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Handling the Truth by Beth Kephart — WisdomDeck honest review

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Handling the Truth

by Beth Kephart

Kephart on memoir as a form: why to write, how to handle memory and others, with reading lists. Lyrical and ethical.

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you want memoir's moral questions taken seriously.

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you want a workbook.

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Three things you will actually use

Memoir is not revenge.
Memory is unreliable; say so.
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Memoir's ethics.

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