Word: memoirize
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...civil war for Jakarta - where Lee was born in 1957 - and were forced to move again, in 1959, after his father landed in jail during the course of one of Sukarno's anti-Chinese pogroms. This gritty past informs almost all of Lee's work, including a 1995 prose memoir, The Winged Seed: A Remembrance, and now his latest collection of poems, Behind My Eyes...
Ricardo Sanchez, the commander of U.S. Forces in Iraq in 2003-2004, has written a new memoir, Wiser in Battle: A Soldier's Story, an account of his life and his service in Iraq. Sanchez was a three-star general - and the military's senior Hispanic officer - when he led U.S. forces in the first year of the war. He was relieved of his command by Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld in 2004 following the revelations of the abuse of prisoners at Abu Ghraib prison. In 2005, Marine General Peter Pace, the new chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff...
...collection includes correspondence between the pair—”No steamy love letters, I’m afraid,” Morris said—transcripts of Mallory interviewing Mailer, photographs, press clippings, scraps of paper saved from her writing lessons with Mailer, and an unpublished memoir called “Making Love with Norman...
...we’re preparing an 80-page thesis on it. Perhaps we should blame Richard Henry Dana. In 1840, this Harvard student’s Two Years Before the Mast transformed his nightmarish apprenticeship aboard a sailing vessel into an equally nightmarish—but bestselling—memoir. He was a trailblazer of the productive-unproductive summer. The consummate Harvardian, he glimpsed the potential in his seemingly wasted time on ship, taking his diary and converting it to a popular narrative and plea for better shipboard conditions. After this shining example of literary advocacy, experiential learning, and cross...
...Obama's memoir dripped with contempt for modern gotcha politics, for a campaign culture obsessed with substantively irrelevant but supposedly symbolic gaffes like John Kerry ordering Swiss cheese or Al Gore sighing or George H.W. Bush checking his watch or Michael Dukakis looking dorky in a tank. "What's troubling is the gap between the magnitude of our challenges and the smallness of our politics-the ease with which we are distracted by the petty and trivial," he wrote...