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Mary Karr Thinks You Shouldn’t Google Yourself

You write that a good memoir is not about ego. How so? Obviously, it has to be the most interesting version of you. But it’s not about peddling some highly polished version of yourself to a gullible public. We’ve all read bad novels that are that way. Narcissism is the bacterium infecting all bad writing.

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