tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7468471283937804953.post1217338046218668360..comments2024-01-01T08:08:40.231-06:00Comments on Pen and Palette: It's a Good Memoir, but Is It Art?Susan Cushmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12513534110522851590noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7468471283937804953.post-72488823541254311722012-03-21T20:43:51.784-05:002012-03-21T20:43:51.784-05:00I loved Glass Castle. While Jeanette is certainly ...I loved Glass Castle. While Jeanette is certainly a great storyteller, I believe the emotional content and transformation were there, for sure. Art is in the eye of the beholder.Bob Nortonnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7468471283937804953.post-40771389782537760492012-03-21T09:57:18.992-05:002012-03-21T09:57:18.992-05:00Great thoughts, Patrick... especially that last li...Great thoughts, Patrick... especially that last line. That's pretty much what my friend, David Lyons, said on Facebook about all this bru ha ha. But since art speaks to me much more than straight narrative, that's what I'll be shooting for in my own writing. Just saying:-) THANKS FOR READING AND COMMENTING!Susan Cushmanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12513534110522851590noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7468471283937804953.post-58635116186790043092012-03-21T05:27:53.475-05:002012-03-21T05:27:53.475-05:00There is, perhaps, a larger question here, namely ...There is, perhaps, a larger question here, namely the extent to which CNF is appreciated as art. Sue Silverman, in her "Meandering River" essay, talks about CNF as a spectrum, with biography on one end and lyric essays on the other end. She talks about the extent to which those types of prose are viewed as "creative," and the lyric essay--often more challenging to dissect thanPatrick Rosshttp://artistsroad.wordpress.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7468471283937804953.post-80366778390178146992012-03-20T23:27:22.267-05:002012-03-20T23:27:22.267-05:00I'm curious why your book club friends thought...I'm curious why your book club friends thought The Glass Castle was more fiction than memoir. I loved the book, and also met Walls in person and have watched several interview she has given, and unless she's lying, this is a real story. Whether or not she showed enough reflection and/or transformation for it to be truly art, as memoir, is what is being debated, I think. Perhaps she didn&#Susan Cushmanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12513534110522851590noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7468471283937804953.post-16762370185829894382012-03-20T23:05:02.958-05:002012-03-20T23:05:02.958-05:00I read Gilbert's blog post, but not Prose'...I read Gilbert's blog post, but not Prose's review (just what Gilbert quoted). <br /><br />I think perhaps some may not consider Walls book (which I haven't read either) art because of the lack of reflection that Gilbert and Prose seem to refer to. There's not a transformation, which many memoirists consider key to the genre.<br /><br />But I'm speaking a bit blindly here, notTina Fariss Barbourhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15659018994558471570noreply@blogger.com