BAD AT KEEPING SECRETS

BAD AT KEEPING SECRETS

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"Nobody is that original"

"Nobody is that original"

Jami Attenberg, author of the new memoir I Came All This Way To Meet You, on where fiction ends and memoir begins

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Carissa Potter
Mar 04, 2022
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My chat with Jami Attenberg last week was so inspiring and we covered a lot of ground. A few of the major topics: setting boundaries, the intersections between writing fiction and writing memoir (and how fiction is better at providing hiding spots), what you put in or give up in order to write, how to decide if a story is yours to tell, and a day in the…

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