Listen to this excerpt or read it. Where should a writer draw the line between fact and fiction in a memoir? Does Tobias Wolff lie about who he really was? Does it matter?
A writer should try to hold as much to the truth as possible, but it is understandable that the writer would forget some things or decide to exaggerate the truth. I don't think it really matters too much if Tobias Wolff lied about who he was. After all, the book was kind of him finding out who he really was through different images he cooked up for himself.
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