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The Art of Reading Lauren Slater [1]

by
William Giraldi
The Literary Life [2]
July/August 2014 [3]
6.18.14

In her genre-defying book Lying: A Metaphorical Memoir, published in 2000 by Random House, Lauren Slater toys with the conventions of fact, fiction, memory, and art, introducing fabricated occurrences and physical conditions to unveil the truth of her experience—and of the human condition.


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[1] https://www.pw.org/content/the_art_of_reading_lauren_slater [2] https://www.pw.org/articles/the-literary-life [3] https://www.pw.org/content/julyaugust_2014