From the category archives:

Life Writing

Belief

February 26, 2009

Belief is a really, really important part of how we perceive the world: more important than factual truth.

Origins and destinations

February 5, 2009

I believe that at the heart of storytelling lie two questions: where do we come from, and where are we going?

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Here’s a list of 20 pieces of life writing (autobiography, biography, anything in between) I loved reading. In most cases that also means that, in reading them, I learned something new about writing lives.

The myth of the myth

January 14, 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 Brontes. Outside of [...]

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 looking at myself in a mirror, or can be glimpsed in someone else’s car window.