relating to or characteristic of an elegy.
The Art of Memoir
by
Mary Karr
July 28, 2019 - July 28, 2019
(read/memoirs/to-buy)
Karr, M. (2015). The Art of Memoir. Harper.
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elegiac »
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canted »
in a slanting or oblique position
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execrable »
(adjective) deserving to be execrated; detestable…
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elision »
(linguistics) the omission of a sound or syllable…
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hew »
(verb) to cut with blows of a heavy cutting instr…
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So right off, he readies us for voices weaving to…
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> There was a map of Vietnam on the wall of my ap…
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1. Paint a physical reality that uses all the se…
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On the most basic level, bad sentences make bad b…
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Most memoirs fail because of voice. It’s not dist…
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Sacred Carnality
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How to Choose a Detail
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Why Memoirs Fail
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