Word: memoirize
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...haven't seen the film, although I thought it was extremely important that the story of the Conlon family be told. I think the lawyer was just used as a dramatic device. I wasn't important at all. But Gerry Conlon compared you to Joan of Arc in his memoir. I think that was his story, how he saw me at the time. I think maybe he was wearing rose-colored spectacles...
...they win again? In her memoir, Hillary closed by writing of her final moments in the White House Grand Foyer. The longtime butler there "received my last goodbye embrace and turned it into a joyous dance. We skipped and twirled across the marble floor," she writes. "My husband cut in, taking me in his arms as we waltzed together down the long hall." A farewell, perhaps. Or maybe the Clintons will yet want to have another dance...
...this cheerful, good-natured, owl-spotting nature boy? And what has he done with Jonathan Franzen? He's not the same tortured genius who wrote The Corrections. Success has changed him. He's a slightly different kind of genius now. His wonderful and supremely personal new memoir The Discomfort Zone (Farrar, Straus & Giroux; 195 pages) offers a few clues...
...many of 'em." Instead, he's trying to pass on what he's learned before, as he puts it, "I vanish into the big web up in the heavens." As well as giving spider talks at schools, he's busy adding to his self-published books of poetry and memoir. What he says of spiders might also go for his life: "Oh, it's a wonderful study...
Slavitt’s memoir shows that he still doesn’t realize why he failed as a candidate. It’s not because politics is perverted, or because Cantabridgians are dumb. It’s because he, the candidate, didn’t take the election seriously...