The memoir genre has taken plenty of hits from moralists, fact checkers and freelance scolds in the 13 years since “Angela’s Ashes” sold four million copies in hardcover and spent more than two years on the best-seller lists. But it endures as perhaps the dominant genre of contemporary literature — and an easier route to fame and fortune than the novel[.]
Jennifer Schuessler, Frank McCourt and the American Memoir – NYTimes.com.
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