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In August 1929, American publisher approached Sigmund Freud to write his memoirs. There must have been a long pause as the father of psychology thought over the idea. Finally, Freud ruled out the ...

In the end, my attempts to narrow the term "memoir" results in my understanding of the genre being more, not less, uncertain. The only strong conclusion I can come to is that when I say I have been ...

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A glance at best-seller lists or prominent displays at your local bookstore supports Sven Birkerts’s claim that memoir is the narrative genre of our time. But Birkerts, a senior lecturer at Harvard ...

Three years into writing a memoir, a successful author told me, “Who cares what a 39-year-old divorcée has to say?” Based on that author’s professional experience and past knowledge of the publishing ...

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