Word: memoirize
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After an introduction by Laurance S. Rockefeller University Professor of Philosophy at Princeton K. Anthony Appiah, Soyinka himself took the podium. Soyinka read “A Digression on the Purpose of Accident,” an excerpt from a memoir-in-progress he expects to publish next year...
Kumin’s publisher Carol Smith began working with the poet on her 1992 book Poets’ Prize-winning book “Looking for Luck.” Since then, she has worked with Kumin on five other books, including a memoir...
...father remains silent and remote. Even the Bronx is incompletely perceived. Granted that it is not New York City's most glamorous borough, it is home to the Yankees and one of the world's great zoos. Neither attraction appears in the book, understandable if Doctorow had written a memoir, but a lost opportunity in a novel about growing up with "King Kong" Keller and other great apes in the neighborhood. --By R.Z. Sheppard
...dubious advice for a writer. From James Joyce to Tennessee Williams, from Virginia Woolf to Mary Gordon, modern literature has thrived on an undercurrent of patricide and matricide. Monstrous parents, it seems, are what gifted children barely survive in order to write about them with inspired resentment. Loving memoirs tend to rank second only to corporate histories of tool-and-die companies as the kind of book any reader can put down. In the face of this, Wilfrid Sheed, a witty, acerbic critic and novelist (Office Politics, Transatlantic Blues), has managed to compose a mellow family chronicle that turns literary...
BORN. To Candice Bergen, 39, cool, elegant blond actress (Carnal Knowledge, Rich and Famous) and author of a best-selling memoir (Knock Wood) about her life as Ventriloquist Edgar Bergen's daughter; and her husband Louis Malle, 53, French director (Lacombe, Lucien, Atlantic City); their first child (Malle has two children from a previous marriage), a daughter; in New York City. Name: Chloe. Weight...