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...LOOK AT ME, I'M SANDRA DAY: On January 29, Random House will publish "Lazy B: Growing Up on a Cattle Ranch in the American Southwest" by U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor and her brother, H. Alan Day. PW calls the book, a childhood memoir, "a quiet account of a bygone...
...year-old author Al Alvarez, whose memoir, Where Did It All Go Right?, will be published next year, the tragedy of Sept. 11 will have a beneficial effect if it reawakens writers to the emotional power of fiction. "I think we are done with post-post modernism and the novel-within-the-novel. There is no room for these intellectual games now. As Freud put it around 1919, speaking of all the men's lives lost in World War I and how shallow the world had seemed before then: 'Life has become interesting again. It has recovered its full content...
Morris’ previous biography was the bestselling pseudo-memoir Dutch, the only authorized biography of Ronald Reagan. The two presidents have much in common and are still very different: both had tremendous charisma and popularity—enough to merit personal biographies as much as political ones. Both presidents, as Morris’ title suggests, secretly wished to rule their country like kings. But Roosevelt has the edge on Reagan as a thinker and scholar, and unlike Reagan (who had such the soul of a performer that Morris himself felt it appropriate to make things up in his biography...
Morris’ previous biography was the bestselling pseudo-memoir Dutch, the only authorized biography of Ronald Reagan. The two presidents have much in common and are still very different: both had tremendous charisma and popularity—enough to merit personal biographies as much as political ones. Both presidents, as Morris’ title suggests, secretly wished to rule their country like kings. But Roosevelt has the edge on Reagan as a thinker and scholar, and unlike Reagan (who had such the soul of a performer that Morris himself felt it appropriate to make things up in his biography...
Grove tells the story of his first 20 years in Swimming Across (Warner Books; 290 pages; $26.95), an astringently unsentimental memoir that may find its place on a shelf with such works as Angela's Ashes, George Orwell's autobiographical essay "Such, Such Were the Joys" and Tobias Wolff's This Boy's Life. There's a touch of The Painted Bird, of a Hungarian Huckleberry Finn...