Sharon Harrigan

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Self-Interview in The Nervous Breakdown

I have always loved reading the self-interviews in The Nervous Breakdown. They’re always funny, always cheeky, always a little meta. So I was thrilled to be able to do my own. It’s so much fun to both ask and answer at the same time. Here’s how it begins:

You just published a book called Playing with Dynamite: A Memoir. Why did you decide to write a book about yourself? Did you do jail time or recover from addiction or walk on the moon or something?

First of all, I never intended to write memoir. Like many writers, I started with autobiographical fiction. I wrote a novel about a teenage girl growing up in Detroit who embarks on a quest to find out who her father was and how he died. It’s remarkable how many memoirists say they started by writing their story as fiction, but it didn’t work, so they finally had to tell the whole truth. That’s what happened with me.

 

You still didn’t answer my question.

About walking on the moon? No, I never did. Yet I like to think that my ordinariness is a plus, that everyone who has ever had a father can find their lives reflected in my story.

 

To read the rest, follow this link.

An excerpt from Playing with Dynamite: A Memoir appear in the same issue, here.

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