Jonathan Silverman is the author of Nine Choices:Johnny Cash and American Culture (University of Massachusetts Press, 2010). He is an associate professor of English at University of Massachusetts Lowell. He recently served as a Fulbright Roving Scholar in American Studies in Norway.
The premise of Daniel Nester’s The Memoir Office is simple. Nester sat in a Troy, New York art gallery, wrote and talked to people who inquired about his exhibit, which…