He published a short memoir of Vincent soon after his death, and he published the letters that Vincent had written to him. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

Together they devised an elaborate life insurance fraud, which Mudgett described in his memoir. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

“But once a decision has been made, he has an equal obligation to carry it out with all his energy and wisdom,” the president wrote in his memoir. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

The counselor encouraged Shin to turn his therapeutic diary into the memoir that the Database Center published in Korean in 2007. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

“While I thought that the oath was an extremely unwise policy, the extent of my protest against it was to sign it on the last possible day,” he explained in his memoirs. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

But as a matter of legal reality, so various editors have told me over the years, my forensic memoir could never be published while my fellow criminals were alive. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

When Ivy told her about the idea, Mom had called it a graphic memoir. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

"A new world was coming—and I wanted to be part of it," Elizabeth said in her memoirs. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

The king was asleep, exhausted by the effort of writing his memoirs about the war. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

His memoir had flopped, about five hundred copies sold from a printing of three thousand. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

“I tried something similar a couple of months ago. I got him to start a memoir.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Even though in ELA, for our personal memoir project, Mr. Finkelman assigned Dante as my critique partner, which meant he had to read my first two paragraphs. Maybe He Just Likes You 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

However, it was his relationship with Lincoln that he treasured most, and his 1910 memoir provides a vivid insight into the journey to Richmond and the events of April 14. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

Still, the notion of a memoir kept coming back to her. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

Minnie showed “a remarkable aptitude for the work,” Holmes wrote in his memoir. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

“What type of memoir? Where do you put it in relationship to the other memoirs?” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Letters and memoirs of Confederate soldiers will reflect this dreadful campaign. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

The course of this central relationship is one that is hard to tease out of official investigations and even prisoner memoirs, but my sense is that it has evolved little, if at all. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

During the summer of his junior year he committed what he called, in his memoir, “the first really dishonest act of my life.” The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

“Stealing was always a problem,” Charles Robert Jenkins wrote in his 2008 memoir about forty years of living inside the country. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

This account Bilbo set down in his memoirs, and he seems never to have altered it himself, not even after the Council of Elrond. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

In a nineteenth-century memoir on an expedition in Africa, there is a story by David Livingston about his own experience of near-death. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

As he wrote in his memoir about his wayward youth, “Pot had helped, and booze; maybe a little blow when you could afford it.” The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

These memoirs were later added to and edited by other veterans. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

When I get home, I collect all my six-word memoirs and write one whole poem. Watch Us Rise 2019-02-12T00:00:00Z

The publication of Baker’s memoir provoked a great public demand for Stanton to produce the diary. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

Although it was not published while I was in prison, it forms the spine of this memoir. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“And for an example, I’ll share my six-word memoir first: poetry is my heart and mind. There, see how easy it is?” Watch Us Rise 2019-02-12T00:00:00Z

“Sometimes I dream that I’m writing a memoir. A memoir would be just the thing to keep me in the hearts and memories of my adoring public.” The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z

It was a radical shift from the kind of assignment that dominates high school writing instruction today, in which students are asked to write memoirs and personal reflections. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

Historians tend to discount Gorges’s tale, partly because his memoirs, dictated late in life, mix up details, and partly because the notion that Tisquantum was abducted twice just seems incredible. “utterly void,” Dermer reported. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

She wrote a memoir about her childhood called Period Piece, in which she described her grandmother Emma, her Darwin aunts and uncles, and Down House. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Holmes’s cell was furnished with a bed, a stool, and a writing table, upon which he composed his memoir. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

In his memoir about six years in two of the camps, Kim Yong, a former lieutenant colonel in the North Korean army, says the appeal of suicide was “overwhelming.” Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

Holmes inserted into his memoir a “prison diary” that he claimed to have kept since the day he arrived at Moyamensing. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

At the time Mudgett described this encounter in his memoir, he was sitting in a prison cell hoping to engineer a swell of public sympathy. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

