Word: memoirize
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...Good Karma Re "Marriage Rows" [Feb. 12]: news of forced marriages and honor killings, two cruel practices of the unsophisticated Asian community, has always saddened me. I finished Jasvinder Sanghera's memoir Shame in four days. I pray more socially minded Asian women follow Sanghera's footsteps in setting up refuge centers for Asian women. I congratulate her for founding the organization Karma Nirvana, not for the rocky path she has taken. M.S. Shah Jahan Colombo...
...wrote in a 2000 memoir that his childhood spent living in the shadow of Radcliffe Yard (where the Schlesinger Library named for Schlesinger, Sr. and his wife Elizabeth Bancroft Schlesinger now stands) was “a generally sunny time,” occupied by the exchange of letters with prominent Baltimore journalist H.L. Mencken and his parents’ Sunday teas that entertained Harvard professors and students alike...
Bestselling author Dave Eggers, whose most recent book is a fictionalized memoir of a Sudanese refugee, and Valentino Achak Deng, the refugee who inspired the novel, emphasized the power of the written word in educating the public about genocide in Darfur in a conversation at Memorial Church yesterday. The two men fielded questions about how they wrote the book, titled “What is the What,” and Eggers’ choice to relate Valentino’s story through a novel rather than through a traditional nonfiction medium. Such a decision, Eggers explained, came after prolonged...
...Abbasi was arrested in Afghanistan in 2001 after being caught carrying a grenade in his underpants. His U.K.-based lawyer, Louise Christian, declined to comment on the memoir. She said Abbasi has not given any media interviews about his internment. U.S. Military Judge Susan Crawford is currently considering whether to recommend that Hicks face charges of attempted murder and providing support for terrorism. If the charges are laid, they would be heard by a U.S. Military Commission. Says Hicks' U.S.-appointed defender, military lawyer Major Michael Mori, of Abbasi's memoir: "It's easy to make allegations, but I want...
...number of good books in the last few years have toed the line between fact and fiction: they read like memoirs or autobiographies, but something pushes them into the realm of novel, whether it’s the implausible (as in Alice Sebold’s “The Lovely Bones”), the unlikely (as in Mitch Albom’s “For One More Day”), or simply a reconstruction of dialogues long gone. Usually, the publisher will help you out a little, labeling something as either fiction or memoir. But then we come...