Archive for September, 2011

Memoir Was the Rage

Recently, in working on a long nonfiction project of my own, I sought inspiration and insight by re-reading three books I remember loving: Stop-Time, by Frank Conroy, Kafka Was the Rage, by Anatole Broyard, and The Devil Finds Work, by James Baldwin. Each is a memoir (with the arguable exception of Baldwin’s book), and together [...]