Listen "The Container Story"
Episode Synopsis
The impulse that so many writers have when approaching memoir, is to tell everything... but we don't have to tell everything all at once.
Joyce suggests to begin with some short stories, and today we explore the short personal essay - there is a way in a very short space to tell a very big story - Joyce calls this the Container Story.
Joyce suggests to begin with some short stories, and today we explore the short personal essay - there is a way in a very short space to tell a very big story - Joyce calls this the Container Story.
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