Post #49 – Women’s Memoirs, Book Business – Kendra Bonnett and Matilda Butler
Jump the Shark. The Urban Dictionary defines it as the “moment when something that was once great has reached a point where it will now decline in quality and popularity.”
Have the steady stream of political and celebrity memoirs combined with countless numbers of memoirs by the rest of us detailing and exposing every aspect of our human struggle worn this genre out? Ben Yagoda, author of Memoir: A History, thinks it possible. He wrote: “The main reason for the ebbing of the memoir tide is ecological; we are running out of good true stories. Every stunt worth undertaking has been undertaken; every disease worth chronicling has been chronicled.”
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