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"Let's Once and for All Dismiss the Notion that the Memoir is a Lesser Form."
Filed under: Little Words Tagged: Atul Gawande, bed bugs, bedbugs, books, Brendan Buhler, California, Deb Olin Unferth, Guernica, itching, Jesse Thorn, Joshua Benton, memoir, podcasts, radio, The New Yorker, The Sound of Young America, Utne Reader
Emily Gordon writes to recommend:
An affectionate, persuasive, sensible defense of the memoir by Deb Olin Unferth. (Guernica magazine)
Another inventive chronicler of our time: an interview with Jesse Thorn, impresario of the radio show and podcast “The Sound of Young America.” (Nieman Journalism Lab)
Two pieces about the meaning of bed bugs, which erode both sanity and civilization: in Guernica again and in the Utne Reader, which excerpted the piece from California magazine. As we know from Atul Gawande, these pieces will probably make you feel itchy, and hearing that the problem is getting you worse will probably make you anxious. But believe me, an uncontrollable but temporary phantom itch and a fleeting bout of anxiety (and the useful knowledge that you should put your suitcase in your hotel bathtub) is a thousand times better than having actual bed bugs. So long, Brooklyn!
