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“In the last chapter I quote a New York Times reporter named Raymond Walters who, in 1960, wrote what I think is the wisest statement about the memoir. He says that as a reader you have to stand there as if you’re just being introduced to the author and then ask yourself: do you believe this person? That requires you to make some judgments and exercise some taste on your part.”
Larry Smith interviews Ben Yagoda, author of Memoir: A History, over at SMITH Magazine.
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