Comments on: The Hyannis Port Story http://www.miettecast.com/2009/01/12/the-hyannis-port-story/ Lay yourself down to sleep with the soothing soporific of Miette's purr as she reads you the world's greatest short stories and delivers them podcasterly. Thu, 09 Feb 2012 16:21:53 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: gareldo fernandes http://www.miettecast.com/2009/01/12/the-hyannis-port-story/comment-page-1/#comment-2445 gareldo fernandes Sat, 02 Jan 2010 18:58:17 +0000 http://www.miettecast.com/2009/01/12/the-hyannis-port-story/#comment-2445 on behalf of my company's garaldopeintins with him as a dog credit ford in Hyannis on behalf of my company’s garaldopeintins with him as a dog credit ford in Hyannis

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]]> By: scatterbrain http://www.miettecast.com/2009/01/12/the-hyannis-port-story/comment-page-1/#comment-1126 scatterbrain Tue, 20 Jan 2009 00:11:09 +0000 http://www.miettecast.com/2009/01/12/the-hyannis-port-story/#comment-1126 I was expecting some Vonnegutine SF, but this is funny enough. I was expecting some Vonnegutine SF, but this is funny enough.

]]> By: miette http://www.miettecast.com/2009/01/12/the-hyannis-port-story/comment-page-1/#comment-1117 miette Wed, 14 Jan 2009 16:37:56 +0000 http://www.miettecast.com/2009/01/12/the-hyannis-port-story/#comment-1117 Perfectly put, Jon (no surprise there), and while I won't dip too many toes in hopefully stilling waters of truth in memoir, it's probably worth the reminder that this is a distinction largely important for what comes off the labelmakers at the bookselling chains. The Marketers seem to have convinced the Readers that an emotional connection is an appropriate reaction to a book only if that book is labeled as True (or their version of True). It's all bullocks, of course, and another reason to bid good riddance to the way the 'business' of books is being conducted. I mean, anyone who was ever a child and who's ever written a letter to Santa proclaiming to have been a Very Good Boy (slash Girl) This Year might know that total forthrightness is far overrated. Perfectly put, Jon (no surprise there), and while I won’t dip too many toes in hopefully stilling waters of truth in memoir, it’s probably worth the reminder that this is a distinction largely important for what comes off the labelmakers at the bookselling chains. The Marketers seem to have convinced the Readers that an emotional connection is an appropriate reaction to a book only if that book is labeled as True (or their version of True). It’s all bullocks, of course, and another reason to bid good riddance to the way the ‘business’ of books is being conducted.

I mean, anyone who was ever a child and who’s ever written a letter to Santa proclaiming to have been a Very Good Boy (slash Girl) This Year might know that total forthrightness is far overrated.

]]> By: Jon http://www.miettecast.com/2009/01/12/the-hyannis-port-story/comment-page-1/#comment-1114 Jon Tue, 13 Jan 2009 17:21:08 +0000 http://www.miettecast.com/2009/01/12/the-hyannis-port-story/#comment-1114 When Rexroth wrote his autobiography he was accused of lying so he called 'Autobiographical Novel' a name so bad it must have been conceived in contempt and deployed as a slap. And Ford Maddox Ford was routinely accused of being a liar in his many memoirs. But what would be the good of a memoir that wasn't largely embellished? When I finsihed my last book I figured its publication prospects were near zero, unless I tried to market it as a memoir. Briefly I enjoyed wish-fulfilling fantasies of putting it over just long enough to cause a scandal, with public tears and confessions on Oprah. I think most honest novelists laugh out loud at the idea of an honest memoir, or a wholly invented novel. What most memoirists do I can't imagine, except maybe count the cash. There are 30ish writers working on their 3rd and 4th memoirs. They would be: Vol.1 sexual abuse. Vol.2 drug abuse and rape, follwed by recovery. Vol.3 relapse and marriage. Vol 4 divorce and re-recovery. ad nauseum. maybe these are Meme-wars? When Rexroth wrote his autobiography he was accused of lying so he called ‘Autobiographical Novel’ a name so bad it must have been conceived in contempt and deployed as a slap. And Ford Maddox Ford was routinely accused of being a liar in his many memoirs. But what would be the good of a memoir that wasn’t largely embellished? When I finsihed my last book I figured its publication prospects were near zero, unless I tried to market it as a memoir. Briefly I enjoyed wish-fulfilling fantasies of putting it over just long enough to cause a scandal, with public tears and confessions on Oprah. I think most honest novelists laugh out loud at the idea of an honest memoir, or a wholly invented novel. What most memoirists do I can’t imagine, except maybe count the cash. There are 30ish writers working on their 3rd and 4th memoirs. They would be: Vol.1 sexual abuse. Vol.2 drug abuse and rape, follwed by recovery. Vol.3 relapse and marriage. Vol 4 divorce and re-recovery. ad nauseum. maybe these are Meme-wars?

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