Pretending to Be Tony Shalhoub: On Co-Writing a Book in My Father’s Voice

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“Writing it required me to imagine myself into his memories, his relationships, and his experience of the world.”
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“Sometimes I recognized the adult I knew in the boy he described.”
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“In our book, the experiences belong to my father, but the words sometimes belong to me.”
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“So I wrote that into the chapter, in my father’s voice.”
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“In fiction, I can invent a character’s memories and decide what they mean.”
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“Lit Hub Daily October 27, 2026 Amelia Soth on Carlo Ginzburg’s archive roulette So, how are books going?”
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“Writing it required me to imagine myself into his memories, his relationships, and his experience of the world.”
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“Writing it required me to imagine myself into his memories, his relationships, and his experience of the world.”
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“I found it difficult to explain how I had known what to write.”
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“Writing my father’s memoir required a different kind of imagination.”
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“Writing it required me to imagine myself into his memories, his relationships, and his experience of the world.”
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“We celebrated each other’s good ideas, accepted what needed changing, and kept things moving.”
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“In literary nonfiction, though, the relationship between voice and authorship is more complicated.”
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“I know all too well how “constructive criticism” can feel like an attack on your character when it comes from someone you love.”
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“I suspect this dynamic worked so well because neither of us is particularly precious.”
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“But we turned out to be surprisingly good at working together, even when we weren’t in the same room.”
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“As I worked on the chapter, I found myself wanting to answer her.”
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“I have spent nearly my entire life listening to him speak.”
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“I don’t necessarily know how he experienced it.”
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“In our book, the experiences belong to my father, but the words sometimes belong to me.”
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“But I also had a lifetime of knowing him to draw upon, and I found that I could often anticipate what he meant, even when he hadn’t quite found the words for it himself.”
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“What I hadn’t done before co-writing this book with my dad was write another person’s actual life in the first person, not to mention someone whose life is so intimately connected to my own.”
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“My father is a natural storyteller, with an extraordinary memory for people, dialogue, and the small details that bring a scene to life.”
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Frase de exemploMy father is a natural storyteller, with an extraordinary memory for people, dialogue, and the small details that bring a scene to life.