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Vivian Gornick once said, “If a memoir is to achieve literature, it has to have an organising principle, it has to have an idea, it has to have something that will be of value to the disinterested reader.” Do you agree with this and if so, what do you think the organising principle is in your book?
I’ve always written with the belief that if you capture something that is really true, specific and