To show and to tell: How to write nonfiction from a “double perspective”

22/02/2024
To show and to tell: How to write nonfiction from a “double perspective”

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By Phillip Lopate In writing memoir, the trick, it seems to me, is to establish a double perspective, that will allow the reader to participate vicariously in the experience as it was lived (the confusions and misapprehensions of the child one was, say), while conveying the sophisticated wisdom of one’s current self. This second perspective,…

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