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Description: Talking about . . . Murder?
Absent from blogging for months, I am returning to My Place for Mystery with a review of a fascinating memoir by a fine writer who is investigating his own past. One review on this blog that has consistently created a lot of interest was a discussion of Julian Barnes’ Sense of an Ending , certainly not a murder mystery either but a novel which created a mystery by playing on the unreliability of memory. River Bend Chronicle is a memoir in which the author delves deep into his own memory, not playing with n
Ben Miller is a writer known largely as an essayist. H e has published in many literary journals and his essays have been reprinted or noted six times in Best American Essays. The memoir that I am going to discuss here is a verbal tour de force. It is tragic, it is comic, it is unforgettable. I cannot get it out of my mind. That is why, after writing nothing for several months, I am now writing about it.
River Bend Chronicle was first published by Lookout Books, Wilmington, S.C., March, 2013.
The WNBA: Connecting, educating, advocating, and leading since 1917