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Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said that Donald G. Jones, 78, a Methodist pastor who mentored her in high school, taught her the "importance of social justice," crediting him in her memoir Living History as a major influence in her life...
...Mother (and Other Things She Taught Me Along the Way), Reichl examines her mom's old letters and explores her parent's ideas about young women (pretty is more important than smart) as well as her mother's bipolar disorder. Reichl talked to TIME about confessing dark secrets through memoir, why women should work and how the recession is affecting haute cuisine...
...very hard to not deal with any of my mother's emotional problems because I knew that they would embarrass her. She wasn't alive anymore, but still she was there in my head. But my editor said that I had to. I thought, "Well, hey, it's a memoir. All right. I'll confess she was bipolar." I felt bad about it. But you have to tell the truth and let the chips fall where they're going or not be a writer...
...only books I could find without a "sales rank" had gay content like mine.' CRAIG SEYMOUR, author of the memoir All I Could Bare, accusing online retailer Amazon.com of censoring gay- and lesbian-themed books...
Ballard met his late successes with a brisk, ironic air. His final book, a memoir, was full of warmth and kindness for the people around him, but this poet of the 20th century's dark side was a stoic figure; the visionary had his cult, but he had no equals...