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Stories can be conceptually true, even if they’re factually inaccurate. James Frey pretty much argued that A Million Little Pieces was true on this level. Statements or pictures that are factually untrue can be true to the “spirit” of what is being conveyed. A couple of years ago an advertising campaign was criticised for promoting [...]
If you were to research your own life, using only the tools available to a biographer, what would you discover? You might start by Googling yourself, building up a picture of your subject’s online persona. Then you might look for physical records of his past – birth and marriage records, university admissions and graduation lists, [...]
Sharon Lippincott challenges us to “experiment with writing a short memory in parable form, or as a short story using third person and an assumed name.”
I would like to develop a new way of exhibiting things. I would also like to find new things to exhibit: not just objects, but ideas, real people, the kinds of things that cannot be collected.
Memories are often thought of as records of our past. But could they also be thought of as beliefs – or even part of our own personal myth?