Second thoughts …

… Memoir as Addiction: On Michelle Tea’s ‘Against Memoir’ - The Millions. (Hat tip, Dave Lull.)

… why is she now, after having made it such an important aspect of her writing life, against memoir? Well, she isn’t, exactly. But as she writes from her now-sober, more settled life, she recognizes it for the dangerous occupation that it is—a betrayal of friendships and confidences, the desire for revenge always slipping around under the surface like a shark.