The Aesthetic Memoir: Catastrophe

The Aesthetic Memoir: Catastrophe

Why do we writers find ways to obstruct the very thing we want to do – which is write? I’ve been deliberating over this question a lot recently, and I am using this blog space as a way of trying to work it out on the page – which is often the way I...
The Aesthetic Memoir: Memoir as Activism With Ali Millar

The Aesthetic Memoir: Memoir as Activism With Ali Millar

Lily: Shall we start by hearing about The Last Days, your memoir published recently by Ebury, and your motivation in writing it? Ali: The Last Days is about growing up a Jehovah Witness in a closed rural community in the Scottish borders in the 1980s, and it follows...