Word: memoirize
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...journalism if you will, but the National Enquirer sold 6.5 million newsstand copies of its issue with Elvis peacefully at rest in his open casket. In September, Iain Calder, the Enquirer?s editor-in-chief for 30 years, will detail such feats of tabloidism in an as-yet untitled memoir for Talk Miramax. This is the guy who knows where all the bodies are buried, even before they?re buried...
Hentoff: It’s a memoir and one always likes to have one’s memoirs around. It’s also one of the two—well, two or three best books I’ve written...
...Hentoff, prolific author on jazz and the First Amendment (39 published books) and Village Voice syndicated columnist is working on millions of things, like always. None of his current work is about Boston, but one of his favorite books, a memoir called Boston Boy about growing up in Roxbury, was recently re-released. Hentoff agreed to a gambol down faded 60-year-old Memory Lane to talk about his book and his Boston upbringing, though that’s not really what he ended up talking about...
...Texas photo op is dear to Jiang because he's had a spate of bad publicity of late. Frustrated proponents of political reform have smuggled abroad an insider's memoir, believed authentic by U.S. sinologists, called Zhu Rongji in 1999. A hatchet job, the book, thought to be written by a Zhu aide, accuses Jiang of undermining China's immensely respected Premier by playing petty political games?denying him the office space he wanted, for one thing?and doing "everything in his power to turn Zhu Rongji into a figurehead." Then there's the indignity of revelations by military leaders...
...truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of wife.” This statement, from Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice, launches James D. Watson’s new memoir, Genes, Girls, and Gamow, which picks up where The Double Helix, his first memoir, left off. Although the title suggests a tripartite focus, the “girls” portion certainly dominates the book and much of the reader’s attention is focused on Watson’s pursuit of a wife from...