{"type":"link","asset_type":"article","version":"1.0","cache_age":3600,"provider_name":"CANVAS Arts","provider_url":"https:\/\/artscanvas.org","title":"How Terese Marie Mailhot stopped writing what other people wanted","publication_date":"January 13, 2020","summary":"\"I found myself writing the book professors wanted me to write,\" said author Mailhot, before she decided to strip her \"fiction for the truth.\" Leaving expectations behind, she wrote a memoir, \"Heart Berries,\" because, she said, you have to deal with your history \"or it will consume you.\"","author_name":"By Courtney Vinopal","thumbnail_url":"https:\/\/cdn.artscanvas.org\/static\/2020\/01\/97ddcbf157834b26f35d3520595351c2-GettyImages-89830371-1024x685.jpg","thumbnail_height":685,"thumbnail_width":1024}