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...Agee. Agee was a CIA officer who spent most of his 11-year career in Latin America. He resigned in 1969 and devoted himself to bringing down the agency for its alleged complicity with repressive Third World regimes. Engaging in what he termed "guerrilla journalism," Agee wrote a 1975 memoir, Inside the Company: CIA Diary, featuring a 24-page appendix made up of agents' names and operations. Later that year Richard Welch, a CIA station officer in Athens, was assassinated. Welch was not one of the agents outed in Agee's book (and his identity was not a well-kept...
Carter’s 2002 memoir, “Nothing To Fall Back On,” rivals Lemony Snicket’s “A Series of Unfortunate Events” for Job-esque disasters faced with perseverance worthy of, well, Job, including a traumatic childhood move to Florida, a closeted husband, a house-destroying fire, a folded magazine, and breast cancer. Although she emerged on the other side married to the love of her life, she demonstrated a playful ease with pain that only comes with experience and a damned strong sense of the absurd...
...always wanted to write fiction. But I’ve had a fairly eventful life, and I knew that if I didn’t write a memoir the people and the events from my life would keep showing up fictionalized. I kind of needed to get rid of them in the memoir before I could start this project. The day I handed in the memoir, I started writing a short story and that short story became this novel. As a journalist I find fiction a very liberating form of writing: not everything has to be true...
...does the process of writing a novel differ from that of a memoir...
...stick to the facts. In fiction, you can kill a character and then you miss her and you can bring her back to life. It doesn’t work that way in memoir writing...