Word: apologia
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...haven't done well, [but] there's been an increase in the common-man type of memoir." Novelist Martin Amis writes in his own new memoir Experience, "We live in the age of mass loquacity. We are all writing it or at any rate talking it: the memoir, the apologia, the c.v., the cri de coeur. Nothing, for now, can compete with experience--so unanswerably authentic, and so liberally and democratically dispensed." Thus the modern appeal of the real: journalists pepper their reports with the pronoun I; historians focus on the lives of ordinary people rather than those of their...
...Opening Day of the 1998 season, I asked how he could replace the team's two graduates--cleanup-hitting Pete Albers and Ivy Pitcher of the Year Frank Hogan. Walsh interrupted to correct me, told me there had been three seniors on the 1997 team, and made his apologia for Brush: "He might have looked like who-knows-what, but he came to play every...