Rob Roberge talks about his new memoir, Liar, the differences between writing fiction and writing memoir, and why every narrator is an unreliable narrator.
"We live in a culture where it can seem like everyone wants to be troubled. Nobody wants to be crazy...The story arc of mental illness does not conform to the redemption tale."
A new volume of stories by Mavis Gallant traces the writer’s development from early stories of bewilderment and disappointment to the sharp, incisive later work of a master.