“When you write personally and intimately, difficult questions arise. Whose stories do we, as writers, have the right to tell? To what extent do we have the right to write about the people in our lives? What are the limits of good taste? Do we have to consider good taste and ethics when it comes to writing from our lives? These are not new questions. I don’t know if they have answers but “Adrien Brody” certainly makes me think such questions are still worth discussing.”
After coming across the recent confessional story “Adrien Brody,” Roxane Gay reflects on the “price of revelation,” addressing the seduction of writing pseudonymously and its consequences.
