![]() ![]() Does this apply to knowing, or not knowing, ourselves as well as each other? Have you gotten to know yourself better by writing in general, and/or memoirs specifically? These two quotes, back to back, fascinate me. I never bent to commercial expectations, but I’m doing even less bending now. Painfully aware that there are no easy answers or finally true patina surfaces. ![]() “I’m increasingly inclined toward honesty.” What, if any, impact has this insight had on your writing in general, and this memoir in particular? Alternatively, the truth is so painful that the closest we can come to writing it is by giving ourselves another pronoun. Each piece was written with the hope of getting as close to the truth as possible, and sometimes the truth of us requires us to see ourselves as others might. WIFE | DAUGHTER | SELF is a memoir in essays-a book built of reverbs and recursions, echoes and signifiers. I also managed to sneak in a little second-personing, strange person that I am. Could you talk about why you chose this approach? ![]() One of many interesting things about this memoir is how you wrote some essays in first person, and some in third. ![]()
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