Hacker News with Generative AI: Memoir

If Everyone Has Trauma, Everyone Has Trauma (freddiedeboer.substack.com)
This weekend I read Jamie Hood’s new book Trauma Plot: A Life. The book combines memoir and literary criticism, using real horrific experiences to examine how we should think about the deployment of such experiences in our narrative art and criticism.

Trauma, Literature, Memoir, Criticism

16 points by paulpauper 11 days ago | 2 comments

Burning Mao (granta.com)
The summer of 1977, when I was sixteen years old, I started work at Andy Warhol’s Factory.

Art, History, Memoir

64 points by bookofjoe 20 days ago | 57 comments

The Attraction of Homelessness (2009) (nytimes.com)
FOR nearly 13 years between 1994 and 2007, I wandered the streets of New York, a nomad in the town where I was born in 1949.

Homelessness, Personal Essay, Social Commentary, Memoir

13 points by bookofjoe 103 days ago | 5 comments

Remembering Nan Shepherd (lrb.co.uk)
In the months following my parents’ deaths, I decided to buy a flatbed scanner as a partial fix for the drifts of paper they had accumulated after sixty years in the same house – receipts, letters, photographs, notes and diaries.

Writing, Memoir, Loss, Personal Essays

11 points by lermontov 122 days ago | 4 comments

Typesetting and printing a family memoir (2017) (teamten.com)
In the 1980s, my great-uncle, André Klat, wrote his memoirs on a typewriter.