Do you like to read memoir?
We read memoir and fiction with different eyes.
Also read Memoir from the House of the Dead by Dostoevsky.
In the latest installment earlier this month, five members of the New York University Veterans Writers Workshop read memoir excerpts, poems and other forms of nonfiction to an audience of veterans and civilians.
William Styron, in his widely read memoir "Darkness Visible" (1990), says that his experience in talk therapy was a damaging waste of time, and that he wishes he had gone straight to the hospital when his depression became severe.
The prose moves as gracefully as any you've read, and feels entirely unforced, but one hasn't read memoir like this before - largely, one assumes, because very few other writers could keep their balance following such looping curves of thought.
I long for a new form, a cross between fiction and memoir, or a new way of reading, where we read fiction with the eyes of memoir and read memoir with the eyes of fiction.
Gosse — now best known for the still widely read memoir he published in 1907, "Father and Son" — already enjoyed a reputation as one of the major literary critics of his day, a feat of considerable self-invention for someone with no university education.
Mr. Carson is having to fend off increasing scrutiny about the veracity of various moments in his celebrated life story, which he has shared over the decades in numerous public statements and in books, including his widely read memoir "Gifted Hands".
This all really happened!!! ("Gifted Hands," revised 2016 edition, page 3) Mr. Carson is having to fend off increasing scrutiny about the veracity of various moments in his celebrated life story, which he has shared over the decades in numerous public statements and in books, including his widely read memoir "Gifted Hands".
By Frank Lesser November 12, 2015 Mr. Carson is having to fend off increasing scrutiny about the veracity of various moments in his celebrated life story, which he has shared over the decades in numerous public statements and in books, including his widely read memoir "Gifted Hands".
