I am pondering who we are and want to be in memoir.<\/p>\n
Maybe we have no choice. \u00a0But writing takes time and revision and so, in fact, we always do.<\/p>\n
Reading Joan Didion\u2019s BLUE NIGHTS made me sad: \u00a0for her daughter, for sure, but also for Didion herself, who has not entered old age with resilience or any care for wisdom. She\u2019s frail, she tells us again and again. \u00a0But she\u2019s also Joan Didion and a killer writer still, though she claims not and relies more than may be wise on the repetition of key phrases. \u00a0All through the book \u2014 a book about her daughter\u2019s death \u2014 you keep wondering, what happened? \u00a0What several things (for there seem to be several things) went wrong? \u00a0It\u2019s not that kind of memoir. \u00a0Didion will not go there.<\/p>\n
Francisco Goldman\u2019s SAY HER NAME, which I thought wonderful and gripping, sent me on this memoir binge.<\/p>\n
As well, of course, as my own writing. \u00a0I am processing. \u00a0I\u2019ll say more. \u00a0Recent ones I\u2019m missing?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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