tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5996753044552511588.post2470754190591164971..comments2023-09-23T05:06:53.430-08:00Comments on 49 Writers: Ross Coen: On Historical MemoryAndromeda Romano-Laxhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16988887975016816552noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5996753044552511588.post-46583385788986853702012-05-22T11:50:34.249-08:002012-05-22T11:50:34.249-08:00As both a historian and a novelist, one of the thi...As both a historian and a novelist, one of the things I love about reading fiction written by writers of a given era--maybe Jack London's David Grief stories--is that they present the South Pacific as it was in the early 1900s when London was writing them. With that in mind, such stories are not really historical fiction per se, in 1911 they would have been contemporary fiction, but they do in a sense serve as a sort of historical document. They bring alive that world in a way that I, as a 21st century novelist, never could. Jack London was there, he saw that world with his own eyes. I can only know it from black and white photos at best.<br /><br />Great topic, Ross. Can't wait to read your book!Kris Farmennoreply@blogger.com