Word: memoirize
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Kropotkin was an aristocrat who, after being imprisoned for his insurrectionist activities, escaped and fled to England in 1876. He also drew the first good topographic maps of Siberia and wrote a memoir of his revolutionary days that has become a minor classic. More to the point, he proposed in his 1902 book, Mutual Aid: A Factor of Evolution, that the survival of animal species and much of human progress depended on the tendency to help others...
...intimate nature of identity, the way every detail of a life—worn linoleum, movie magazines, apple trees in bloom—becomes important to a person as she attempts to find her place in the world. It is, she says, a fictionalized family history and memoir that contains “more attention to the truth of a life than fiction usually does. But not enough to swear on.” The result has all the delicacy and richness that have made Munro’s work famous, though it’s not without its forgivable...
...Howl of this movement is Neal Pollack's new memoir Alternadad (Pantheon). Pollack, a novelist and erstwhile punk-rock frontman, sets out to make sure that in a world of Disney and Barney, his baby Elijah, now 5, will be cool (and thus that Dad will remain so). He home schools the boy in hipster culture, taking him to blues shows and playing him a curated collection of punk. Goodbye, Baby Mozart; hello, Baby Ramone...
...sympathize with the parents. But I sympathize more with the toddlers whose bouts of playing with themselves, feces hurling and projectile vomiting are being recorded, page by gigabyte, for posterity. Someday, one will write his or her own memoir of growing up in public. I nominate 3-year-old "Sophie," who "dictates" Baby's First Blog at the Cookie website to her mother. In her first post, she asked Mom, sensibly, "Why am I having a blob?" Somebody sign that...
...This was an early instalment in Rebekah Beddoe's calamitous encounter with psychiatry, which she recounts in Dying for a Cure (Random House; 346 pages). While the memoir focuses on how psychotropic drugs sent her mad during the early 2000s, Beddoe's account of her dealings with the eminent Melbourne psychiatrist she calls "Max Braydle" also shines an unflattering light on the talking component of the profession. "Terrible," says Jon Jureidini, head of psychological medicine at the Adelaide Women's and Children's Hospital, of the methods Beddoe ascribes to Braydle. "Sadly, people who read this book will think that...