Word: memoirs
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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When I heard that Sarah Palin wrote her upcoming 400-page autobiography, Going Rogue: An American Life, in four months, I thought, What took her so long? To prove that introspection doesn't need to be time-consuming, I decided to try to write my memoir in one day. Since Palin had a ghostwriter, I figured it was only fair that I have help too, so I called Neil Strauss, who co-wrote the best-selling memoirs of Marilyn Manson, Mötley Crüe, Dave Navarro and Jenna Jameson. Strauss and fellow ghostwriter Anthony Bozza run an imprint called Igniter...
Strauss believes a good memoir starts with the most interesting point that's not obvious. "If I were doing the Palin book, you know it's going to have the nomination and the campaign, so I'd just start somewhere else entirely, like if she beat up a girl who talked dirt about her in school," he said. After choosing the shocking mullet beginning, we decided that our book, Rogue Journalist: An Even More American Life, would have the following chapters: 1) "Childhood Trauma," 2) "Turning Point That Changed My Life," 3) "Rise Against the Odds," 4) "Celebrity Name-Dropping...
...maybe hanging out with his subjects for months, reading through their e-mails and taping them for 20 hours is overkill. "I should have done all my books like this," he said. I get the weird feeling that Strauss is hoping a publisher will ask us to finish my memoir. Though I don't know, with our schedules, if we can find the seven hours...
...illegal and immoral war: she went on a search for the truth. Mullen, an Iowa homemaker who died on Oct. 2 at 92, spent more than two decades probing her son's death. In 1995 she published her findings in a book called Unfriendly Fire: A Mother's Memoir, which painted a scathing portrait of a U.S. military that stonewalled her efforts to investigate the episode. "I think she'll be remembered as somebody who asked a lot of questions, somebody who wouldn't take a pat answer," another son, John, told the Associated Press. Peg continued to oppose...
...write this kind of book - a sort of self-help memoir? It started with the fact that it was my very first week on The View and Barbara and Whoopi asked me if I thought the earth was round or flat. The response that came out was, "I don't know. I'm trying to take care of my son." I was really nervous. I was totally outside of my comfort zone, and I made a comment that I didn't mean to make. It was a brain fart. I did not know that people were going to hate...