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“That idea of not being exactly who you write as is so crucial. Even looking at those words as I type them, it feels dirty, it feels like I'm admitting something. Unfortunately, I think that's how the conversation around nonfiction is so much of the time - either defensive or accusatory. Aha! You've been caught! But the original essence of something is always lost when it's reproduced.”

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There is something more important than the place being left. It's that swell of crushing emptiness that makes the insignificant seem anything but.

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Lately I've been thinking about the idea that all novels are, at least in some way, about the process of writing a novel - that the construction of the book and the lineage of people constructing novels are always part of the story the author is telling. I think the equivalent for memoir should be that all memoirs are, in…

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For better or worse, I seem to gravitate toward writing about something or someone else, then have my own self shove its way into…

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Walter Benjamin talks about art losing its original "aura" in an age of mechanical reproduction. In writing memoir, we're taking something that happened in…

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I came to nonfiction through journalism. My first book was journalism, and it was so frustrating to me, while I was writing it, that…

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