Word: memoir
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...title of Sarah Palin's memoir, Going Rogue, is a little misleading. The gerund suggests that the woman who went from obscurity to the GOP ticket to the exit door of the Alaska governor's mansion in less than a year is still on a journey toward rogue...
...takes her to places such as Roanoke, Va.; Bloomington, Minn.; Noblesville, Ind.; Rochester, N.Y.; Fort Bragg, N.C.; Washington, Pa.; and the Villages in Florida, where she drew a crowd of 60,000 in September 2008. Publisher HarperCollins, which paid Palin a seven-figure advance for her memoir, plans an initial print run of 1.5 million copies. There are plenty of ways to move the product. Pledge cards placed on every seat at the event last week promoted a deal: a contribution of $1,000 or more to Wisconsin Right to Life in return for an autographed copy of Palin...
Read a column by Joel Stein on writing a memoir quickly...
...addition to playing several of her songs at the event, Dobkin read excerpts from her new book, “My Red Blood: A Memoir of Growing Up Communist, Coming Onto the Greenwich Village Folk Scene, and Coming Out in the Feminist Movement...
JUANITA CASTRO, the younger sister of former Cuban President Fidel Castro, revealing in a new memoir that she worked undercover for the CIA during the 1960s...