After losing his entire fortune to bad investments in the early 1880s, he wrote his memoirs with the help of editor Mark Twain. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

One day, Kathy, Walter, and myself were talking in the courtyard when they suggested that I ought to write my memoirs. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I had daily to pass the office of one village doctor, the door of which was seldom if ever barred,” he wrote in a later memoir. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

The Klan Unmasked, Kennedy’s memoir of his exploits “inside” the Klan, is in fact more of a novelization than a straight nonfiction account. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

She even hoped to find a writer to work with her on a memoir. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

She wanted to stop by the library, too, to see if they had the new Jenny Lindt memoir... When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

“Let’s get started, shall we? I am eager to continue getting to know you, so let’s begin class today with the six-word memoir introduction.” Watch Us Rise 2019-02-12T00:00:00Z

But she doesn’t say anything, carries on through sushi about her latest project, pulling all her journals together into a memoir. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

In his own memoirs he had selected May 15, 1776, as the most decisive moment, because that was the day the Continental Congress passed a resolution calling for new constitutions in each of the states. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

We have enough documents, letters and memoirs to prove that World War Two was not caused by food shortages or demographic pressures. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

In his memoir Holmes contended that the news did shock him. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

He began earnestly trying to find a publisher for his memoir, hoping to get it quickly into print to help turn public opinion to his favor. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

In his memoirs, Reagan wrote, "I intended to let the Soviets know that we were going to spend what it took to stay ahead of them in the arms race." Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

As he wrote in his memoir, Long Road Home, he could never have escaped from Camp 14 because “the guards there acted as if they were on a war front.” Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

I’m crying and carrying a journal full of six-word memoirs—not cool. Watch Us Rise 2019-02-12T00:00:00Z

So while his words take us from Africa to the sugar islands, even his memoir does not take us to the fields. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

Great fodder for the memoir that I’ll never live to write. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

The prison’s most famous warden, Lewis Lawes, called his memoir Twenty Thousand Years in Sing Sing—the number referred to the sum of the length of sentences of all the inmates under his supervision. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Never Tell Our Business to Strangers was a memoir by a woman whose father lived on the run from the law. Turtles All the Way Down 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

Levi Burr, an inmate imprisoned for perjury, published a detailed memoir in 1833. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Suicide was not uncommon in the camp,” Kang Chol-hwan wrote in his memoir about the decade he spent inside Camp 15. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

Giulio Gatti-Casazza, the Met’s general manager at the time, wrote in his memoir that there was still talk of mines in the oceans. When Puccini Came, Saw and Conquered New York City 2018-11-16T05:00:00Z

Cheryl Strayed Cheryl Strayed’s new memoir, “Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Coast Trail,” however, pretty much obliterated me. Books of The Times: ?Wild? by Cheryl Strayed, a Walkabout of Reinvention 2012-03-27T15:51:40Z

Oates has contrasted her work to Joan Didion's award-winning memoir of widowhood, "The Year of Magical Thinking," which Oates has called "beautiful and elegiac," unlike the assault of grief in "A Widow's Story." Joyce Carol Oates writes memoir of grief 2011-02-11T13:01:04Z

So it's part cultural history, part memoir and part guide. The Art of Camping by Matthew de Abaitua - review 2011-07-06T09:00:01Z

She is working on a memoir and policy book about her years as secretary of state, Simon & Schuster told The Associated Press. Hillary Clinton Signs Book Deal 2013-04-04T08:33:31Z

This essay is an excerpt from her forthcoming memoir, “Come On In My Kitchens: The Hope of Jemima.” How the Women of the Jemima Code Freed Me 2020-06-18T04:00:00Z

The beauty of this memoir is not only in the compassion Kennicott ultimately finds for his mother and himself. Review | In ‘Counterpoint,’ a memoirist reflects on love, loss and Bach 2020-02-18T05:00:00Z

The memoir made the experience even more meaningful and made me appreciate Paula even more. Katie Couric Likes Books on Paper, and Articles Onscreen 2021-12-23T05:00:00Z

