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Have you heard? "Memoir is dead"...

Have you heard? "Memoir is dead"...

Or is it? Let's find out!

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Caro Clarke
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On a wooden shelf surrounded by two ceramic pots are hardback books shelved. There is Cells by Gavin McCrea, Crying in H Mart by Michelle Zauner, The Cure for Sleep by Tanya Shendrick, Out of the Woods by Luke Turner, Some of Us Just Fall by Polly Atkin, The Ghost Lake by Wendy Pratt, Two Trees Make a Forest by Jessica J. Lee, Turning by Jessica J. Lee, Constellations by Sinead Gleeson, Uprooting by Marchelle Farrell, The Way Through The Woods byLong Litt Woon, and The Return by Hisham Matar

Hi lovelies,

I'm jumping in quickly to respond to various discussions I've seen this week regarding memoirs from

Katherine May
and
Nicola Washington
, among others. The ‘memoir is dead’ conversation, which originated with publisher…

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