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Lorna Sage is known as an influential literary critic and college professor. This memoir, prompted by the death of Sage’s mother, travels through the author’s young life, attempting to make connections between the three generations of family that mold her into a woman. The book struggles, but improves as it progresses, to create a believably authentic portrait of Sage’s life...
...afraid of revealing family secrets and personal embarrassments, Sage’s memoir is enjoyable because of its disclosure. Although exaggerated feelings make the reader weary in the beginning, the book soon assures the reader of its authenticity. The memoir takes a look into Sage’s family’s and neighbors’ heads in addition to her own. Sage does so objectively, without bias or pity, creating an honest atmosphere...
...target so well known that people will pay for the scandalous inside scoop. Does Jim Cramer--the money manager turned TV shouter--make that cut? Well, he does now. With a seriously flawed expose by a former employee being recalled, re-lawyered and republished--and Cramer's own memoir rushed into print to exploit the news--there's plenty of heat to sustain both books and keep Cramer where he likes to be: in the spotlight...
...electronic missive was from Frank McCourt, the author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning memoir "Angela's Ashes." I had asked him to comment on the big story of the last few weeks - pederast/pedophile priests in the Catholic Church - and, earlier, he had offered up a few suggestions including bringing back the Church's universal language, Latin (you can read his other ideas in a special Forum in this week's TIME). Later on, however, he came up with another thought: abolish the underworld. His e-mail continued: "[Hell] is the big stick Mother Church uses all the time to keep...
...know you often only get asked about politics. But in this memoir, you talk a little bit about the art of writing as you practice it. What writers have inspired...