Adventures in Memory: On Searching for Truth by Writing Fiction

As a fiction writer, I’ve always felt compelled, memoir style, to pore over my life’s timeline. But in a novel, I can erase, revise, smash, crash, reconstruct, and transfigure that squiggly narrative. A novel has no obligation to mirror or represent anything familiar, recognizable, or real. And one of the main rules of play is […] Continue reading at 'Literrary Hub'

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[ The Bookseller | 2019-12-17 04:45:51 UTC ]
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[ The Bookseller | 2019-12-17 01:56:53 UTC ]
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[ New Yorker | 2019-12-15 11:00:00 UTC ]
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[ Book Riot | 2019-12-12 11:32:03 UTC ]
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[ The Bookseller | 2019-12-12 05:50:11 UTC ]
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[ Literrary Hub | 2019-12-11 17:00:27 UTC ]
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[ The Millions | 2019-12-10 19:30:59 UTC ]
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[ The Bookseller | 2019-12-09 14:56:23 UTC ]
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[ The Bookseller | 2019-12-08 20:24:37 UTC ]
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