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...Right. Like many women, though, she couldn't find him. After dozens of failed attempts, Headley decided she needed to revise her dating strategy. So, she embarked on "The Year of Yes," vowing to go out with every person who asked her. The result is her witty, original memoir of the same name. And yes, this one is absolutely true...
...presidential signing statement to explain his actions is outrageous and contrary to the Constitution. No rational American wants the presidency to have such power. Mike Ford Austin, Texas, U.S. Andrew Sullivan's blog, the Daily Dish, can be found at time.com. Telling Stories your report "the trouble with memoirs" described the controversy over how much of author James Frey's "memoir," A Million Little Pieces, is made up and how much is real [Jan. 23]. Frey's shamelessness after being exposed for having embellished parts of the book is symptomatic of a much larger problem in American society. As your...
Your report "The Trouble with Memoirs" described the controversy over how much of author James Frey's "memoir," A Million Little Pieces, is made up and how much is real [Jan. 23]. Frey's shamelessness after being exposed for having embellished parts of the book is symptomatic of a much larger problem in American society. As your article pointed out, fiction doesn't sell nearly as well as nonfiction, and Frey couldn't find a publisher when he tried to market his work as fiction. So it was called nonfiction. Making a ton of money is apparently more important...
What Thompson calls “the most famous of all anthropodermic bindings” resides across the river at the Boston Athenaeum. The book, “The Highwayman: Narrative of the Life of James Allen alias George Walton,” is a memoir whose author lives on inside as well as on the book’s covers. Walton was impressed by the courage of a man whom he once attacked, and when Walton was facing execution, he asked to have his memoir bound in his own skin and presented to the brave...
Rich’s books will be published by the same company that printed the works of both his father and his mother, New York Times reporter Alex Witchel.* [SEE CORRECTION BELOW.] Frank Rich wrote a memoir, “Ghost Light,” and a collection of theatre criticism, “Hot Seat,” while Witchel penned a memoir, “Girls Only,” and a novel, “Me Times Three,” for the publishing company...