has a new entrant in Edmund Andrews’s piece My Personal Credit Crisis, just posted on the Times site. For purposes of a genre-wide survey, let me see how many other oversharing specimens I can gather—

5/19/08: Keith Gessen in n+1
2/4/08: Joel Lovell in New York Magazine
1/04: David Denby’s American Sucker (book)
10/15/00: Manny Howard in the NYT Magazine
10/18/99: Meghan Daum in the New Yorker
8/98: Vince Passaro in Harper’s (yes it’s behind a paywall but dammit you should all be subscribing — it’s dirt cheap and you get access to the whole archives)

If anyone knows of others, email me and I’ll update this list. In general, it’s just a godawful genre and please don’t ever do it if you can help it. I will say that Andrews’s is better than most, though, because his story is truly harrowing, and he mostly tells it straight — he doesn’t spend a lot of space wallowing in high-concept self-reflection.

At least he seems to have gotten a book deal out of it, so maybe he can pay down some of that debt?