How to impose a narrative arc on a messy life?  That’s what all of us who want to write memoir or personal essays struggle with. For a fascinating and illuminating slant on the subject check out this link to an essay about writing memoir by Karl Taro Greenfeld, author of the memoir Boy Alone.  Plus an audio interview with him. (And thank you Patricia Edie for sending it.)

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/07/09/AR2009070902332.html