{"version":"1.0","type":"rich","provider_name":"Acast","provider_url":"https://acast.com","height":250,"width":700,"html":"<iframe src=\"https://embed.acast.com/$/6086d520cfb9e813fa7a63a9/68cb83edd589b82845d18799?\" frameBorder=\"0\" width=\"700\" height=\"250\"></iframe>","title":"The Truth About Memoirs ","thumbnail_width":200,"thumbnail_height":200,"thumbnail_url":"https://open-images.acast.com/shows/6086d520cfb9e813fa7a63a9/1758168006515-790d47d6-d60d-4a0f-a7cd-af36885a7d57.jpeg?height=200","description":"<p>In this episode, Linda examines the resurgence of the memoir, and what readers expect - and what she expects - when we pick one up. While the first part of the episode examines the features and history of the memoir, the last part is devoted to the wonderful new memoir by<a href=\"https://www.harpercollins.ca/9781443473040/big-girls-dont-cry/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\"> Susan Swan, <em>Big Girls Don't Cry.</em></a><em> </em>Highlights of this episode include:</p><p><br></p><ul><li>Giller prize long list (.45 sec)\\</li><li><a href=\"https://www.theguardian.com/books/2025/jul/10/inside-the-salt-path-controversy-scandal-has-stalked-memoir-since-the-genre-was-invented\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Lucy Knight and <em>The Salt Path</em> Scanda</a>l (1.11)</li><li>James Fray A Million Little Pieces (3.35)</li><li><a href=\"https://thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/in-search-of-myself\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Frederick Philip Grove, <em>In Search of Myself </em></a>&nbsp;(3:30)</li><li>The “truth” of memoir (5:44)</li><li>Difference between memoir and autobiography (7:34)</li><li>Julie Rak and her <a href=\"Boom! – WLU Press\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">scholarly book, <em>Boom!</em> </a>(6:12; 8:55)</li><li>Guernica Press, Eva Krakow, Voice Lessons (11:52)</li><li>ECW Press and a list of its published memoirs (13:00)</li><li>Random House and their list of memoirs (12:03, reference to Minelle Mahtani, 12:08)</li><li><a href=\"Margaret Atwood’s BOOK OF LIVES: A MEMOIR OF SORTS To Be Published by McClelland &amp; Stewart on November 4, 2025 | Penguin Random House Canada\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Atwood and her new memoir, <em>Book of Lives</em></a><em> </em>(13:35)</li><li>Philippe Lejeune &amp; the autobiographical pact (9:56)</li><li>&nbsp;Betty Friedan, <a href=\"https://englishisprogress.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/friedan.pdf\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\"><em>The Problem that Has No Name</em></a><em> </em>(19:09)</li></ul>","author_name":"Linda Morra"}