Over the past year or so, his memoir, “Words Without Music,” appeared, along with historic re-releases and a spate of new recordings by top-notch soloists. Taking Philip Glass to a place he need not go 2015-07-31T04:00:00Z

Part of it was that I didn’t think I was writing a memoir. Jessi Klein really wants you to get the epidural: “There’s pressure on all women that’s absurd” 2016-07-10T04:00:00Z

The memoir talks about your parents’ marriage a lot and the sort of family dynamic, but it focuses on your brother, who everybody believed was crazy. Autism in the insular world of ultra-Orthodox Judaism: “There were superstitions and things that God knows how many other mothers had to deal with” 2015-08-01T04:00:00Z

Lewis didn't apparently think so, suggesting in his memoir, Surprised By Joy, that his experiences at English boarding schools were worse than anything he went through in France. CS Lewis: A Life: Eccentric Genius, Reluctant Prophet by Alister McGrath – review 2013-05-08T09:00:04Z

Gekoski tells us again about that moment in 1824 when a cluster of Byron's friends burnt the poet's memoirs in an attempt to protect his posthumous reputation. Lost, Stolen or Shredded: Stories of Missing Works of Art and Literature by Rick Gekoski – review 2013-06-29T08:00:54Z

In her unpublished memoir, True charts her rise from working-class Newburyport, Mass., into the mysterious, swashbuckling universe of ancient art and, finally, into an Italian courtroom. One of the world’s most respected curators vanished from the art world. Now she wants to tell her story. 2015-08-19T04:00:00Z

Based on the events of the past three months, Ryan may well have some material for another memoir. When radio reporter April Ryan tangles with the White House, people listen 2017-04-03T04:00:00Z

This family memoir is a galvanizing account of how Greta Thunberg became the face of the youth climate movement, and the crises she faced at home. The most 2020 books of 2020 2020-11-18T05:00:00Z

Still, Barnett’s pluck will appeal to avid memoir readers, who will cheer her hard-won recovery, especially the steadfastness of her best friend, Josh. On the Path to Recovery, One Step at a Time Is Easier Said Than Done 2020-07-07T04:00:00Z

Her memoir, “No Walls and the Recurring Dream,” was released this spring. Ani DiFranco: ‘It was very hard in the beginning to put my inconvenient truths into song’ 2019-06-14T04:00:00Z

“I may be the most unknown famous person in America,” Spinney said in his 2003 memoir. Sesame Street puppeteer Caroll Spinney dies at age 85 2019-12-08T05:00:00Z

Admirers of her fiction will find much of this memoir to be not uninteresting. Books of The Times: A Novelist Wills Her Dream Home Into Being 2011-01-04T17:12:56Z

"We were the first gospel group to be allowed to bring a guitar into church," he claimed in his unpublished memoir. New book traces the Staples family's soulful journey and unique sound 2014-01-18T06:00:00Z

Schiaparelli’s words are from her memoir, “Shocking Life.” Schiaparelli and Prada Connected With Women?s Inner Feelings 2012-04-11T22:01:05Z

At the end of this memoir, she resolves “not to see myself through other people’s eyes,” and to trust her own more. Seeing the Art World Through Personal and Political Lenses 2018-06-20T04:00:00Z

“Extraordinary, Ordinary People” is instead an origins story, a minor-key memoir mostly about Ms. Rice’s upbringing in Birmingham, Ala., during the early years of the civil rights movement. Books of The Times: A Controversial Figure; Hold the Controversy 2010-10-12T17:03:00Z

The film, which uses the title of her memoir, will be screened on Feb. 5 at New York City's Athena Film Festival. Pivotal time for trans people as rigid notion of gender challenged 2015-01-30T05:00:00Z

Is the book, which is called a memoir, "true"? Tiger, Tiger by Margaux Fragoso ? review 2011-04-10T05:30:01Z

