![]() ![]() ![]() Carmen Maria Machado’s In the Dream House is the rare exception.Īs she tells it, when Machado was a young creative writing student in the Midwest, she met another writer, a woman, “rail-thin and androgynous,” who goes unnamed in this account, and the two tumbled into a passionate affair. ![]() But once written, memoirs don’t typically call much attention to how their authors struggled to tell the tale-the choices considered and rejected, the perspectives adopted and set aside. Readers expect memoirs to be made of facts, however skillfully those facts are arranged and presented, and facts can be stubbornly uncooperative with our creative designs. Houston, We Have a Problem.Įven the most artful memoir lays claim to a certain artlessness. It’s a Hoot.Ī Q&A With the Author Whose Book Is Rocketing up the Charts Thanks to a Tweet From “Bigolas Dickolas” America’s Leading Republican Pipsqueak Has a New Book on How to Fix Men. ![]()
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