Stories
Memoir
A life told with the rights to scene, and the duty not to settle a score in disguise.
It sits with biography, oral history, and the counseling attention to a person’s actual plot.
Readers of memoir are often looking for a structure for their own unsummarized years.
On an Interest Map, the line we most often letter beside memoir reads “a life with scenes, not a score settled.” It tends to meet biography, oral history, and essays.
Work that shares the table
A book that keeps it company
The Library Book, Susan Orlean. Read it beside memoir: A library as a public room full of private obsessions.