A newspaper book critic recently posted on Facebook that she's had it with memoirs. It seemed an odd statement coming from a professional reader. Isn't it, or shouldn't it be, all about the writing? There are sublime memoirs (Speak, Memory; The Gastronomical Me; Bronx Primitive; An American Childhood - to name just four) and countless numbers of worthless novels. We are constantly being urged to look beyond gender - what about genre?
