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...many people willing to let us look? To understand, you need to first look away from television. (Oh, just for a minute. You can do it.) Our culture is deep into a populist period of personal confession, the First-Person Era. There's the unflagging craze for memoirs--especially ordinary people's tales of woe, like Frank McCourt's Angela's Ashes and Elizabeth Kim's story of orphanhood, Ten Thousand Sorrows. "I don't see any sign of them waning," says Jeff Zaleski, book-review editor of Publishers Weekly. "The high-profile memoirs by famous people haven't done...
Vengeance is sweet, but Experience (Hyperion; 406 pages; $23.95), Amis' riveting memoir of his troubled past, wastes little space settling old scores. "Why should I tell the story of my life?" he asks rhetorically at the outset, and answers immediately, "I do it because my father is dead now, and I always knew I would have to commemorate him. He was a writer and I am a writer; it feels like a duty to describe our case--a literary curiosity which is also just another instance of father...
...might seem fanciful, but for Park, who was raised in rural Lancashire, Chicken Run comes close to a childhood memoir. "My family had chickens," he says, "just as pets. They used to come into the porch and eat the food, like a dog really. Or they'd come in the house and steal things. We couldn't bear to eat them; they were characters. Then when I was 16 or 17, I had a summer job at a chicken-packing factory; we had to fold up plucked chickens and pack them in cellophane trays. I also did a day working...
...journalist, Brady was a line Marine lieutenant who had to keep his head down and his feet warm. He is now waging war on two fronts. His new novel, based on his Korean War experience, hits the racks at the same time as a reissue of his 1990 combat memoir, The Coldest War. Nearly 37,000 American troops died in Korea, where the winters were as deadly as the enemy. Both novel and memoir are graphic reminders of what has been called the Forgotten War. But not by Brady...
...rework Iran's system from within. It's an excruciatingly difficult way to be a reformer, fighting battles by not fighting battles. The pressures are exacting a toll. Chest pains sent him to the hospital recently. He winds down each night by scratching out a few pages of his memoir--in ink--at home. Khatami is a former Culture Minister and a onetime head of the national library. He is not a born politician. His colleagues speak of his "delicate sensibilities." They fear he might resign or refuse to run for a second four-year term next year...