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The “messengers” are the people and situations that “upset” us, seem to thwart and diminish us. The “messages” are the unintegrated, not-yet-resolved emotional memories and wounds from early childhood that are being played out through these
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This leukemia is a messenger.
“I once heard Don DeLillo quip that a fiction writer starts with meaning and then manufactures events to represent it; a memoirist starts with events, then derives meaning from them.”
― The Art of Memoir
― The Art of Memoir
“In terms of cathartic affect, memoir is like therapy, the difference being that in therapy, you pay them. The therapist is the mommy, and you’re the baby. In memoir, you’re the mommy, and the reader’s the baby. And—hopefully—they pay you. (“No man but a blockhead ever wrote for any cause but money,” Samuel Johnson said.)”
― The Art of Memoir
― The Art of Memoir
“I almost had a psychic girlfriend but she left me before we met.”
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“You’re making an experience for a reader, a show that conjures your past—inside and out—with enough lucidity that a reader gets way more than just the brief flash of titillation. You owe a long journey, and most of all, you owe all the truth you can wheedle out of yourself.”
― The Art of Memoir
― The Art of Memoir
Frank’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Frank’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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253 friends
1,180 books
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190 friends
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541 friends
68 books
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140 friends
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130 friends
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