Susan Varga's Hard Joy explores the possibilities and limits of memoir
- Written by: Alice Grundy, PhD Candidate, Australian National University
The Lincoln Coffee Lounge, Rowe Street, Sydney (1950), the birthplace of the Sydney Push.Brian Bird/State Library of New South WalesHistorically, memoir has been a genre for older authors, reflecting back on their lives, but in recent years there has been an increase in life writing that is tied to a set of ideas or a political agenda.
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