Tag Archives: Thomas Larson
Your brain on nonfiction vs. fiction
A guest post by Thomas Larson In a recent New York Times essay, “Your Brain on Fiction,” Annie Murphy Paul argues that “Fiction — with its redolent details, imaginative metaphors and attentive descriptions of people and their actions — offers an especially … Continue reading
Filed under essay-narrative, evolutionary psychology, fiction, memoir, narrative
Noted: Honesty & emotion in memoir
“All memoirs have one thing in common: each book charts the struggle between the subject of the memoir and the self. Almost always the subject is something other than the writer while the self, of course, is the writer.”—Thomas Larson … Continue reading
Real art for our virtual times
David Shields’s audacious Reality Hunger has provoked much discussion and many mixed notices. Thomas Larson, journalist, essayist, and critic, has just weighed in in Agni Online, wittily calling the book “an improvised explosive device applied to the sacred cow of … Continue reading
Filed under aesthetics, creative nonfiction, experimental, fiction, narrative
The abomination of faked memoir
from “Fiction, Fact, and Faked Memoirs,” by Thomas Larson, author of The Memoir and the Memoirist, in New English Review “Writing a memoir, one is tormented less by the particular truth of a character’s emotion, as in fiction, and more … Continue reading
Review: ‘Memoir and the Memoirist’
The Memoir and the Memoirist: Reading and Writing Personal Narrative by Thomas Larson. Swallow Press. 211 pp. $11.53 As one who loves narrative (reading two essay collections in a row without discernable narrative makes me crazy for story) I found … Continue reading
