By Maureen Stanton In The Art of Fiction: Notes on Craft for Young Writers, John Gardner famously wrote about the “fictive dream,” whereby writers use “images that appeal to our senses” so that readers “seem to move among the characters, lean with them against the fictional walls, taste the fictional gazpacho, smell the fictional hyacinths.” […]

Taste the Gazpacho, Smell the Hyacinths: Literary Transference in Memoir