The Plague Of Memoirs

“Never mind that few of these confessions can be of interest to anyone except the people writing them, never mind that few of these people know how to tell a story or write literate prose, never mind that the market is now so thoroughly saturated that it is just about impossible to separate what little wheat there may be from the vast ocean of chaff. What matters is that… we live in an age of “more narcissism overall, less concern for privacy, a strong interest in victimhood, and a therapeutic culture.”