Stories
Oral history
A person talking, a recorder on, and a transcript that does not sand them into a type.
It shares a method with anthropology, archives, and the documentary that starts in a kitchen.
The craft is the question you do not ask too soon.
On an Interest Map, the line we most often letter beside oral history reads “a question you do not ask too soon.” It tends to meet anthropology, archives, and documentary.
Work that shares the table
A book that keeps it company
The Library Book, Susan Orlean. Read it beside oral history: A library as a public room full of private obsessions.