Life Writing Archive
Thursday, February 26th, 2009
Belief is a really, really important part of how we perceive the world: more important than factual truth.
People have been arguing about the existence of God for hundreds of years. Many different sides of the argument have been put forward using historical facts, logic, rational thinking and common sense - ...
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Thursday, February 5th, 2009
When I was too young, my mum tried to explain evolution to me.
She said: "A long time ago we used to be like monkeys, with long thick hair and claws instead of nails. We lived in the trees."
The first problem was that when she said "we", meaning the human race, ...
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Wednesday, January 21st, 2009
You may have noticed that I've inherited the blogger's love of lists.
Today I'm going to list 20 pieces of life writing (autobiography, biography, anything in between) I've enjoyed reading. In most cases, that also means that, in reading them, I learned something new about writing lives.
Over time I want to ...
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Wednesday, January 14th, 2009
Myths are fashionable, especially in biography and other kinds of truth writing.
Proponents of the myth of Lewis Carroll say that early biographies of the author distorted the facts of his life, creating a fictionalised version of the man.
Lucasta Miller's The Bronte Myth makes similar claims about earlier books on the ...
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Wednesday, January 7th, 2009
One of the 10 auto/biographies I’d like to write is the autobiography of my reflection.
I live my life constantly, but my reflection only pops into being every now and then. I could write about any event in my life, but my reflection is only conscious of those moments when I'm ...
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