Word: memoirize
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...slated to be in the film version of Reading Lolita in Tehran. Why is a memoir about a women's reading group in Iran a best seller in the U.S.? It's got the Western literature that we are all in love with. I'm dying to play this role because [author Azar Nafisi] went to Iran right after the revolution. I left Iran in the middle of the revolution. This is the journey I deliberately decided not to take...
...illness of my brother changed our family. Our life was different. We were a normal family in the 60s in France and this illness changed our lives," says David B. His near total recall of events that took place when he was still a child results in a perfect memoir of a time when the old world of one generation mashed up with the new world of the next. All the while Pierre-Francois immerses himself in historical books and comics. Gradually "Epileptic" becomes as much a portrait of an artist as a portrait of a family in crisis...
...master plan for the World Trade Center site was being squeezed and adulterated, when the vivid spike that was his design for its centerpiece Freedom Tower was being reworked by other hands, Libeskind kept up a pretty chipper demeanor in public. It's only when you leaf through his memoir Breaking Ground: Adventures in Life and Architecture, in which the bitterness seeps through and he takes swipes at everyone who tried to push him aside in the design process, that you know for sure that sometimes the laughs came hard...
Four years later, Dallaire has published a bestselling memoir, Shake Hands with the Devil, which was re-released in paperback form by Carroll & Graff last week. A documentary of the same title will air at the Sundance Film Festival next month. On occasion, he can be found in an office on JFK Street studying conflict resolution...
...memoir begins with Rowan's early days in Shanghai as a recruit for the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration, helping its Nationalist-run counterpart shepherd U.S. aid shipments through China's countryside amid the chaos that followed World War II. The 26-year-old finds himself in what he calls "the kingdom of squeeze," where truckloads of rations, clothing and military supplies often fall prey to Nationalist strongmen who are as intent on lining their own pockets as on preventing the country from slipping into Communist control. Stationed in Shanghai and then Kaifeng, Rowan develops both a sympathy...