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- Published: 2025-04-12T18:18:57.000Z
- Updated: 2025-04-12T18:20:28.000Z
- Author: Richard Jeffrey Newman
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> *A memoir is a representation of the author's encounter with memory. It is a compromise with the demands of narrative and that medium we call a book. It is less a record of the past than the record of a sustained questioning, reflective authorial inquiry.*

*—*Richard Hoffman, “Backtalk and Backlash: The Aims, Impact, and Value of Memoir,” in *Remembering The Alchemists*