Here are some recent memoirs (or near-memoirs) that might change Genzlinger’s mind:
- Elif Batuman’s The Possessed
- Maggie Nelson’s Bluets
- Geoff Dyer’s Out of Sheer Rage mostly counts (or, if not that, then the personal chunk of Otherwise Known as the Human Condition, his collection of essays coming soon from Graywolf)
- The last chapter of Tom Bissell’s Extra Lives
- The forthcoming Revolution, by Deb Olin Unferth
- John D’Agata’s About a Mountain should also mostly count
- And Emily Gould (author of And the Heart Says Whatever) recommends forthcoming memoirs by Jon-Jon Goulian and Sigrid Nunez
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I’m not saying that his point is wrong, just that—as a critical stance, and a very public critical stance—it’s not at...
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Doesn’t this list just confirm his point? That there...a few memoirs, either especially...
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Not to mention Eula Biss’s incredible / genre-bending...No Man’s Land. Talk about mastery…
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