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Ana Marie Cox on Writing Your Recovery Story

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The Art of the Memoir

In her book, The Art of the Memoir, Mary Carr crystallizes this and she calls it carnality. She says you want to write within a carnal sense. Is that a play on words for the name Mary Carr? I don't think so, intentionally. But it should be. It's a good carnality with a K, which should be like what she teaches. So what does she mean by carnity with a C? It's sense memory. And she points out and it's true. This is something I know from journalism, which is the more detail you can give the truer it seems - even if it's not true. You do unlock stuff that isn

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