The Best of BookSmack!: Memoir Short Takes: The Nose Knows and Pet Peeves
Apr 15, 2011
I’ve been reading the buzz in the lit-crit world about whether most memoirs should be written or published at all. Apparently, some people don’t like reading about ordinary lives—as if any of them are. Disdain for memoirs where nothing much is uncovered, discovered, or recovered is big, too. People, get a grip! It’s about the stories and, often times, just the way they are told. The original column ran in 2/17/11 BookSmack! Click here to read it.
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| Therese Purcell Nielsen, a librarian in the Adult and Reference Services Department at Huntington P.L., NY, alternates writing the Memoir Short Takes column with Julie Kane |
