Tuesday, June 01, 2010

Novelist, Psychologist Shira Nayman on Sharing the Burden of Memory
Editorial by Shira Nayman
Publishing Perpectives


Today, on Memorial Day in the United States, novelist and psychologist Shira Nayman urges us to remember the veterans coming home from the front lines in Afghanistan and Iraq and asks the question: Does ignoring the trauma soldiers have undergone leave a lasting historical impact on society as a whole?
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Can a Novel Be "More True" than a Work of Nonfiction?


 Memoirists lie. Nonfiction writers can be mislead by their sources. Memory is fallible and selective. Quality issues aside, can a novelist then deliver a work that is "more true" than a piece of nonfiction?

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