on the writing of memoir Kephart, Beth. creator text nyu New York Gotham Books [2013] 2013 monographic eng

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xiii, 254 p. ; 21 cm Writing memoir is a deeply personal, and consequential, undertaking. As the acclaimed author of five memoirs spanning significant turning points in her life, Beth Kephart has been both blessed and bruised by the genre. In Handling the Truth, she thinks out loud about the form—on how it gets made, on what it means to make it, on the searing language of truth, on the thin line between remembering and imagining, and, finally, on the rights of memoirists. Drawing on proven writing lessons and classic examples, on the work of her students and on her own memories of weather, landscape, color, and love, Kephart probes the wrenching and essential questions that lie at the heart of memoir. A beautifully written work in its own right, Handling the Truth is Kephart’s memoir-writing guide for those who read or seek to write the truth. p. 1. Definitions, preliminaries, cautions -- p. 2. Raw material -- p. 3. Get moving -- p. 4. Fake not and other last words. Beth Kephart. Autobiography Authorship Biography as a literary form Autobiografía Técnicas Arte de escribir Autobiografía Metodología Creación literaria PN 145 K38h 2013 808.06692 9781592408153 2012043517 DLC 121218 20230410130529.0 117892 eng