Why Write Memoir? A Conversation about Truth, Exposure, and the Genre People Love to Hate
Sunday, June 5 | 10:00 AM - 11:30 AMHotel Shattuck Plaza
- 2016
- Memoir
- Writing & Publishing
Faith Adiele, Jessica Fechtor, Meredith Maran, Linda Joy Myers, Jasmin Singer
Memoirists face both internal and external pressures when they write and publish their stories. Memoir is both more popular than it’s ever been—and more reviled. In this conversation, four published memoirists unpack the complexities of a genre we’re intrinsically drawn to, and uncover why it’s also so loaded and complex.