Memoir as Collage: The Morphing, Absurd Self

Paul Strom did not create a story of 100 words, but he created it for us. A few years ago, we read his 100 words in Eleven Eleven, grabbed a 100-word bug and said, "Let's pay attention to these 100 minor minor ignition journals."

Therefore, we are delighted that the collection of Strohm has a story of 100 100 words and forms a bold, interesting and insightful memoir called Sportin 'Jack. We asked Storm about some of the ways he used his memoirs and how he felt about digging in personal materials that many people tend to avoid.

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Why did you decide to write a memoir with a series of short films rather than a traditional story?

I do not like the recession you enter, move yourself or your personality from one place to another. ("And then in 1960, I signed up ..."). It is the same as going in and out of a car in a strictly supervised movie. In addition, I see gaps and spaces as part of the composition. This is kind of ridiculous, the gap has not been explained yet

These short films seem to be against the arc of the story's life - there is something like a collage of smaller moments

If you are looking for a theme, you often seem to be a silly self, because you often joked about these works. Are we fundamentally absurd creatures?

Absurdity? This is certain. I grew up at the coronation ceremony. By the way, after writing these articles, I realized that I had a literary example: "Zeno Confessions" by Zveo, Svevo. Xeno is a master of my literature

You can also explore without fear of the area other people may feel embarrassed. How important is the story of a man dare to dare to succeed?

I like your phrase "people dare to". Due to my own weakness, it may be more difficult than anyone I write. However, I think this is the price of the bet that participates in the game; if you are honest with other people, you must start from yourself. I certainly do not like autobiography (ie 98% autobiography) writers give them the best line

According to my son John's advice, John is a music industry and plans to publish albums directly without label trading. And if the plug does not work, Creatpace was always great.

Maybe it is. Indeed, when I wrote, these are all fiction. Raw materials are personal, but I tried to be true to it, but I found myself partly "roles" in the process of departure. The boundaries of autobiography, biography and fiction are very thin, more precisely unknown

So, I sat there and thought that 'my next step is to keep writing that damn memoir and publish', I was sitting there. The idea began to transform. "Maybe it is a blog, why are you going to postpone what you can help others?" And then while she is basically saying "I feel horror and do it anyway" "... I thought it was dark." No one wants to read your frustrating stories Of course, the most important thing you've come up with does not want to know what you experienced. This is enough to tell people that you are stuck at a difficult time but they do not need to know exactly what happened and they can not even keep on reading some of the content Let's see. I shut the door.

I am trying to accept the epic of Karl Ove Knausgaard. This seems to be the most spontaneous and absurd idea: a memoir of six volumes of a 40 year old white male about the life of a struggling artist? I ran a version of my own unwritten 6 volumes of the story! Who needs it? I'm sure I will start this epic after I cut off his funny and dark New York Times magazine 's cover story "My Legend" (Part 1, Part 2). That man can write. Recently, he could not forget the brain surgery operation of NYT magazine. The story of Knausgaard relaxes among these beautiful and ordinary subtle observations and our frustration and very philosophical meditation in these death stories (1), love (2) and childhood (3) to change. The English translation of Book 4 was published in the United States in 2015.