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Friday Jan 27, 2006
Switching from memoir to novelWhen L'Affaire Frey broke big, Martha Sherrill wrote an op-ed in the Washington Post about the whole business because it proved to hit uncomfortably close to home -- but for the opposite reasons, as she tells the Seattle Post-Intelligencer: "I originally sold the idea for 'The Ruins of California' as a memoir for a nice advance, and it was going to be about my California bachelor father and his incredible parade of girlfriends and what it was like to grow up in his unconventional world. After a year or so, I found I couldn't write about it if I had to write the truth. It was going to hurt too many people!" So by fashioning the book into a novel, she could meld fact and fiction together and not have to worry that Oprah would ever shame her on national television (or some lesser equivalent.) Email This Post |
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