Just One Thing with m. mick powell

m. mick powel’s memoir “i THOUGHT I gave up my virginity to a Pretty Ricky song but that’s not the point” gives a breathless plunge into a memory’s sensory rush. Here they share just one thing about the piece:

“In her formative essay ‘Venus in Two Acts,’ Dr. Saidiya Hartman defines ‘critical fabulation’ and writes, ‘By playing with and rearranging the basic elements of the story, by re-presenting the sequence of events in divergent stories and from contested points of view, I have attempted to jeopardize the status of the event, to displace the received or authorized account, and to imagine what might have happened or might have been said or might have been done.’”