeration -- Blind spots and false selves -- Truth hunger : the public and private burning of Kathryn Harrison -- Old-school technologies for the stalled novice -- Major reversals in Cherry and Lit -- Why memoirs fail -- An incomplete checklist to stave off dread -- Michael Herr : start in Kansas, end in Oz -- Against vanity : in praise of revision. |
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Subject: | Karr, Mary Karr, Mary Autobiography Authorship Biography as a literary form Autobiography Authorship Biography as a literary form |
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Homer Public Library | 809.935 KAR (Text) | 000132380 | Nonfiction | Available | - |