![]() ![]() Most of us inclined to write it worry our stories, imagining a threshold of confession that, if crossed, will invalidate our intellectual pursuit of ideas and answers and reduce us to diarists. However linked to my own survival it feels, and however universal the findings, excavating one’s own heart is a luxury occupation.Īmong writers and critics (less so readers), there is a bias against personal narrative-it is indulgent, solipsistic, irrelevant, narcissistic, uncrafted (for a concise history of the bias, see Ben Yagoda’s Slate article “A Brief History of Memoir-Bashing”). ![]() To always write about love and desire is to always be writing about oneself. I balked at her insinuation that this was a fault, but I also felt ashamed. ![]() I immediately realized that she was right. “You always write about love,” a friend once said after reading an essay of mine. ![]()
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