Contents
Preface
This Writing Life Now Is What I’ve Lived For: An Introduction
1. From Autobiography to Memoir
2. Discovering a New Literary Form
3. The Past Is Never Over
4. The Voice of Childhood
5. Myth-Making in Memoir
6. The Writer as Archeologist
7. Sudden Memoir (1)
8. Sudden Memoir (2)
9. What Is Telling the Truth?
10. Which Life Am I Supposed to Live?
11. Memoir and the Inauthentic
12. Two Selves Authenticated
13. The Trouble with Narrative
14. The World the Self Inherits
15. A Memoir Culture
Notes
Memoirs
Works Cited
