The Art of Personal Narrative
by Vivian Gornick
appears in Best Books on Writing, Writing, and Nonfiction.
A guide to the art of personal writing, by the author of Fierce Attachments and The End of the Novel of LoveAll narrative writing must pull from the raw material of life a tale that will shape experience, transform event, deliver a bit of wisdom. In a story or a novel the "I" who tells this tale can be, and often is, an unreliable narrator but in n...
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