Maris Kreizman: Tell me about writing about literature as a coping mechanism. At least for what I’m doing with this book, I was more interested in using myself as a case study. I think memoir and personal testimony is really, really important, but that’s one kind of project. This is something that I’m really kind of trying to put into practice when I write whatever I’m writing, whether it’s an essay or whether it’s a book. So then the question became what anecdotes, what stories, and what parts of myself could I include that were in service of a larger argument? I wanted to be really rigorous about that. But I also knew that this topic was so personal to me, that I was so invested in it that it would be probably-impossible or maybe even disingenuous-to keep myself out of it. Rachel Vorona Cote: I didn’t want it to be a memoir. Maris Kreizman: How did you decide how much was too much of yourself to give away? How much do you give of yourself in nonfiction: This week on The Maris Review, Rachel Vorona Cote joins Maris Kreizman for a special live interview at the Strand Bookstore to discuss her new book, Too Much: How Victorian Constraints Still Bind Women Today, out now from Grand Central.
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