Memoir: Do You Tell?
How do you choose to alert people who appear in your books that you are writing about them—or do you not alert them at all?
How do you choose to alert people who appear in your books that you are writing about them—or do you not alert them at all?
What an interesting read, this Paris Review interview with Mary Karr, author of The Liars’ Club: A Memoir. It’s not a new article; I just stumbled upon it. An excerpt from the interview: INTERVIEWER Did you tell your family you were going to write about them? KARR I’d warned my …