The memoir gets dark, covering loss, grief and loneliness. Duchess Goldblatt Is a Riddle, Wrapped in a Mystery, Inside a Twitter Account 2020-07-01T04:00:00Z

It doesn’t leap out of the box like a cat, the way Bob Dylan’s and Keith Richards’s memoirs do. Books of The Times: H?sker D? From the Inside, in a Memoir 2011-06-14T16:10:39Z

Her best book was "Red Azalea," a memoir of her experiences in Mao's China during the Cultural Revolution. 'Pearl of China': Anchee Min's version of the life of Pearl S. Buck 2010-04-07T22:30:00Z

There are well over 200 books and memoirs, several dozen documentaries and movies, novels and even a musical about Diana, with no sign of public interest abating. ‘The Crown’: What to Read and Watch About Diana 2020-11-17T05:00:00Z

Enter, then, into my reading nights this dark winter season three memoirs written by women who have in common their gender but little else. The Examined Life May Be More Worth Living. Reading About It Is Another Matter. 2019-02-01T05:00:00Z

My editor was joking that you took the title for my memoir. R.L. Stine reveals how Netflix's bloody "Fear Street" trilogy "loosened me up" 2022-09-04T04:00:00Z

Stories I Tell Myself” opens with a confession that you constructed the memoir based on memories, which are oftentimes unreliable. Hunter S. Thompson’s son shocker: “Hunter was surprised and pleased that I actually grew up apparently sane” 2016-01-03T05:00:00Z

The upstate city is where Twain wrote most of his best-known works, from his "Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" masterpiece to "Life on the Mississippi," a memoir of his days as a steamboat pilot. Holbrook performs in Mark Twain's beloved NY town 2010-04-22T01:08:00Z

In your memoir “And a Voice to Sing With,” you wrote that Woodstock and the ’60s were “over and will never return. I do not miss it.” Joan Baez on 3 Days of Pregnancy and Priggishness at Woodstock 2019-08-05T04:00:00Z

In her memoir, “Ordinary Light,” Smith remembers a fifth-grade textbook with an Emily Dickinson poem, “I’m Nobody! Who Are You?” that she memorized. In Her New Work, a Public Poet Balances the Personal and Political 2018-04-26T04:00:00Z

Without being a memoir, in this book, I do try to draw comparisons to my grandmother and my own mother. I want to sleep with the sexy millennial at Apple’s Genius Bar 2014-04-13T17:30:00Z

The lineup is heavy on fiction, memoir, fiction that behaves like memoir, and memoir that impersonates fiction. The Best Books of 2019 2019-12-02T05:00:00Z

When the pandemic curtailed her years of touring in 2020, Carlile completed her memoir, “Broken Horses,” and wrote songs with her band members in the compound they share in Washington state. Brandi Carlile, Larger Than Life and Achingly Human 2021-10-05T04:00:00Z

His belated memoir, “Every Last Tie: The Story of the Unabomber and His Family,” is remarkable for its slenderness, humility and tact. ‘Every Last Tie’ by David Kaczynski: a long-awaited look at the Unabomber 2016-01-28T05:00:00Z

They remain my two favorite memoirs by musicians. Kathy Valentine of the Go-Go’s Would Like to Talk to You About Memes 2020-03-31T04:00:00Z

He learned he had cancer while on a publicity tour in 2010 for his memoir, “Hitch-22,” and began writing and, on television, speaking about his illness frequently. Christopher Hitchens, 1949-2011: Christopher Hitchens Is Dead at 62 ? Obituary 2011-12-16T06:27:29Z

My forthcoming memoir, “Come On In My Kitchens: The Hope of Jemima,” is a love letter to them. How the Women of the Jemima Code Freed Me 2020-06-18T04:00:00Z

If this book is not appreciably better-written than most business stories — it’s not a literary memoir — it nonetheless really reverberates. In Her New Memoir, Ursula M. Burns Recounts Blazing a Trail to the Top of Xerox 2021-06-07T04:00:00Z

