035 - Memoirs - Fact or Fiction?
Another Book on the Shelf
English - January 20, 2020 10:00 - 40 minutes - 37.2 MB - ★★★★ - 5 ratingsBooks Arts Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
Gen and Jette talk about memoirs, themes that tend to run through most, and floating into that grey area of creative non-fiction versus cold hard facts.
Show Notes:
How truthful are memoirs and what is the difference between a memoir and an autobiography? Please tell us - we're not sure.
So don't piss off Oprah or you'll live through the scandal that was A Million Little Pieces by James Grey.
It looks like Kirsten Dunst and Dakota Fanning aren't actually making The Bell Jar.
Was Running with Scissors Ryan Murphy's first film??
Jette's intro to memoirs was film school and a lot of pop culture-drug related stories.
Does anyone else tell time by what Starbucks they worked at?
What is the difference between an author and a writer and is someone who wrote a memoir either?
So many memoirs have been adapted to film - any favourites?
Elizabeth Wurtzel passed away on Jan 7. 2020 of breast cancer.
Books:
Educated - Tara Westover
The Woman Warrior - Maxine Hong Kingston
Everything is Horrible and Wonderful - Stephanie Wittels-Wach
To Shake the Sleeping Self - Jedidiah Jenkins
Just Kids - Patti Smith
Darling Days - Io Tillett Wright
On Writing - Stephen King
A Moveable Feast - Ernest Hemingway
Running in the Family - Michael Ondaatje
The Bell Jar - Sylvie Plath
The Year of Magical Thinking - Joan Didion
Down and Out in Paris and London - George Orwell
The Diaries of Anne Frank
Cherry - Nico Walker
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man - James Joyce
The Pianist - Wladyslaw Szpilman
Hollywood Gives You Cancer - Tom Green
Prozac Nation - Elizabeth Wurtzel
Party Monster (originally released as Disco Bloodbath) - James St. James
The Glass Castle - Jeannette Walls
Drugs are Nice - Lisa Crystal Carver
Can I Say - Travis Barker
The Widow Basquiat - Jennifer Clements
Gray - Pete Wentz
What is the What - Dave Eggers
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