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Might our children be told amid their sobs how this war began? My Hiroshima, another searing picture-book memoir, is typical. It has this single sentence of historical context: "In the winter of my fourth year at school, a big war started...
...pretense and an openness to the freshest, smartest talent were the Vanguard's hallmarks from the beginning. Gordon, a Lithuanian immigrant with a degree in English literature from Oregon's Reed College, first envisioned a neighborhood hangout for bohemian intellectuals-"the kind of place," as he wrote in his memoir, where "when the conversation soared and bristled with wit and good feeling, perhaps a resident poet would rise and declaim some verses...
Ozick also read "A Drugstore in Winter," a memoir of her childhood in the Bronx in the 1930s...
According to Ozick's memoir, her first literary influences were traditional children's classics, not the Jewish sources that dominate her later writing...
...Lady in the Van," the centerpiece of Writing Home, is Bennett's memoir of a deranged woman who parked her car in his garden and stayed there for 15 years, until her death in 1989. If he did not always feel generous ("One seldom was able to do her a good turn without some thoughts of strangulation"), he always acted generously. To allow this radical intrusion in a quiet life seems the emblem of English accommodation. But, Bennett insists, "allow isn't quite the word. I was just faced with her-it was like Eleanor Roosevelt moving in! I just...