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December 23, 2020 · 1:42 pm

Non-Fiction I Have Read Recently: Part Two

The Fragments of my Father by Sam Mills is a memoir about the author’s experience of being a carer for both of her parents in different circumstances. Her father has had mental health problems including schizophrenia since she was a child. Her mother was later diagnosed with cancer and died in 2012, after which Mills became the main carer for her father. Mills interweaves a bit of literary biography of Virginia and Leonard Woolf and Zelda and F. Scott Fitzgerald and how their relationships were shaped by caring responsibilities. I might have expected the literary biography elements to feel like unnecessary padding to the book, but Mills makes a convincing case that Leonard has sometimes been unfairly portrayed as a controlling husband when Virginia’s illness meant that he had to make difficult decisions in her interests in his role as her carer. Mills also explores the impact of being a carer on her own creative life as a novelist as well as setting up an

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Blogging and Autobiography

– Blogging and Autobiography –

May 1, 2018

Is a personal blog autobiography?

This is a question that arose while I was studying writing and literature. It’s an interesting question and one that as a blogger, a writer, and a voracious reader, I am particularly interested in.

Defining Autobiography

Autobiography as a literary genre has been notoriously difficult to define. Autobiography, in the classic sense, is “a literary genre [that] signifies a retrospective narrative that undertakes to tell the author’s own life, or a substantial part of it” (Schwalm). Another commonly recognized definition of autobiography comes from the French theorist Philippe Lejeune, which states that autobiography is: “a retrospective prose narrative produced by a real person concerning his own existence, focusing on his individual life, in particular on the development of his personality” (qtd. in Anderson). A common aspect of all the definitions of autobiography is self. In Greek, autobiography is a combination of three words – self, life, writing (S

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The Blurb On The Back:

From international drag queen superstar and pop culture icon RuPaul comes his most revealing and personal work to date – a brutally honest and deeply intimate memoir.

From drag icon to powerhouse producer of one of the world’s largest television franchises, RuPaul’s chameleonic nature has always been part of his brand as both supermodel and super mogul.It is this adaptability that has made him enigmatic to the public.In this memoir, his most intimate and detailed book yet, RuPaul makes himself truly known.

Stripping away all artifice, RuPaul recounts the story of his life with breathtaking clarity and tenderness, bringing his signature wisdom and wit to his own biography.From his early years growing up as a queer Black kid in San Diego navigating complex relationships with his absent father and temperamental other, to forging an identity in the punk and drag scenes in Atlanta and New York and finding enduring love with his husband Georges LeBar and self-acceptance in sobriety, RuPaul excavates his own biography, uncovering new truths and ins