Word: memoirize
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...before she dissolved back into the crowd. For the former Arkansas governor, the gesture symbolized his remarkable campaign: a validation of the idea that anyone can be President, even a Baptist pastor with crooked teeth, no personal fortune but an amazing ability to communicate. His sixth book is part memoir and part political treatise, full of policy proposals, like a national sales tax, and harsh words for foes, including "left of center" Mitt Romney and the libertarian "faux-cons" of the Republican Party. But its emotional heart is a portrait of what might be called Huckabee's America, a place...
Carrie Fisher is an anomaly in Hollywood: a demonstrably clever celebrity. (I say demonstrably because plenty of celebrities are extremely clever; they just tend to keep it to themselves.) Fisher is the author of four novels, several screenplays and two autobiographical one-woman shows. Now she's written a memoir, or rather adapted it from her show of the same name, Wishful Drinking (Simon & Schuster; 163 pages...
...You’ve written multiple books. Marvin Kalb called your book “Of Spies and Spokesmen” a “journalistic memoir.” What was the process of writing a memoir like compared to reporting...
...done quite a bit of memoir writing. How difficult is it to turn your focus inward...
...harder for me. I've written three books you could think of as memoirs. One of them was about a classmate of mine who was the person we thought would be President of the United States. He committed suicide. That led to a book about my father, since my father crept into the first book. Sometimes the memoir is painful to write, but then, I haven't written the sort of memoir that seems to be the style in the U.S. now, which I often characterize as an "atrocity arms-race." With the one about my father, I kept wondering...