Word: memoirize
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...part of the store" and that Ryder can produce receipts. But can she produce a lift in her career? Her recent movies, such as Autumn in New York, have been box-office duds. Ryder has always been considered smart, edgy and a tad fragile. While promoting the psych-ward memoir Girl, Interrupted, she told reporters she'd once checked herself into a psych ward, and checked herself out two weeks later. Her next appearance: a Jan. 11 court date...
...LOOK AT ME, I'M SANDRA DAY: On January 29, Random House will publish "Lazy B: Growing Up on a Cattle Ranch in the American Southwest" by U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor and her brother, H. Alan Day. PW calls the book, a childhood memoir, "a quiet account of a bygone...
...DIVING INTO THE GENE POOL: Kirkus gives a spirited starred review to "Genes, Girls, and Gamow: After the Double Helix" by James D. Watson (Knopf; February 5). "Part memoir, part love story, part homage to the brilliant physicist George ('Geo,' pronounced Joe) Gamow, this is another tell-all tale in the tradition of the 'The Double Helix.' Yes, Watson is at it again, recalling the turbulent decade that followed the world-shaking publication of the Watson-Crick model of DNA...Watson seems more tempered this time around, especially in the treatment of Rosalind Franklin. But the urge to reveal...
...year-old author Al Alvarez, whose memoir, Where Did It All Go Right?, will be published next year, the tragedy of Sept. 11 will have a beneficial effect if it reawakens writers to the emotional power of fiction. "I think we are done with post-post modernism and the novel-within-the-novel. There is no room for these intellectual games now. As Freud put it around 1919, speaking of all the men's lives lost in World War I and how shallow the world had seemed before then: 'Life has become interesting again. It has recovered its full content...
Morris’ previous biography was the bestselling pseudo-memoir Dutch, the only authorized biography of Ronald Reagan. The two presidents have much in common and are still very different: both had tremendous charisma and popularity—enough to merit personal biographies as much as political ones. Both presidents, as Morris’ title suggests, secretly wished to rule their country like kings. But Roosevelt has the edge on Reagan as a thinker and scholar, and unlike Reagan (who had such the soul of a performer that Morris himself felt it appropriate to make things up in his biography...