The Trick and the Truth

« Wolff is the writer who wrote himself into being, and who did it so well that the trick became the truth. »



« Along the way he has become aware of the pitfalls; alive to the dangers of putting your life on the page. « There's a great article by William Gass entitled The Art of Self: Autobiography in an Age of Narcissism, in which he says something along the lines of 'he who writes an autobiography has already made themselves a monster' », Wolff says. »