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WILL YOU WRITE A MEMOIR...
David Letterman used to do a segment on his show called "Brush with Greatness," in which an audience member recalled a fleeting encounter with a famous person--say, bumping into Joan Rivers on an elevator. American Son (Henry Holt & Co.; 294 pages), the much anticipated memoir of John F. Kennedy Jr., by Richard Blow, feels a little like an extended literary version of this, as Blow unearths every last encounter with his subject, as if to say, I knew him; I really, really...
...those who only associate Kashmir with the violence that has claimed tens of thousands of lives, Koul's lovely, elegiac memoir The Tiger Ladies (Beacon Press; 224 pages) shows that the isolated vale in the Himalayas was a heaven before it became a hell. In the simpler pre-partition world of Koul's majestic grandmother and anxious mother, Hindus and Muslims were united by their fiercely unique Kashmiri identity. The greatest threat was a harsh winter and even that, in Koul's lush prose, was to be cherished as a gift...
...prehistoric Peruvians, not by Southeast Asians; of brain cancer; on the Italian Riviera. The so-called Kon-Tiki man did not sway scholars, who dismissed him as an amateur, but his 4,300-mile, 101-day journey across the Pacific riveted the public, spawning his internationally best-selling memoir, Kon-Tiki, and an Oscar-winning documentary on the voyage...
...serial dater, and embarks on a sort of rampage, dating and sleeping his way through the ranks of New York's women. Marin's behavior becomes increasingly ungentlemanlike - in fact, he becomes something of a cad. In this finely written, wildly entertaining, and alternately humorous, obnoxious and poignant memoir, Marin takes us down with him into the depths of what he calls 'bachelor hell,' and then back up again and eventually into the arms of a new love...