![When the publisher here in America wanted to put the word "memoir" on the title page [of 'Winter Journal'] and on the cover, I said, "No, no, no, no, no, no." No genre whatsoever. It's an independent work not really connected to those things at all.](/assets/img/quote-photos/when-the-publisher-here-in-america-wanted-to-put-the-word-memoir-on-the-title-p.jpg)
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