Memoir Archive |
Donbas: A True Story of an Escape Across Russia - “I was arrested in Brasov on my way to school,” his book begins. And right there your stomach sinks. Because you know what's coming: a terrible story, told in unadorned
Down Around Midnight: A Memoir of Crash and Survival - Video Robert Sabbag recalls the crash I wanted Bob Sabbag to be my friend as soon as I finished reading his first book, Snowblind: A Brief Career in the Cocaine Trade. The
Down from Basswood: Voices of the Boundary Waters - In the decade I’ve been publishing this site, I’ve never run a piece about a book that carried the byline of the author. And I’ve never published a piece with
Dreaming in Libro: How A Good Dog Tamed A Bad Woman - I am not a “dog person”. True, I was seen with one for several years in my last marriage because my beloved stepson, who never asked for anything, uttered the
Drink, Play, F@#k: One Man’s Search for Anything Across Ireland, Las Vegas, and Thailand - Julia Roberts --- “America’s Sweetheart” --- is in town, filming “Eat Pray Love”, the mega-selling memoir by Elizabeth Gilbert, America’s other sweetheart. The movie should appear in theaters next year,
Drinking: A Love Story - She was running across the street with her best friend's kids on her back when she lost her balance. Her fall was brilliant --- she shielded the kids from smashing
Early Bird: A Memoir of Premature Retirement - Somewhere in Florida, in a retirement community where the residents are alert and active, someone is even now saying, "Our book club should read 'Early Bird' next." I wonder what
Eat, Pray - Timing is everything. Last week --- in fact, just as her publisher was running full page ads for Elizabeth Gilbert's "Eat, Pray, Love" --- I wondered if there was someone...
Eat, Pray, Love - Three in the morning, and she's on the bathroom floor of her country house, sobbing. And not for any obvious reason. Elizabeth Gilbert, at 31, jets around
Eleven Rings: The Soul of Success - I’ve been watching the NBA playoffs. That will surprise readers who like to think of me, in formal attire, swanning around Manhattan at night. Those readers will be astonished to
Encyclopedia of an Ordinary Life - It would be so easy to hate Amy Krouse Rosenthal. Amy Krouse Rosenthal has written a raft of books about parenting. They have titles like "The Same
Eudora Welty: One Writer’s Beginnings - Harper Lee, Harper Lee, Harper Lee --- you'd think there was no other female writer in the South to care about. But if you drive from Monroeville, Alabama for just
Eva and Eve: A Search for My Mother’s Lost Childhood and What a War Left Behind - Julie Metz can do anything. She’s a sought-after designer; the cover she created for my first novel was light years better than the one the publisher forced on me. She
Exiles - The photograph on the cover doesn't suggest how short they both were, how small. All you notice is their elegance, her pleated skirt just so, his hands shoved casually in
Family Memoirs: Because not all happy families are alike and not all unhappy families are unique - Angela’s Ashes He certainly can’t be said to have had an enjoyable childhood. His parents were poor. His father drank. In five and a half years, his mother had six children
Famous Long Ago: My Life and Hard Times With Liberation News Service - If Ray Mungo had grown up like the other kids in Lawrence, Massachusetts, he would have become “a laborer in a paper or textile mill, married and the father of
Father Joe: The Man Who Saved My Soul - Along with a gaggle of smart (just ask us!) young men in New York, I worked with Tony Hendra on a number of humor projects two decades ago.
First Comes Love - I idly opened “First Comes Love” at lunch. By dinnertime, I was cruising toward the finish and reading in a taxi --- and I wasn't thrilled to walk
Fun Home - A few days before the Tony nominations were announced, my wife had the good sense to buy tickets for “Fun Home.” Smart wife. "Fun Home" got a dozen nominations. And
Gerald and Sara, Scott and Zelda, Ernest Hemingway… and Jerome Robbins - Amanda Vaill is a friend of many years, but I am also among her biggest fans --- as a biographer, she’s peerless. I came to this conclusion after reading Everybody
