Word: memoirs
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Coates is a contributing editor for the Atlantic. His memoir, The Beautiful Struggle, was published...
...Gist:In 2002 Rice, the queen bat of vampire fiction, shed her fangs and began writing books (two so far) about the life of Jesus. This memoir is Rice's attempt to explain her return to Christianity, moving from the idyllic New Orleans of her 1940s childhood to the renunciation of her Catholic faith - indeed, of all faiths - during her student years and after in 1960s San Francisco. Rice's reminiscences about her ensuing atheist period and the success of her decidedly irreligious vampire novels are tinged with some sorrow; she moves earnestly on to the 90s, years in which...
...fuzzy. Yes, I can and will just take this puppy into my arms and love it. (Note: I will not actually take this puppy into my arms and love it—this is a bookstore, people, not a pet shop.) A BOLD FRESH PIECE OF HUMANITY: A MEMOIR by Bill O’Reilly I know what you’re thinking: Bill O’Reilly? Let me tell you, we’ve done the whole cute animal thing—twice—so it was about time for the cute kid thing, and Bill...
...futility and criminality of war. Her anti-war pieces, which were deemed anti-nationalistic, subsequently made her a target for Croatian media and political figures. Ugresicc eventually left Croatia in 1993. She categorized her works as “patchwork fiction,” a combination of personal memoir, critical commentary, and fiction. Ugresic also told the crowd that the “luggage of labels”—how she referred to the literary market’s tendency to label writers based on their nationality—bogs down literary text and its meaning. Identifying labels...
...Winfrey too said she didn't like being hemmed in by restrictions on what she could endorse, so in 2005, she announced her first contemporary pick in three years with A Million Little Pieces, James Frey's presumed memoir of addiction and recovery. Pieces sales skyrocketed, and while the attention undoubtedly padded Frey's pockets and those of his publishers, it also shone enough light on the controversial book that the author was forced to admit he had embellished and even made up some of its most compelling passages. Hell hath no fury, of course, like a TV megacelebrity scorned...