The Aesthetic Memoir: Talking Memoir

The Aesthetic Memoir: Talking Memoir

I recently had the pleasure of doing an event with Melissa Febos, a writer I hugely admire. It was for Birkbeck, University of London, Arts Week, in conversation with author and MA course leader, Julia Bell. We spoke about the challenges of writing memoir, about...
The Aesthetic Memoir: Memoir as Disruptor

The Aesthetic Memoir: Memoir as Disruptor

Forgive me if I have written about this before, but it deserves repeating. This past week in my Self-Adaptation course we looked at memoir as political, and read Melissa Febos’s inspirational article about Writing about Trauma as a Subversive Act. which...