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Katie Soares wrote a new blog post Truth and Memoir in the group Fact vs. Nonfiction

Mon, 13 Feb 2017 05:03:35 -0500

Lauren’s Slater’s memoir, “Lying: A Metaphorical Memoir”(2000), is probably the most frustrating piece of creative non-fiction I have read to date. But has Slater effectively toed the line between fact and fiction […]

Katie Soares commented on the post, The Feminist Perspective, on the site Reader and Text

Fri, 17 Apr 2015 19:04:21 -0500

The idea of a “real” existence of women is sort of off-putting to me. I assume it fights against the cookie cutter image of a housewife who is devoted and selfless , always putting her family, particularly males […]

Katie Soares commented on the post, Reader/Response, on the site Reader and Text

Fri, 17 Apr 2015 18:54:45 -0500

I think i’m sort of forced to take a middle ground when it comes to interpreting works with knowledge of the writer. I’m not saying it’s vital to try to explain away the reasons for things in books by the life of […]

Katie Soares commented on the post, The Illustrated Memior, on the site Fact vs. Nonfiction

Fri, 17 Apr 2015 18:31:44 -0500

I find it sort of surreal that Bechdel would go to the trouble of posing for her own art. By photographing she gains what is considered to be one of the most accurate depictions of a person, and then sort of […]

Katie Soares wrote a new post on the site Fact vs. Nonfiction

Thu, 16 Apr 2015 05:25:56 -0500

I think that Alison Bechdel’s Fun Home most definitely qualifies as literature. From a basic perspective I don’t believe its Tragicomic standing removes its literary aspect, but actually enhances it. On one basic […]

Katie Soares wrote a new post on the site Fact vs. Nonfiction

Sun, 29 Mar 2015 06:29:16 -0500

Coming off Lauren Slater’s “Lying” I feel like an overly permissive parent when it comes to “About A Mountain”, I feel stable in John D’Agata’s hands, while in Slater’s I was never really sure where I stood. He […]

Katie Soares wrote a new post on the site Reader and Text

Thu, 26 Mar 2015 01:26:05 -0500

John Frow urges writers to “… rather than claiming to speak for anyone else, intellectuals should speak as intellectuals and address their readers as such”(78). I thought this was interesting in relation to […]

Katie Soares joined the group Reader and Text

Wed, 25 Mar 2015 21:34:07 -0500

Katie Soares commented on the post, "Identity has always been a fragile phenomenon": The Truth? About Hayward Kreiger, on the site Fact vs. Nonfiction

Thu, 12 Mar 2015 20:43:53 -0500

The lengths at which Lauren Slater is going to sort of astounds me. I think I actually hope the letter was a publicity stunt–that would make much more sense to me. She cant help but perpetuate and create even […]

Katie Soares commented on the post, White Lies, on the site Fact vs. Nonfiction

Mon, 09 Mar 2015 07:34:35 -0500

I think the last paragraph is important, we never really know what is nailed down truth in Lauren Slater’s memoir Lying. But I don’t think we have that ability in a lot of creative non-fiction that we read for […]

Katie Soares wrote a new post on the site Fact vs. Nonfiction

Mon, 09 Mar 2015 07:18:08 -0500

The problem with Lauren Slater is that she is conveying truth as she sees fit. This truth is complicated, considering that she has factors that allow her to come to a differing conclusion about her truths and […]

Katie Soares commented on the post, McElwee's March, on the site Fact vs. Nonfiction

Fri, 20 Feb 2015 20:00:36 -0500

I really enjoyed that you pointed out that the run time alone of this movie is a march for an audience to get through. I think the rejection shown to Ross on multiple occasions is also due to the fact that he may […]

Katie Soares wrote a new post on the site Fact vs. Nonfiction

Fri, 20 Feb 2015 19:53:21 -0500

In my experience with creative non-fiction I’ve come across many techniques for delivery of information. What I think Ross McElwee has used is a sort of braided essay, albeit with some stray threads (ahem, Burt […]

Katie Soares commented on the post, The Evolution of Serial, on the site Fact vs. Nonfiction

Thu, 19 Feb 2015 16:34:16 -0500

Its interesting to think that Adnan, who was 17 upon incarceration will soon be in prison longer than he was not in prison. I’m unsure if this legal fund spurs from either the lack of physical evidence against […]

Katie Soares commented on the post, Silenced Truths, on the site Fact vs. Nonfiction

Thu, 19 Feb 2015 16:09:00 -0500

I agree with you about NourbeSe’s point about truth being rooted in fact, and in “Looking for Livingstone” fact is asserted by those that have the most might. The non-fiction element, although I agree that her […]

Katie Soares wrote a new post on the site Fact vs. Nonfiction

Sun, 15 Feb 2015 08:43:18 -0500

Koenig is very much in the same position that we all are as listeners, she’s in control of how the story is presented, but ultimately, the ending is completely independent of both author and listener. While we […]

Katie Soares wrote a new post on the site Fact vs. Nonfiction

Sun, 01 Feb 2015 16:28:05 -0500

My kneejerk reaction to the statement “writers are always selling someone out” was based within the confines of John Wayne: A Love Song. In such an essay Didion sells herself out first by revealing how she has […]

Katie Soares joined the group Fact vs. Nonfiction

Sun, 01 Feb 2015 16:23:27 -0500

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Sun, 01 Feb 2015 16:23:11 -0500

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Sun, 01 Feb 2015 15:44:43 -0500