“We Are Always Revising Our Stories — and Ourselves”: A Conversation with Maya Shanbhag Lang

GIVEN THE LONG TRADITION of memoirs written by men of a certain age and stature looking back on their life and accomplishments, the surge in memoirs by women in recent years has been quite a breakthrough. What We Carry, the new memoir by Maya Shanbhag Lang, is nothing short of radical, not just because she’s […] The post “We Are Always Revising Our Stories — and Ourselves”: A Conversation with Maya Shanbhag Lang appeared first on Los Angeles Review of Books. Continue reading at 'Los Angeles Review of Books'

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