Word: memoir
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Everything, including the ordinary, seems strange in these fortresses. In the Stateville library, a huge inmate stands and squints at Bing Crosby's memoir, Call Me Lucky. A young, white female history teacher asks her class of ten young black men, "And who won World War II?" In permissive California, San Quentin's main visiting room has the look of a junior high school make-out party where they forgot to dim the lights: dozens of couples, hugging, smooching, oblivious. In Leavenworth's vast mess hall, inmates grab their silverware from a miniature Conestoga and eat off red-and-white...
...conferred distinction on the New York Times as its food editor. It has been said that this private house of his here in East Hampton, near the eastern tip of Long Island, is one of the best restaurants in the U.S. Claiborne repeats this bouquet in his new memoir-with-recipes, A Feast Made for Laughter (Doubleday; $17.95). But so light and joyous is his touch when he writes about food, and so much of the praise redirected toward his talented colleague, French Chef Pierre Franey, that his self-beguilement seems no more than just...
When the Hickok letters were released, Biographer Joseph Lash had already written three books about Eleanor-a memoir of their long friendship, which began in the late 1930s when he was a leftist youth leader in Washington, and the bestselling two-volume study, Eleanor and Franklin and Eleanor: The Years Alone. Lash has set out to balance his work with two more volumes, of which Love, Eleanor is the first...
...took one look at me, ignored my outstretched hand, clutched her Oscar to her bosom, and wheeled away ..." Heartbreak is hardly peculiar to actors, but they are surely experts in extracting drama from it. They often see things the way a scriptwriter might. Concludes Ricardo Montalban's memoir, Reflections-A Life in Two Worlds: "If we are free and open and giving, our lives will be full and fruitful... Those thoughts and a thousand others flowed through my mind as I motored westward toward the waning...
...Memoir, Eileen Simpson ∙Thomas...