Steve Almond on memoir/fake memoir

I love Steve Almond's definition of memoir: It is a radically subjective account of events that objectively took place.

Anything else, he says (and quality nonfiction writers would agree), is fiction.

Entire post here.

Thanks to the fine folks at Brevity for passing this along.

Might I mention how much I love Steve Almond? He came to the Good Thunder Reading Series in Mankato a couple of years ago. I was teaching at a small private, conservative college at the time and offered my composition students extra credit for attending Almond's reading. Let's just say it was entirely engaging but quite "blue." My saintly conservative students were good sports! They learned a little more about the world that night!