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I Could Tell You Stories

by Patricia Hampl

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Memoir, that landscape bordered by memory and imagination, has become the signature genre of our age. In this timely gathering, Patricia Hampl moves back and forth between a series of story-like recollections and essays in which she considers how she has been "enchanted or bedeviled" by autobiographical writing - her own and others'.

AutobiographyBiography as a literary formAutobiographical memoryNew York Times reviewed