Bendigo Writers Festival: Memoir Industrial Complex with Catherine Deveny

Why is memoir so popular and so powerful? Why does it appear to address our here and now in ways that other categories of non-fiction don’t? How much of a life do you need to have lived to write a memoir? Is it ethical? Here to discuss the politics and popularity of memoir with host (and memoir-writer) Yves Rees are three writers whose recent books show just what can be done with the form. Presented by La Trobe University