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Re:Mislabeled as a Memoirist, Author Asks: Whose Work Gets t... by mcphage on Friday July 01, 2016 @09:25PM (#12020958)
If her publisher felt that what she wrote was veering too much into memoir territory, perhaps asking her editor to excise those segments would have been a better option than recategorizing it.
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Re:Mislabeled as a Memoirist, Author Asks: Whose Work Gets t... by jwebb99 on Saturday July 02, 2016 @10:52AM (#12022753)
Why?

There's nothing wrong with an investigative journalism-memoir hybrid. The only reason to remove the memoir-ish aspects of her books is because some don't find the genre respectable or prestigious regardless of a book's merit.

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Re:Mislabeled as a Memoirist, Author Asks: Whose Work Gets t... by macspoofing on Saturday July 02, 2016 @07:16PM (#12024149)
>The only reason to remove the memoir-ish aspects of her books is because some don't find the genre respectable or prestigious regardless of a book's merit.

Truth be told, I didn't realize a memoir was something not respectable.

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Re:Mislabeled as a Memoirist, Author Asks: Whose Work Gets t... by gwern on Saturday July 02, 2016 @11:21AM (#12022850)
If her publisher thinks memoirs are more profitable, why on earth would they ask her to remove the memoir bits?
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