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...young man, J. Bryan III learned a great secret from Sherlock Holmes: the world's first consulting detective kept a "commonplace book," a volume in which he set down observations and literary snippets for future reference. That discovery prompted Bryan, 82, a veteran U.S. magazine editor and author -- his memoir, Merry Gentlemen (and One Lady), was published last year -- to compile a commonplace book of his own. In less skillful hands, the rubber , cement would have shown through. Hodgepodge, happily, is a literate, lifelong miscellany, illuminated with flashes of comedy...
...Angeles upbringing and concludes with Burnett landing her first big-time job. "It's not a show-business book," cautions the author. "It's an inventory -- my take on growing up." Burnett, who starred in last week's mini-series Fresno and has just finished a tour promoting her memoir, intends to start work with Hamilton next year on a book tentatively titled Under One Roof. It will be about their experiences while Hamilton was working to overcome her drug addiction, and they will write alternating chapters. The book "will be an account of a scared mother and a scared...
...tape and CD configurations, each of the three parts is like a self-contained concert, so it is not necessary to play the whole set straight through to pick up the momentum or feel the impact. But Springsteen is after more than just putting together a family album, a memoir of glory days. Live/1975-85 is the personal testament of a decade...
This troubled area was Soyinka's birthright. His parents, members of the Yoruba tribe in southwestern Nigeria, were also Christians and thus at some remove from the native life around them. In his memoir Ake: The Years of Childhood (1981), Soyinka portrays the divided realms of his early impressions: the beliefs handed down by his mother and father vs. the animism of village rituals, particularly the tradition of the egungun, the ancestral spirits who can be summoned whenever their masks are displayed at local festivals. For a time, the boy had the best of both worlds: the sensuous, + imaginative life...
...spoke out harshly whenever they seemed in danger of being compromised or betrayed. In 1967 he was arrested by the Nigerian government, charged with assisting the Biafran rebels in their struggle for a separate state and held for 22 months. Soyinka later recounted this ordeal in the scathing prison memoir The Man Died...