Boom!

Julie Rak is a professor in the Department of English and Film Studies at the University of Alberta. She is the author of Negotiated Memory: Doukhobor Autobiographical Discourse (2004), the editor of Auto/biography in Canada (WLU Press, 2005), and co-editor, with Anna Poletti, of Identity Technologies: Producing Online Selves. Her website can be found at https://sites.google.com/ualberta.ca/julie-rak/home

• Boom! Manufacturing Memoir for the Popular Market, by Julie RakGratitudeIntroduction: Identifying the Memoir IndustryChapter 1: ""More Books!"": Publishing, Non-fiction, and the Memoir BoomChapter 2: Bookstores, Genre, and Everyday PracticesChapter 3: Going Public: Selected Memoirs Produced by Random House and HarperCollinsChapter 4: Exceptionally Public: Marjane Satrapi's Persepolis I: The Story of a Childhood and James Frey's A Million Little PiecesConclusion: Citizen Selves and the State of the Memoir BoomNotesReferencesIndex

"This is a smart and original work, the product of significant scholarship and energetic legwork. Julie Rak has looked beyond the texts that make up the memoir boom to the circumstances of their production, marketing, selling, and consumption. All students of the genre will benefit from her clear account of complex changes in the publishing and marketing of books. Her analysis greatly advances our understanding of the rise of the memoir and its important role in our cultural life." -- G. Thomas Couser, professor emeritus, Hoftstra University, author of 'Memoir: An Introduction' (2011)