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Live in Italy for Two Years and Write in Italian

May 17, 2016

The word on Jhumpa Lahiri was that she’d moved to Italy and now, after a few years of immersing herself in the language, was going to write in Italian. Had I heard this news about one of my fellow, white American, middle-class novelists, I would have shrugged and said, “Knock yourself out.” [Read more…]

Filed Under: General, New Books Tagged With: Campo dei Fiori, foreign cultures, In Other Words, Italy, Jhumpa Lahiri, Joseph Conrad, Nabokov, novelists, Via Giulia

Memoir Versus Novel

April 18, 2015

Bottoming Out Memoirs

 

Memoir Versus NovelI am not done weighing in about memoirs. While hiking on a neighbor’s land, it came to me that to create emotional resonance in a reader is a lot harder for a fiction-writer. Why?

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Filed Under: General Tagged With: autobiographical, bottoming out, dysfunctional, fiction, fiction-writing, imagination, James Frey, Memoir, memoirist, Nabokov, novelist, redemption, spiritual crisis, truth

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