Thursday, June 26, 2008

The Confusion of Misery

Decca Aitkenhead profiles the original misery memoirist David Pelzer for today's Guardian and uncovers a possibly clarifying confusion....

9 comments:

Anonymous said...

I've never felt the slightest interest in these books, & thus have not read them and knew nothing about the author - though I have read at least one "misery memoir", so I suppose I've been influenced by the trend... (It was Elizabeh Wurtzel.) The interview is very funny indeed. Ma'am.

Elizabeth Baines said...

Oh yes, I read the Elizabeth Wurtzel. I thought there were some weird anomalies in that too. Ma'am.

Claire said...

Hello, just wanted to say I enjoy your blog and have added your book to my summer reading. I also have a question - I have a blog on Blogger as well, and I was wondering how to get the "labels" section you have on your blog. Did you manually copy each url from "edit posts" or does Blogger have a function for this that I'm not aware of? Thanks for your help!

Elizabeth Baines said...

Thanks Amber. I hope you enjoy the book!

As far as I can remember you simply type in a label you've decided on in the label box at the bottom of your post, and then Blogger automatically applies labels to your side bar. I've looked and I can't find any special setting for it, and as I say that's all I remember doing.

Maybe someone else who happens to read this knows better, though...

Anyway, give it a try.

Elizabeth Baines said...

PS your profile isn't available. Can you give us a link to your blog?

Claire said...

Oh, sorry(fixed that problem, my profile now appears).
http://amberletterstotheworld.blogspot.com/

Hmm. Thank you very much, I'll have to look further - I label every post but so far haven't been able to find a widget or anything for Blogger to list them in my sidebar, and for me at least it doesn't do it automatically. :( But thanks anyway.

Claire said...

Never mind! I found the function. :) Thank you.

Elizabeth Baines said...

Weird, they're in your sidebar as far as I'm concerned!

Elizabeth Baines said...

Ah good!