I think every narrator is an unreliable narrator. In its classic definition - an unreliable narrator is one who reveals something they don't know themselves to be revealing. We all do that.

The biggest thing was that second person allowed me to trick myself into revealing more about myself. It gave me an authorial distance to get closer to the action and emotions, if that makes sense.

I like a text that reminds the reader its a text sometimes.

I like the fact that second person puts the reader in the story. It makes them, whether they like it or not, complicit in the action.

I think the act of lying can be separated from the genre of memoir. Though often times, people are unaware of their own subjectivity.

I have an MFA in writing. It is debatable if they are right for everyone, but I had a mentor who really changed my life, so it worked for me.

My teaching career started with me teaching comp at a very small school in Buffalo. And I was terrible at that point. They never should have hired me.