Word: memoirize
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...same time, however, Oxnam's private life was falling apart. He suffered from alcoholism and bulimia and flew into frequent, irrational rages. Several nights a week, as he admits in his courageous new memoir, A Fractured Mind (Hyperion; 285 pages), he performed what he calls his addiction ritual. "It required," he writes, "two packs of cigarettes, Polish sausage, a gallon of ice cream, a two-pound bag of peanuts, a bottle of scotch, and a pornographic movie...
...stand before God, having done a bunch of ice." ASHLEY SMITH, Atlanta woman hailed in March for persuading the man who held her hostage--after killing a judge and three others--to surrender by reading aloud from the spiritual best seller The Purpose-Driven Life, in a new memoir revealing that she also gave him some crystal methamphetamine but refused to do drugs with...
Based on the best-selling memoir by Terry Ryan, “Prize Winner” recounts the story of Ryan’s mother, Evelyn (Julianne Moore), who raised and financially supported 10 children by winning commercial song-writing contests, as her alcoholic husband, Kelly (Woody Harrelson) drank away his wages. While the feat in itself is inspiring, it is difficult to feel inspired by a story full of characters who represent actual individuals, but come off as implausible devices...
...career would bore gifted polymath Vikram Seth. The Indian-born author has already delighted readers with poetry, translations of Chinese verse, a book of travels through Tibet, a libretto and the monumental novel A Suitable Boy. This fall, Seth releases his latest foray into a new genre: a memoir titled Two Lives, which tells the true story of how his Indian granduncle Shanti fell in love with and married a Jewish-German woman after World War II. The book will weave together history, race and love, mixing poignant family biography with personal memoir, all with the author's inimitable style...
...aspired to be a war correspondent, to say the least. But a few twists of fate found him with a notepad on the front line in Iraq, where he almost died...of anxiety. He recalls his brief, brief stay in the war zone in his new, laugh-out-loud memoir, War Reporting for Cowards (Atlantic Monthly Press). "No, this is not an antiwar book," writes Ayres, 30. "This is an anti-sending-me-to-war book; an I-didn't-want-to-go book." We reached Ayres by phone, safely embedded in his Los Angeles office...