On Memoir

Many people say that memoir is concerned with elaborations of self awareness or personal irony. But to say this is to misunderstand the literary transcendence of the genre, for memoir should not be about its writer but its readers. This is why there are so few real literary memoirs.

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Author: stevekuusisto

Poet, Essayist, Blogger, Journalist, Memoirist, Disability Rights Advocate, Public Speaker, Professor, Syracuse University

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