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no writing memoir is not "therapeutic"

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Shon Faye
Jan 17, 2024
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I’ve not written a newsletter for a month because of intensive work on my next book, which over Christmas I finally accepted is a memoir. Memoir is any non-fiction which draws from one’s life and memory. Even if it carefully selects only a few episodes and also mixes this narrative with politics and theory (my book aims to do this). I really didn’t want…

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