Word: memoirize
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...Mother (and Other Things She Taught Me Along the Way), Reichl examines her mom's old letters and explores her parent's ideas about young women (pretty is more important than smart) as well as her mother's bipolar disorder. Reichl talked to TIME about confessing dark secrets through memoir, why women should work and how the recession is affecting haute cuisine...
...debut as writer-director, Toback has put churning, charismatic self-destructive characters on the screen. (He got an Oscar nomination for the life story of another scoundrel, Bugsy Siegel, in the 1991 Bugsy.) Toback has always been fascinated by the machismo of professional athletes; he wrote a tell-all memoir of his years spent with football-star-turned-actor Jim Brown. In Tyson he had a man who took Brown's use of violence to extravagant, uncontrollable depths. It's as if Tyson did everything wrong and interesting in his life to make himself the perfect Toback topic...
Ballard met his late successes with a brisk, ironic air. His final book, a memoir, was full of warmth and kindness for the people around him, but this poet of the 20th century's dark side was a stoic figure; the visionary had his cult, but he had no equals...
...memos revealed, was waterboarded a startling 183 times in March 2003 (a May 2005 memo from a CIA lawyer said waterboarding could be used on a detainee up to 12 times daily for as long as 40 seconds per event). Then-CIA director George Tenet, in his 2007 memoir, says that tough interrogation of al-Qaeda members - and documents found on them, he is careful to add - thwarted more than 20 plots "against U.S. infrastructure targets, including communications nodes, nuclear power plants, dams, bridges, and tunnels." A "future airborne attack on America's West Coast" was likely foiled only because...
...course itself was stressful, I was able to add to my toolbox and think critically and analytically.”CREATIVELY WORKINGLike the College’s English Department, the Extension School’s creative writing program covers a wide range of genres—from playwriting and memoir to novels. For students like Hayes who are seeking to develop their writing, the range of courses provides ample space for exploration. Hayes, who is specially interested in screenwriting, is currently enrolled in Urban’s playwriting class. After taking a screenwriting class last year, he decided that this...