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...went to Harvard Law School, spending most of three years in poorly lit libraries, poring through cases and statutes,” Obama wrote in his memoir, “Dreams from My Father.” “The study of law can be disappointing at times, a matter of applying narrow rules and arcane procedure to an uncooperative reality; a sort of glorified accounting that serves to regulate the affairs of those who have power—and that all too often seeks to explain, to those who do not, the ultimate wisdom and justness...
...recent favorite book jackets?The cover for James Frey's A Million Little Pieces. Since all that's happened with that book, the cover is the only aspect of it that has emerged with its dignity intact. The cover works regardless of whether it's a novel or a memoir or what have...
After the discussion, Wästberg returned to his former abode—Adams House, not Widener—for dinner and a reading from his memoir about his time at Harvard...
...life of a Hollywood producer is full of bizarre encounters with belligerent actors, eccentric directors, and hard-nosed executives, which makes for some odd-ball stories. Such stranger-than-fiction tales delighted readers in producer Art Linson’s 2002 memoir “What Just Happened?: Bitter Hollywood Tales From the Front Line.” Linson’s memoir serves as the backbone for director Barry Levinson’s movie “What Just Happened?” yet the stories fall short of entertaining once translated to the screen. “What...
...Lowdown: There are some who think that memoirs should be exciting, thrilling, full of tragedy or high comedy. John Grogan does not write those kind of memoirs. There are some who think that memoirs should look at the lives of screwed-up folk on their way down (who eventually pick themselves back up) as a way of peeking into a world not our own. John Grogan rejects that proposition outright. His two books operate under the premise that anyone's life is worthy of a memoir, no matter how boring or similar it is to everyone else's. Growing...