What does the popularity of memoirs tell us about ourselves?

by Mary Ann on January 20, 2010

“…memoir, for much of its modern history, has been the black sheep of the literary family. Like a drunken guest at a wedding, it is constantly mortifying its soberer relatives philosophy, history, literary fiction—spilling family secrets, embarrassing old friends—motivated, it would seem, by an overpowering need to be the center of attention.” via  The New Yorker.

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