The Art of Time in Memoir

Paired with specific attention to the narrative voice of a work, as outlined by Wayne C. Booth, or as it is intensively studied at the Writers Studio, Birkerts' take on the distance between the writer and the narrator as it functions in memoir is exceptionally well written. By surveying a few of the large thematic tracks in memoir he is able to bring home more than a few useful and poignant truths about writing and how memory functions in the context of memoir (and, separately, autobiography). I'm not interested in writing a memoir at the moment but the lessons given here can be applied to any type of writing, and certainly any time of living, where memory is concerned.