Burrough’s memoir is considered one of the best in the genre. 20 Years of L.G.B.T.Q. Lit: A Timeline 2017-06-23T04:00:00Z

“But somehow that insane, incurable, blinkered optimism that overtakes reason and leads otherwise normal men to stage musicals had wormed far too deep,” Lloyd Webber writes in his memoir, “Unmasked.” The Improbable Insanity of “Cats” 2019-12-16T05:00:00Z

Valmont is one of our great fictional seducers and Casanova — if we believe his memoirs — is our great factual one. A Conversation With: John Malkovich: John Malkovich on Casanova and Other Roles 2013-05-27T21:18:58Z

Now 17, Ms. Rips has written a memoir about her time there. Childhood Tales From the Chelsea Hotel 2016-07-16T04:00:00Z

Philip Pullman's book on life of Jesus prompts letters condemning him to 'eternal hell' More top stories Is the macho chef's memoir overcooked? Jonathan Kellerman's top 10 LA noir novels 2010-03-31T08:32:00Z

The "Memorias" manuscript consists of Carvajal's memoirs, a book of psalms and commandments, and a collection of prayers, Mexico's consulate in New York said. Earliest Jewish manuscript in New World to return to Mexico 2017-03-03T05:00:00Z

I was clearly going to have to go to some kind of therapy, like Neil did, to learn to do this memoir talk. The Art of the Boring Memoir 0002-11-29T05:00:00Z

Friern was once the largest asylum for the mentally ill in Europe, and it looked the part: “a B-movie image of a loony bin,” Taylor writes in “The Last Asylum,” her engrossing memoir. Historian recollects the demons of her own past in ‘The Last Asylum’ 2015-04-28T04:00:00Z

The memoir is full of such reversals of fortune. Nowhere man 2013-02-23T08:00:16Z

And when she explored her own origin story in the memoir "The Mistress's Daughter," she was just as unflinching and nuanced toward her birth parents — and herself — as she's ever been with her characters. A.M. Homes, too, has met this guy at a reading: “I don’t read books by women” 2018-06-11T04:00:00Z

Michael Bennett, the outspoken Seattle Seahawks football star, will publish a memoir titled “How to Make White People Uncomfortable” with Haymarket Books next year. Seattle Seahawks star Michael Bennett is writing a book: 'How to Make White People Uncomfortable' 2017-07-25T04:00:00Z

“Becoming,” a film based on her 2018 memoir of the same title, will be released on the streaming site on May 6. Michelle Obama’s Memoir ‘Becoming’ Will Be a Netflix Documentary 2020-04-27T04:00:00Z

Dismissing the part of Tony Blair’s memoir that deals with 9/11, Dr. Ghaemi writes: “To his credit, Blair maintains a somewhat open mind.” Books of The Times: What Befits a Leader in Hard Times? An Intimate Knowledge of Insanity 2011-08-10T21:05:51Z

In “Begin Again,” Glaude, the chair of the African-American Studies department at Princeton, explores the parallels between that period and our current moment, blending biography, memoir and cultural criticism. 7 New Books to Watch for in April 2020-03-25T04:00:00Z

Although she hasn’t released an album since “Banga” in 2012, she recently published “M Train,” a memoir that places domestic sketches between visits to the graves of writers like Rimbaud and Genet. Pop & Rock Listings for July 15-21 2016-07-14T04:00:00Z

Q: When you started the Bloggess, could you have imagined the accolades and best-selling memoirs? For author Jenny Lawson, life is brutal — and hilarious 2021-04-29T04:00:00Z

Many of the same objects will travel to the Jewish Museum in New York, but the exhibition is conceived and designed differently, hewing closely to Mr. de Waal’s memoir. Tracing a Family History Through the Journey of a Tiny Figurine 2021-10-21T04:00:00Z

