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… Memoir, community, and zine tours: An interview with Katie Haegele | Microcosm Publishing. (Hat tip, Dave Lull.)

I guess now that I've been doing memoir-style writing for several years, important themes that I've returned to are ideas about language, memory, nostalgia, and—at the risk of sounding really pompous—material culture. I like looking at different facets of our culture, like the way we speak and the way we dress, and mining them for a deeper meaning. I never get tired of thinking about how objects, like personal belongings that we buy, inherit, or receive as gifts, can be a way to look at so much else in life, including larger ideas like gender expression, family, and home, as well as loss and grief.