In this short Big Think video by novelist Jonathan Franzen discusses elements of writing memoir (he calls memoir a “personal history”) and about realizing his memory was not as accurate as he believed.
In this video at 1:59, Franzen discusses his definition of non-fiction and the author’s responsibility to the truth. Why does he say “Good storytellers get away with a lot” at 2:52 and follow this up by saying: the only “honest way” to tell a story is by leaving things out, not making things up?