...Meghan Daum: 'I don't confess in my work – that implies guilt'
“Confessions are not processed or analysed; they’re told in a moment of desperation, to a priest or to somebody interrogating you about a crime.” If there’s any religious metaphor that explains Daum’s goals as a writer, it’s conversion: turning a particular experience into “something bigger, something that is universal” and, in the process, helping readers to see the world in a new, unsentimental light, emboldened to speak up about how they really feel.
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