Larson doesn't shy away from naming the difficulties memoir writers face.
Here, with The New Yorker's Ben Greenman, Saunders discusses his piece, the difficulties of memoir, and the thrill of language.
Last year, the publication of his memoirs caused him difficulty when he acknowledged that the book's statement that he witnessed the surrender of Hermann Goring on a remote road in southern Germany in 1945 was untrue.
In the online creative-nonfiction magazine Vela (a small publication that features work by female writers, but calls that fact "almost, almost incidental" to the writing they publish), Lauren Quinn writes a smart and very personal essay about fads in addiction memoirs and the difficulty of trying to write about her own addiction.
E-mail address GO SIGN UP Share Tweet In the online creative-nonfiction magazine Vela (a small publication that features work by female writers, but calls that fact "almost, almost incidental" to the writing they publish), Lauren Quinn writes a smart and very personal essay about fads in addiction memoirs and the difficulty of trying to write about her own addiction.
These memoir pieces circle around ancient difficulties, and refuse to move on.
Mr. Jennings, who died in 1874 at age 75, did not discuss his personal difficulties in his memoir, but Ms. Taylor and others say he encountered many hardships.
It was a critical and commercial disaster, grossing less than $5,000 at the box office, and Phillips turned to penning her scathing memoir to escape her financial difficulties.
The story of Ms. Cleaver's memoir not only underscores the difficulty of writing about a life spent literally under the gun.
In his 1908 memoir, Barrington wrote of some difficulty in getting along with his co-star, Ilka Pálmay, who was cast in the role of Julia.