You mentioned a lot of criticism about memoir, specifically about women writing it. "Everyone can and should get our own 'Predator,'" says writer who's watched film 146 times 2022-09-11T04:00:00Z

Valentine, who writes candidly about her journey and career in her new memoir "All I Ever Wanted," credits music with saving her throughout every phase of life — starting with the Beatles. Kathy Valentine of The Go-Go’s on her Beatles love and bass player parallels with Paul McCartney 2021-03-27T04:00:00Z

Like the memoir, it’s designed to provide a redemptive story to one of the most brutal wars of the past 20 years. Tales of shipwreck, war and nightclub dancers all at the National Book Festival

Dey Street Books announced Monday that the actor and comedian is working on a memoir scheduled to come out in fall 2015. Comedian David Spade has book due in 2015 2014-06-02T04:00:00Z

Despite this pedigree, the original memoir's problems had critics predisposed to approaching the film with wariness, and advance reviews have not been glowing. "Hillbilly Elegy" is "poverty-class cosplay" and "laughably bad" – reviews of Netflix's adaptations 2020-11-24T05:00:00Z

She soon learned that “everything concerning the Hill had mildly sexual connotations,” she recalls in her memoir. ‘Everything . . . had sexual connotations’: Being young, female and a reporter in the 1960s 2016-09-30T04:00:00Z

Now, Styron has written a memoir, “Beyond This Harbor: Adventurous Tales of the Heart.” Memoir of a ‘Very Large Life,’ With Poetry, Crusades and Glittering Names 2023-06-12T04:00:00Z

The National Book Award finalist’s spellbinding memoir hauntingly illustrates how a toxic relationship consumes the mind. 50 notable works of nonfiction in 2019 2019-11-19T05:00:00Z

Tyler had also expressed a desire to take a break so that he could write his memoir and focus on what he cryptically term "brand Tyler." Aerosmith, singer end feud for European tour 2010-02-25T20:40:00Z

Yet if McCabe has made mistakes, his basic decency shines through in this memoir. In ‘The Threat,’ Andrew McCabe Issues the Latest Warning Call About Trump’s America 2019-02-16T05:00:00Z

Part memoir, part history of British film-making and part blueprint for the future, Roeg's book is filled with fascinating observations. Trailer Trash 2013-07-06T23:07:00Z

Much of his memoir appeared in an article in the New Yorker three years ago. O mio babbino caro 2016-06-30T04:00:00Z

Mr. Iger is self-conscious about his memoir, confiding that “it feels to me a bit like a big ego trip.” The Slow-Burning Success of Disney’s Bob Iger 2019-09-22T04:00:00Z

“Who would play what and who would sing and who would write and who would produce the records was of keen interest to me,” Nesmith wrote in his 2017 memoir, “Infinite Tuesday: An Autobiographical Riff.” Perspective | Michael Nesmith invented country rock. Or maybe something even better. 2021-12-11T05:00:00Z

The memoir, by the acclaimed author of the short-story collection “Her Body and Other Parties”—which was a finalist, in 2017, for the National Book Award—chronicles Machado’s experience in a horrifying relationship. Carmen Maria Machado’s Many Haunted Stories of a Toxic Relationship 2019-10-31T04:00:00Z

Later, they read passages from a memoir in which she recalls her unhappy, wealthy childhood and her subsequent career. ‘The Disappearance of My Mother’ Review: Son’s View of a Model Parent 2019-12-05T05:00:00Z

Perhaps a memoir shouldn't read that way, shouldn't be so quick to sum up. Alice Sebold's "Lucky" and the problem with memoirs with happy endings 2021-12-05T05:00:00Z

His memoir, I Must Say: My Life as a Humble Comedy Legend, is out in November, and he’s earning huge buzz for playing a drugged-out dentist in the upcoming Paul Thomas Anderson film, Inherent Vice. Martin Short’s Big Fat Funny Autumn 2014-10-20T04:00:00Z

