Mary Karr Quotes About Memoir
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Memoir is not an act of history but an act of memory, which is innately corrupt.
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The failures of other genres to provide an emotional connection with some of their characters and narratives gives memoir a toehold.
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Gary Shteyngart has written a memoir for the ages. I spat laughter on the first page and closed the last with wet eyes. Un-put-down-able in the day and a half I spent reading it, Little Failure is a window into immigrant agony and ambition, Jewish angst, and anybody's desperate need for a tribe. Readers who've fallen for Shteyngart's antics on the page will relish the trademark humor. But here it's laden and leavened with a deep, consequential, psychological journey. Brave and unflinching, Little Failure is his best book to date
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I get about five memoirs per week in my mailbox, and few of them inspire anything but a desire to pick up the channel changer.
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