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Thank you We sneak in contemporary literature autobiography i'll ashman
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contemporary american literature has a really interesting relationship toe autobiography
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in the middle of the century and maybe from the
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nineteen fifties the nineteen eighties You have people experimenting with
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new forms of journalism where they put themselves at the
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centre of a narrative They finally have an opportunity to
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be in front of the camera for the first time
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There's just more and more of a market for autobiographical
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works on dis six tolerated by all sorts of things
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that you might not even think of Oprah is someone
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who contributes to this because her book club and her
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television show which are valued by millions and millions of
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spall put a premium on autobiography those types of people
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who get interviewed Those tips people whose books get selected
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people are looking for experiences that speak to them Literature
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isn't just something that you used to escape yourself and
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celebrate universal values People wanted to be really really personal
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at the same time a lot of writers air really
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shy about being totally autobiographical or they just realized that
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you can tell a better story if it's fiction and
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so that's why you get all of these blended fictions
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sherman alexey or tim o'brien Other people in the twenty
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first century David eggers is really famous for this story
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is where your knot totally sure if they're true or
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not or what's true and what's fictionalized that makes the
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storytelling better It also makes other things possible So you
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can add magic to a story where magic doesn't exist
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in real life It's an artistic decision as much as
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it is a personal decision Why is autobiography so popular
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as a show What do some writers due to blend 00:01:57.952 --> [endTime] autobiography with fiction
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