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Title:
The art of memoir
Author:
Karr, Mary, author.
ISBN:
9780062223067
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Edition:
First edition.
Publication Information:
New York :

Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers,

[2015?]

©2015
Physical Description:
xxiii, 229 pages ; 22 cm
Contents:
Caveat emptor -- Preface: 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 pat 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 fall -- An incomplete checklist to stave off dread -- Michael Herr: start in Kansas, end in Oz -- Against vanity: in praise of revision.
Abstract:
A renowned Syracuse University professor builds on her memoirs and literary anecdotes to outline her personal writing process while identifying the elements of a successful memoir.
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