Word: memoire
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...turning the lightning strike of a single image, perhaps inspired by an incident like the one above, into plays. But it's not all that he's been doing. He's freelanced as a political speechwriter, teacher, radio program host, bit-part actor and inveterate agitator. In his new memoir Days Like These (Melbourne University Press; 285 pages) Gurr reveals what's been going on in the rooms of his mind and casts his wisdom to the world beyond the writer's sanctuary. This form, he says, is radically different territory for him; less visceral, more conscious and considered...
...Theatre Company from Ray Lawler, creator of Australia's most celebrated drama, Summer of the Seventeenth Doll. For those familiar with Gurr's plays-from the aids-era's DesireLines through to Crazy Brave, Sex Diary of an Infidel, Jerusalem and his recent Something to Declare, about refugees-his memoir is an opportunity to understand how those plays came about. His creative ideal: Never invent, only reveal. He brings a reader close enough to taste the rumble between what he describes as "the unconscious impulse and the internal editor." "Whenever I've tried to modify the first impulse...
...courage in laying his soul bare. The cumulative effect is a gritty grace: depth of character, tenderness and the masculinity that you find in the muscular work of novelists such as Philip Roth or Richard Ford. In form and heart, with its floating chronology and candor, Gurr's memoir springs from a sensibility close to that of the late Arthur Miller in his masterly Timebends. In it, he's telling two stories. There's the public history of shared experience, a critique of the times, inviting a connection. But the quiet story is more compelling; the struggle inside the mind...
...orchestra to create weird, exotic, and intoxicating harmonies. One might think that after such an endearing tribute to California, Adams has all but forgotten his native East Coast. Yet the second piece on the album is “My Father Knew Charles Ives,” a musical memoir of sorts, recalling his youth in New England. The first movement, “Concord,” opens with a quizzical yet plaintive trumpet solo in a tribute to fellow New England composer Charles Ives. The mood becomes increasingly raucous and festive later on as the orchestra imitates marching...
...male-dominated world of business. Fiorina, who served as chairman and CEO of Hewlett-Packard before her controversial firing in 2005 and is rumored to have political aspirations, came to the Kennedy School of Government (KSG) yesterday to speak about her new book, “Tough Choices: A Memoir.” Fiorina, the first female CEO of a Fortune 20 company, was named the most powerful woman in business by Fortune magazine in every year from 1998 through 2003. However, Fiorina criticized this list of powerful women in business yesterday, comparing it to separate rankings for male...