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• ISBN: 0062223070
• ISBN: 9780062223074
• ISBN: 9780062223067
• Physical Description: xxiii, 229 pages ; 21 cm
• Edition: 1st Harper Perennial edition
• Publisher: New York, N.Y. : Harper Perennial, 2016.
• Copyright: ©2015.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 221-227).

Formatted Contents Note:

1 Past's Vigor 1 -- 2 Truth Contract Twixt Writer and Reader 9 -- 3 Why Not to Write a Memoir: Plus a Pop Quiz to Protect the Bleeding & Box Out the Rigid 27 -- 4 A Voice Conjures the Human Who Utters It 35 -- 5 Don't Try This at Home: The Seductive, Narcissistic Count 55 -- 6 Sacred Carnality 71 -- 7 How to Choose a Detail 79 -- 8 Hucksters, the Deluded, and Big Fat Liars 81 -- 9 Interiority and Inner Enemy-Private Agonies Read Deeper Than External Whammies 91 -- 10 On Finding the Nature of Your Talent 101 -- 11 Visionary Maxine Hong Kingston 103 -- 12 Dealing with Beloveds (On and Off the Page) 111 -- 13 On Information, Facts, and Data 123 -- 14 Personal Run-ins with Fake Voices 129 -- 15 On Book Structure and the Order of Information 147 -- 16 Road to Hell Is Paved with Exaggeration 149 -- 17 Blind Spots and False Selves 151 -- 18 Truth Hunger: The Public and Private Burning of Kathryn Harrison 163 -- 19 Old-School Technologies for the Stalled Novice 171 -- 20 Major Reversals in Cherry and Lit 173 -- 21 Why Memoirs Fail 181 -- 22 An Incomplete Checklist to Stave Off Dread 189 -- 23 Michael Herr: Start in Kansas, End in Oz 193 -- 24 Against Vanity: In Praise of Revision 211.

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Subject:

Autobiography > Authorship.
Biography as a literary form.