Word: memoirize
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...Part memoir, part literary tutorial, the book begins with his recollections of Derek Walcott, a fellow Nobelist and West Indian writer whose first volume of poems was published in 1948. Naipaul came across it in 1955, while working part-time on a BBC radio program called Caribbean Voices. Although Naipaul says he broadcast everything Walcott submitted to the show, he also claims to have done so believing that "the first flush" of Walcott's inspiration had gone, and that the poet "was now marking time." Walcott's borrowing of Western European literary forms is peevishly dismissed as "falsifying...
...have two 7-year-olds we're going to have to answer to someday ... We've done what we thought we had to do. With integrity and grace, hopefully.' VALERIE PLAME, outed cia operative, whose memoir, Fair Game: My Life as a Spy, My Betrayal by the White House, came...
...hundred letters in those months.”Wood proposed to Rossel when she came to visit him in Tanzania, and the two moved to Copenhagen after he completed his field work. They were married this August in Scandinavia at the estate of Karen Blixen, the author of the memoir “Out of Africa.”Wood was planning to move to Denmark permanently in January after finishing his last semester at Harvard and hoped to find a position at the University of Copenhagen, where Rossel held an assistant professorship.“We were going...
...only unknown in a string of infamous lovers, the only one who fell for the actress when she, too, was an unknown—had spent the rest of his life loving her, chasing her, trying to tame her after she’d left him, his memoir would have read like Mario Vargas Llosa’s new novel, “The Bad Girl.” While Marilyn is probably the original Bad Girl, the novel’s titular bad girl is no less a seductress, adventure-seeker, or opportunist than the actress was thought...
Thomas, who has just published his memoir, My Grandfather's Son, argues that the number of 5-to-4 decisions under Roberts does not reflect personal conflict so much as disagreements over principles. "Some cases are harder than others, and some stress you out more as you are working through them, but no, Idon't see that as particularly saying the members of the court don't get along. They simply don't agree...