It would be really interesting/enlightening/instructive, I think, to take every post you write (and indeed every ‘Office Hours’ post George Saunders writes) and apply them not to fiction but to memoir. About fifty percent of the content would, sure, translate directly. But adapting/riffing off the fifty percent that doesn’t translate might produce a theorising about memoir more nuanced than anything currently out there (or anything I’ve found, anyway - but maybe there’s some Memoir Theory Genius I just haven’t come across…).
It would be really interesting/enlightening/instructive, I think, to take every post you write (and indeed every ‘Office Hours’ post George Saunders writes) and apply them not to fiction but to memoir. About fifty percent of the content would, sure, translate directly. But adapting/riffing off the fifty percent that doesn’t translate might produce a theorising about memoir more nuanced than anything currently out there (or anything I’ve found, anyway - but maybe there’s some Memoir Theory Genius I just haven’t come across…).
Always trying to grasp it but it's a slippery thing.