I often like to call Sarah Vowell the Gen X Doris Kearns Goodwin or Stephen Ambrose. She’s a historian for our time, and unlike the Goodwin and Ambrose books I had to study in college,…
Posts tagged Non-Fiction
Lies, memoirs, emotional honesty, and scaring The Deets
Sometime last year or the year before that, I spent hours at Grumpy’s with Jags and The Hottie discussing the bullshit that is dubbed “creative non-fiction.” That designation as a writing genre drives me nuts….