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...with Bridget, curl up with Nuala O'Faolain (Are You Somebody: The Accidental Memoir of a Dublin Woman) and Julia Scully (Outside Passages), who elicit a hundred now-isn't-that-the-truth moments. O'Faolain, a celebrated columnist at the Irish Times, is more than a female Frank McCourt. While she's no slouch at depicting old-sod poverty--sleeping with a scrap of sheet to keep her father's overcoat from scratching her chin and dreaming of a place to hang her ragged clothes--her real strength is in her close-to-the-bone rendering of the sadness...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Now Isn't THAT the Truth? | 6/8/1998 | See Source »

...miss out if you didn't check out some of the St. Patty's Day celebration. Just for starters, Ireland's most mainstream and highly-acclaimed traditional music group The Chieftans will be performing at Symphony Hall tonight. On the theatre front, look for Pulitzer winner Frank McCourt (of Angela's Ashes fame) and his hit play The Irish... And How They Got That Way and for brand-new Copley Theatre's A Portrait of Oscar Wilde. And every pub--every pub!--has something planned. If nothing else, just go downtown. (And don't forget to wear green...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Pieces | 3/13/1998 | See Source »

...seem, some 700 people paid $10 each last week to get into a Manhattan auditorium and sit--or stand--through a panel discussion on "The Memoir Explosion: Novel of the '90s or Just Another Brand of Therapy?" Most attention went to two of the panelists: Frank McCourt, whose best-selling memoir, Angela's Ashes, had just the day before won a Pulitzer Prize for biography, and Kathryn Harrison, whose memoir The Kiss, also a best seller, tells of an incestuous affair between her and her father that began when she was 20. A year ago, hardly anyone in the audience...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LEISURE: REAL-LIFE MISERY. READ ALL ABOUT IT! | 4/21/1997 | See Source »

What is going on here? Are memoirs becoming the substitute for novels, or does their popularity simply indicate a culture sinking ever further into gossip, trivia and terminal narcissism? Last week's panelists in Manhattan addressed these questions, as panelists are prone to do, without answering them. McCourt told the crowd that he considered telling the story of his harsh Irish childhood, the subject of Angela's Ashes, in fictional form. "I attempted it, and it was awful. I am not a novelist...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LEISURE: REAL-LIFE MISERY. READ ALL ABOUT IT! | 4/21/1997 | See Source »

...contemporary fascination with real stories raises a question: Just how real are they? McCourt, Harrison and all the wannabes may be telling the truth about their past, but they are also, as Harrison puts it, fictionalizing what really happened. Did McCourt's grandmother really say to him, when he was a small boy, "If 'tis a thing I ever find out you were telling jokes to Jesuits, I'll tear the bloody kidneys outa you"? Did Harrison's grandmother really tell her, once she began crossing her eyes as a child, "They'll get stuck like that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LEISURE: REAL-LIFE MISERY. READ ALL ABOUT IT! | 4/21/1997 | See Source »

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