In Episode 35 Gen and Jette have another genre breakdown and ask: memoirs, fact or fiction? This is one of our favourite genres and we had a great time discussing it. We talk about the themes that run through many memoirs and examine the grey area of creative non-fiction, semi-autobiographical fiction, and cold hard facts.
Ultimately, this genre breakdown showed us that when it comes to memoirs, fact or fiction, we love them either way.
Show Notes
Sometimes that blurry grey line between fact and fiction lands you in a scandal like James Grey, author of A Million Little Pieces.
It looks like Kirsten Dunst and Dakota Fanning will not actually be making The Bell Jar movie.
Running with Scissors was Ryan Murphy’s first film.
Jette’s introduction to memoirs was film school and a lot of pop culture drug-related stories.
So many memoirs have been adapted to film and we want to know your favourites.
Elizabeth Wurtzel passed away on January 7, 2020 of breast cancer.
Books Mentioned
Educated by Tara Westover
The Woman Warrior by Maxine Hong Kingston
Everything is Horrible and Wonderful by Stephanie Wittels Wach
To Shake the Sleeping Self by Jedidiah Jenkins
Just Kids by Patti Smith
Darling Days by Io Tillett Wright
On Writing by Stephen King
A Moveable Feast by Ernest Hemingway
Running in the Family by Michael Ondaatje
The Bell Jar by Sylvie Plath
The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion
Down and Out in Paris and London by George Orwell
The Diaries of Anne Frank
Cherry by Nico Walker
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce
The Pianist by Wladyslaw Szpilman
Hollywood Gives You Cancer by Tom Green
Prozac Nation by Elizabeth Wurtzel
Party Monster (originally released as Disco Bloodbath) by James St. James
The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls
Drugs are Nice by Lisa Crystal Carver
Can I Say by Travis Barker
The Widow Basquiat by Jennifer Clements
Gray by Pete Wentz
What is the What by Dave Eggers
