{"id":597,"date":"2006-08-02T06:34:13","date_gmt":"2006-08-02T11:34:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kirstenmortensen.com\/index.php\/?p=597"},"modified":"2020-01-02T16:06:55","modified_gmt":"2020-01-02T21:06:55","slug":"an-accidental-memoirist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kirstenmortensen.com\/index.php\/an-accidental-memoirist\/","title":{"rendered":"An “accidental memoirist”"},"content":{"rendered":"

Over at Bibliobuffet, Daniel M. Jaffee has an interview with Samantha Dunn<\/a>. Dunn began her career as a novelist (Failing Paris<\/em><\/a>) and magazine writer, but after she was badly injured falling from a horse she found herself writing her first memoir, Not By Accident: Reconstructing a Careless Life<\/em><\/a>. She’s since written another, Faith in Carlos Gomez: A Memoir of Salsa, Sex, and Salvation<\/a><\/em>.<\/p>\n

Of memoirs, she says,<\/p>\n

I’ve come to realize that . . . one of the things that makes memoir writing unique . . . is the level of direct self-inquiry that is not demanded in other forms. That’s why I don’t call it ‘creative nonfiction’; to me that label goes to great reportage, in the school of Wolf or Capote.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

She found her home, as a writer, in this genre.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Over at Bibliobuffet, Daniel M. Jaffee has an interview with Samantha Dunn. Dunn began her career as a novelist (Failing Paris) and magazine writer, but after she was badly injured falling from a horse she found herself writing her first … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,9,3],"tags":[1328,1330,1324,1327,1323,1325,1326,1322,1329],"class_list":["post-597","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book-reviews","category-books","category-writing","tag-a-memoir-of-salsa","tag-and-salvation","tag-failing-paris","tag-faith-in-carlos-gomez","tag-memoirist","tag-not-by-accident","tag-reconstructing-a-careless-life","tag-samantha-dunn","tag-sex"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kirstenmortensen.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/597","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kirstenmortensen.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kirstenmortensen.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kirstenmortensen.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kirstenmortensen.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=597"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kirstenmortensen.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/597\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5929,"href":"https:\/\/kirstenmortensen.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/597\/revisions\/5929"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kirstenmortensen.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=597"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kirstenmortensen.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=597"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kirstenmortensen.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=597"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}