Memoir Archives |
Broken Birds, Jeannette Katzir - Since I launched HeadButler.com in 2004, most of the reviews I've written are about books.
Brother, I'm Dying, Edwidge Danticat - In October of 2004, Rev. Joseph Dantica fled Haiti. The 81-year-old preacher carried a valid U.S. visa.
Buckminster Fuller - For a genius, he's not very well known.
In the 1930s, he invented the Dymaxion Car, a three-wheeled, teardrop-shaped vehicle that carried 11 passenge
C'est La Vie, Suzy Gershman - Mike Gershman was in the final stages of lung cancer before the doctor discovered he was sick.
Called Back: My Reply to Cancer, My Return to Life, Mary Cappello - I have read my share of cancer memoirs, and I’m quite sure I have never encountered a woman whose reaction to the diagnosis of breast cancer ---
Camp Camp, Roger Bennett & Jules Shell - The kid freaked out, ran off the bus. Much screaming from other kids --- it was time to leave.
Chronicles, Bob Dylan - "Lou Levy, top man of Leeds Music Publishing company, took me up in a taxi to the Pythian Temple on West 70th Street to show me the pocket sized
Coffinman, Shinmon Aoki - In Japan, there's no job lower than washing corpses and putting them in coffins.
Come Back, Claire and Mia Fontaine - The cover shows a little girl, aloft. Her mother's open hands are at the bottom of the photograph. It's a lovely, joyous picture.
Come to the Edge, Christina Haag - The longtime girlfriend of John F. Kennedy, Jr.
Comfort, Ann Hood - Video
Ann Hood talks about knitting and grief
Comfort is a very great book.
Crazy for the Storm, Norman Ollestad - Video
Norman Ollestad, then and now
“Dad and I were a team, and he was Superman,” Norman Ollestad says, in a line that millions of fathers
D.V., Diana Vreeland - Prepare to be dazzled.
You know all about “pink is the navy blue of India” and “wash your blond child's hair with dead champagne&rd
David Sedaris - Video
The Stadium Pal
Are you ever so thankful no one can read your mind? Not so fast.
Dead End Gene Pool, Wendy Burden - The trick to money is to have a lot, but not too much.
What’s too much?
I could tell you --- I was once married to the daughter of the se
Death Be Not Proud, John Gunther - Two young writers sent me some writing samples. They don't know one another. They went to different colleges.
Desire: Where Sex Meets Addiction, Susan Cheever - I've always seen sex as a solution --- a reward for getting through the day.
Sex as a problem? As addiction and obsession?
Devotion, Dani Shapiro - When we meet Elizabeth Gilbert on the first page of Eat, Pray, Love, it’s three in the morning, and she's on the bathroom floor of her
Dispatches, Michael Herr - What would a correspondent for Esquire Magazine do in Vietnam in 1967? Anything he wanted. He wasn't expected to file regularly.
Donbas: A True Story of an Escape Across Russia, Jacques Sandulescu - When I first encountered Jacques Sandulescu, I was a pasty college kid whose idea of exertion involved a highlighter and a textbook.