Reflections on Creative Nonfiction, Memoir, (Auto)Biography, Life-Writing, and the Essay
03 Mar 2011 at 11:45
Julija Šukys
Archives, Beloved Profession, Biography, Copyright, Editing, Epistolophilia, Friendship, Letters, Lithuania, Ona Šimaitė, Paris, Publishing, Research, Vilnius, Writing
Today I received the last photograph for my forthcoming book, Epistolophilia. It shows the translator, Vytautas Kauneckas, at the desk in his Lithuanian summer home. Behind him stands a stack of texts sent to him from France by Ona Šimaitė, the subject of my book. The photograph is from 1959 and has a few water [...]
22 Sep 2010 at 12:33
Julija Šukys
Archives, Beloved Profession, Copyright, Grad School, Life-writing, Lithuania, Ona Šimaitė, Research, Writing
I’ve been working with archival materials for more than a decade now. While writing my dissertation, I sat in archives comparing drafts of novels, tracking authors’ corrections and studying the process of composition and revision. More recently, I’ve been working on diaries and letters, telling the story of a life on the basis of private [...]
