What do Pearl Cleage, Edwidge Danticat, James McBride, and Cheryl Strayed have in common–other than being published, successful writers? They are four of the twenty writers whose names stand out brightly against the backdrop of a colorful (though dated-and-insipid-for-2016) cover of Why We Write about Ourselves: Twenty Memoirists on Why They Expose Themselves (and Others) in the Name of Literature (2016), one of the best collections on writing around, edited by Meredith Moran.
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