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Paulson responded that while editing his memoir??“On the Brink: Inside the Race to Stop the Collapse of the Global Financial System”—he had changed the word “greed” to “profit motive.” According to Paulson, this desire for profit would not dissipate, which is why regulatory systems are necessary...
...said she was inspired to write her memoir??which was published last month—after she came across her great-grandfather’s cane, which she had seen in family photographs her whole life...
Professor Henry Louis “Skip” Gates, Jr., spoke about his book “Colored People: A Memoir??, a homage to his family and West Virginia hometown, to a crowd of nearly 500 people last night in Sanders Theatre...
...which “Burn After Reading” unfortunately lacks. The characters are indeed idiosyncratic and neurotic. Linda’s obsession with “reinventing” herself, Harry’s food allergy anxieties, and Ozzy’s pronunciation of “memoir?? (mem-WAH) are omnipresent. But this does not mean that they are complex. Even McDormand and Swinton, two exceptional actors capable of coaxing humanity out of the crudest roles, portray flat characters. McDormand does all she can with the material at hand, but Linda seems under-developed. Like most...
...book, “Omaha Blues,” Joseph Lelyveld ’58 purposefully resists the memoir category, instead subtitling the text a “memory loop.” The framework of this generic rechristening helps Lelyveld avoid some of memoir??s more obvious traps, self-indulgence among them, but it is fundamentally less than honest: “Omaha Blues” is still a memoir, and only a fair one at that...