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In the writing of my memoir, My Generation, early feedback consistently told me something was missing from the linear narrative, something I can usefully call irony. With a master of the form such as Thomas Mann, the key to the ironic method is a selectivity of realistic detail which is…
This month (October 2017) I celebrate the birth of twins: two new novels, long in the making... Red Rock Road, Light Blue Sea —breaks new ground in the territory of the nonfiction novel, creative nonfiction, and metafiction; daring to explore the query, “What is a novel?”—a story of itself in…
Westworld, the popular 2016 TV series, is breathtaking in its multilayered presentation of reality and fiction. As the robots who serve as theme park “hosts” gradually gain glimpses of their own condition, they become self-aware. Identifying with these cyber-humans, each with their own engineered backstory and narrative loops, we realize that…
“Every single rule can and should be broken when necessary.” – conference presenter Helen Moffett, after George Orwell Earlier this year I attended the national conference of the Creative Nonfiction Collective, held in Victoria. Inspiring presentations, reading and discussions left me both humble, amid such talent, and motivated to improve…
