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...There is promise in her recollections, but they seem to stop there. Gornick never provides any quotes or passages from her book, and without a grounding in the text, her descriptions sound too theoretical and abstract. Gornick later describes a more successful attempt at personal narration—a memoir about herself as a child, her mother and a woman who lived next door to them. This attempt was more successful because she had begun to realize the importance of understanding just who was telling the story...
...book, “The Essay,” feels a bit removed from her theories about the connection between narrator and subject as she focuses so intensely on the works she is analyzing, but Gornick’s perceptive criticism and explication is fascinating nonetheless. In the memoir section, Gornick introduces more of her philosophy on the memoir, its definition and value. “Modern memoir posits that the shaped presentation of one’s own life is of value to the disinterested reader only if it dramatizes and reflects sufficiently on the experience of?...
...there's more on the way. Barbara Bush is writing a sequel to her popular 1994 best-selling memoir, this one on life after the White House. Hillary Clinton got an $8 million advance for her book, and some critics expect it will be far more interesting than Bill's. Meanwhile, a new museum for Mamie Doud Eisenhower is being completed in Broomfield, Colo.; PBS is toying with a series on White House partners; and there is talk of a television drama about a White House family that would center on a fictional First Lady. No doubt she will...
...tales of family life as one of six children is constantly wondering, Can that possibly be true? Does his father really hoard expired foodstuffs and eat them rotten? Is his brother Paul truly the profane white trash Sedaris describes? Could his mother have actually been that surly? Where other memoir writers, even the funny ones, slink to the sentimental, Sedaris heads the other way. And yet he portrays these characters with unjudging sympathy. He's tender about them...
...people that her Ph.D from the University of Chicago stands for Packinghouse Daughter. That?s what she is - the daughter of a retired Wilson & Company millwright in a meatpacking pant in Albert Lea, Minnesota. That?s also the name of her new book, "Packinghouse Daughter" (Perennial/HarperCollins; paperback), a splendid memoir of her family?s blue-collar life in the 1950s, and the 109-day strike that divided the town...