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Gen and Jette talk about memoirs, themes that tend to run through most, and floating into that grey area of creative non-fiction versus cold hard facts.

Show Notes:

How truthful are memoirs and what is the difference between a memoir and an autobiography? Please tell us - we're not sure.
\nSo don't piss off Oprah or you'll live through the scandal that was A Million Little Pieces by James Grey.
\nIt looks like Kirsten Dunst and Dakota Fanning aren't actually making The Bell Jar.
\nWas Running with Scissors Ryan Murphy's first film??
\nJette's intro to memoirs was film school and a lot of pop culture-drug related stories.
\nDoes anyone else tell time by what Starbucks they worked at?
\nWhat is the difference between an author and a writer and is someone who wrote a memoir either?
\nSo many memoirs have been adapted to film - any favourites?
\nElizabeth Wurtzel passed away on Jan 7. 2020 of breast cancer.

Books:
\nEducated - Tara Westover
\nThe Woman Warrior - Maxine Hong Kingston
\nEverything is Horrible and Wonderful - Stephanie Wittels-Wach
\nTo Shake the Sleeping Self - Jedidiah Jenkins
\nJust Kids - Patti Smith
\nDarling Days - Io Tillett Wright
\nOn Writing - Stephen King
\nA Moveable Feast - Ernest Hemingway
\nRunning in the Family - Michael Ondaatje
\nThe Bell Jar - Sylvie Plath
\nThe Year of Magical Thinking - Joan Didion
\nDown and Out in Paris and London - George Orwell
\nThe Diaries of Anne Frank
\nCherry - Nico Walker
\nA Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man - James Joyce
\nThe Pianist - Wladyslaw Szpilman
\nHollywood Gives You Cancer - Tom Green
\nProzac Nation - Elizabeth Wurtzel
\nParty Monster (originally released as Disco Bloodbath) - James St. James
\nThe Glass Castle  - Jeannette Walls
\nDrugs are Nice - Lisa Crystal Carver
\nCan I Say - Travis Barker
\nThe Widow Basquiat - Jennifer Clements
\nGray - Pete Wentz
\nWhat is the What - Dave Eggers
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