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...ve had some pretty awful luck with Christmas. What do you have planned this year? My partner and I have split after about a decade together. So there you go. It keeps going. But what I've found is these holidays that I always think are so horrible actually aren't quite that horrible. It's like when our house flooded [one Christmas]. The way our neighbor responded, it wasn't just that she helped. And it wasn't that she later brought over a basket of sandwiches. There was something nearly indescribable in the way that she offered herself...
Speaking of writing to process things, you're pretty unflinching. Is there ever something that just feels too personal? I have found that no matter what I've written, someone somewhere has come up to me and said, "Me too." The truth can be offensive, but it's always nourishing, in a way. You recognize it. You can feel it. And even if [readers] think, "My god, I would never get in those situations," within those ridiculous circumstances that I have created for myself, they know the way I respond is probably what they would...
...were falsified]. They must have had something in there that rang true to people, like good novels. I haven't even read any of those memoirs. I don't read memoirs. But if you write a memoir, I would think you'd want people to know, "O.K., look, I've taken some liberties here." It's just a matter of being open with your readers. (See the top 10 literary hoaxes...
...think you come under unfair scrutiny because of other memoirists who haven't told the truth? If I step outside myself, no. Let's face it: I've written six memoirs now, and I'm 44. That's a lot. And some might say I haven't had nearly as much happen to me as I've said in my memoirs. I can see how people would believe that. So I don't know that I would call it unfair. It has been irritating in the past because I have felt like, All right, I don't know...
...boxer, seems convinced - perhaps by the fans who still snap up his bobblehead dolls on eBay or stop him on the street to pose for pictures - that he can brawl his way back to respectability. "When the facts come out, the people will get it right," he says. "I've always trusted the people's good sense, and I've never lost an election." (Read a brief history of impeachment...