For my ninth installment of Conversations With Writers Braver Than Me on The Rumpus, I wrangled the brilliant Elisa Albert into my twenty-years-long-and-counting internal debate over whether to write memoir or fiction, and she schooled me in the difference between “personal” and “autobiographical.”

For my ninth installment of Conversations With Writers Braver Than Me on The Rumpus, I wrangled the brilliant Elisa Albert into my twenty-years-long-and-counting internal debate over whether to write memoir or fiction, and she schooled me in the difference between “personal” and “autobiographical.”