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What does it mean?

March 29, 2011

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.”

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?

Ghostwriting is often presented as a process of revelation: the author provides information orally, and the ghostwriter writes it down. But writing can never be merely technical.

Autobiography and authorship

January 12, 2011

When we read autobiography, we think we are discovering the real person behind the story. But many studies of authorship ask us to reconsider traditional ideas about the author as originator.

A guilty would-be biographer externalises his inner anxieties.

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