What Does a Memoir Owe its Readers?: The Dilemma of ‘Truth’ in Creative Nonfiction Writing
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What Does a Memoir Owe its Readers?: The Dilemma of ‘Truth’ in Creative Nonfiction Writing


What becomes fraught is the expectation of ‘truth’ in nonfiction writing. And the truth I speak of here is not an ‘ultimate truth’ that is objective (although there are always objective truths in what we write). The ‘truth’ and the ‘expectation’ can be thought of as the relationship between the reader and writer. Continue reading