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...actors and producers expertly impaled on Frank Rich's pen during his 1980-93 run as "the Butcher of Broadway" (a.k.a. the drama critic for the New York Times), there are, in his new memoir, a couple of bombshells: Rich has a heart, and that heart loves the theater passionately and needily. Ghost Light (Random House; 311 pages; $24.95) is really two memoirs. The first is about--surprise!--a troubled childhood. The second is a tender reminiscence of the American theater of the '50s and '60s. Where Ghost Light often excels is where the two meet: the critic's evolving...
Adding his voice to the recent media memoir frenzy, New York Times columnist Frank Rich '71 read from his book Ghost Light, the story of his childhood infatuation with the theater, last night at WordsWorth Bookstore in Harvard Square...
Rich focuses primarily on the beginnings of his thespian obsession in his memoir, not on his eventual career in journalism, but he said last night that it was good to be back in the town where it all began...
Kingston has had her main successes in prose writing. Her 1976 book, The Woman Warrior: Memoir of a Girlhood Among Ghosts, won the National Book Critics Circle Award for nonfiction that year. The novel dealt with the challenge of growing up with American and Chinese culture. China Men, published in 1979, received the National Book Award...
...where they will share custody of their kids. The tabloids are speculating on whether or not Cypher and Heche, both of whom previously dated men, will revert to old habits. If this sounds like the stuff books are made of, publishing houses agree. Etheridge is writing her memoir, and last week Heche signed a deal to pen her life story as well...