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“Our lives don’t happen chronologically in memory, and a good memoirist has to know how to structure that memoir in a way that you can see the shaping of a life....” Amy Tan, whose second memoir, Where the Past Begins: A Writer’s Memoir (Ecco, 2017), is featured in Page One of the November/December issue of Poets & Writers Magazine, talks about the genre and about Mary Karr’s memoir writing.
Tags: Creative Nonfiction | Amy Tan | Mary Karr | memoir | Page One | 2017 | Ecco | November/December 2017 | Where the Past Begins: A Writer's Memoir