Time alters everything it touches, including our memories. How does our understanding of the mutability of memory—that we romanticize it, invalidate it, revise and furnish it with fictions—influence the stories we distill from the past? How have nonfiction writers dealt with that “remembering” which constitutes experiences or events that didn’t happen to us, but which were passed down to us through the memories and stories of others? This presentation includes a writing exercise.
