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    Lilly Dancyger Is Rethinking the Ethics of Memoir

    by Elizabeth Endicott May 09, 2024 5 minutes

    Early in First Love: Essays on Friendship, Lilly Dancyger writes about her fire escape, a precarious perch off an old East Village apartment where she and her friends would gather: “Literally stepping out of our lives, to drink and smoke and commiserate.” It becomes a perfect metaphor for the refuge found in friendship, for the ways we hold and make space for one another, and this book is an extension of that: a hand to squeeze, a shoulder to lean on. Throughout First Love, Dancyger reminds us that our most meaningful love stories can be those we share with our friends.

    I talked with Dancyger about the ethics of memoir, sapphic love, and the limits of writing advice.

    Elizabeth Endicott: Reading First Love felt like a manifesto at times, like

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