Why We Write about Ourselves: Twenty Memoirists on Why They Expose Themselves (and Others) in the Name of Literature Sacred Writings not in some Platonic realm

not in some Platonic realm of the ideal

a young woman named Rachel survives as a scavenger in a ruined city half destroyed by drought and conflict

If our aspiration is lost

If Blake and his daughters do not escape

Why We Write about Ourselves: Twenty Memoirists on Why They Expose Themselves (and Others) in the Name of Literature Sacred Writings not in some Platonic realmIn the voices of twenty landmark memoirists including New York Times bestselling authors Cheryl Strayed, Sue Monk Kidd, and Pat Conroy a definitive text on the craft of autobiographical writing, indispensable for amateur and professional writers alike. For readers of Mary Karr's The Art of Memoir and Judith Barrington's Writing the Memoir, this follow up to editor Meredith Maran's acclaimed writers' handbook, Why We Write, offers inspiration,