Taylor’s memoir is an admirable quest to answer a question that, for many children of parents who struggle against darkness, is almost unanswerable. Three New Memoirs Offer a Glimpse Into the Writer’s Mind 2020-08-07T04:00:00Z

It is based on Zelda la Grange’s memoir about rising from the role of typist for Mandela’s private secretary to Nelson’s private secretary during his presidency. New Nelson Mandela biopic to tell story of South African freedom fighter's years in power 2016-02-23T05:00:00Z

Now, 20 years later, she’s written a memoir in verse, “Shout,” which debuts this week at No. 4. Guilt, Jealousy, Empathy: Your Dog Has the Same Emotions You Do 2019-03-22T04:00:00Z

Though Salamon’s career as an author spanned fiction, memoir and children’s literature, she had no experience writing for the ear, a distinct form with unique qualities and constraints. A New Podcast Rekindles a Box-Office Bomb 2021-09-10T04:00:00Z

I realized that can be used as a compliment or a backhanded sort of insult, like, it's a poet's memoir. Maggie Smith on her memoir's unanswerable questions and feeling ambivalent about "Good Bones" 2023-04-13T04:00:00Z

In her second memoir, Chung looks at the politics of class, race and home. 19 Works of Nonfiction to Read This Spring 2023-03-10T05:00:00Z

She knows her memoir made her famous in a way her fiction never has. Julie Myerson: a life in writing 2013-03-22T17:17:00Z

You know, there's no dedication to this memoir. Maggie Smith on her memoir's unanswerable questions and feeling ambivalent about "Good Bones" 2023-04-13T04:00:00Z

Bolton’s memoir, “What Happened In the Room,” is expected next month. H.R. McMaster book `Battlegrounds’ coming out in April 2020-02-20T05:00:00Z

Mr. Eire’s memoir about his boyhood in Cuba and eventual exile won the National Book Award for nonfiction in 2003. Cuba: A Reading List 2014-12-18T05:00:00Z

Mr. Van Ness hopes to bring attention to what he calls “gorgeous beauty moments” like that with his memoir, especially misperceptions about being H.I.V. positive. Jonathan Van Ness of ‘Queer Eye’ Comes Out 2019-09-21T04:00:00Z

Wideman’s sixth collection erodes the boundaries between fiction, memoir and essay, often reanimating forgotten histories to help make sense of the present. 9 New Books We Recommend This Week 2021-12-16T05:00:00Z

This essay is adapted from the preface to “Fashion Climbing,” a posthumous memoir by the New York Times fashion photographer Bill Cunningham, to be published in September, by Penguin. Bill Cunningham Was So Alive 2018-09-05T04:00:00Z

And Wideman’s brother Robert is serving a life sentence in prison for murder, a situation Wideman grappled with in his tough-minded memoir “Brothers and Keepers.” In Stories About Slavery and Its Legacy, Hints of the Author’s Life 2018-04-13T04:00:00Z

Searching for a “memoir” on Amazon yields at least 130,000 hits. Transgender Teen Star Jazz Jennings Will Publish a Memoir 2016-01-26T05:00:00Z

Mr. Melnick often refers to the commentaries as oral histories; many read like tiny memoirs. Movie Theaters Documented on Cinema Treasures Site 2011-08-27T03:43:02Z

Sarah Hepola’s new memoir, “Blackout: Remembering the Things I Drank to Forget,” doesn’t escape this happy/sad fate. Review: Sarah Hepola’s ‘Blackout,’ on the Darkness That Took Over Her Life 2015-06-30T04:00:00Z

This volume, “J. D. Salinger: A Life,” which draws liberally from Salinger’s letters and a memoir by his daughter, Margaret, is flawed by a tendency to assume direct correspondences between the author’s life and work. Books of The Times: Peering Into A Reclusive Life 2011-02-10T15:17:01Z

Part memoir, part history lesson, the book takes readers through Pierce’s own connection to the city and his "role of a lifetime" in the HBO series "Treme." Wendell Pierce on the restorative power of art, his passion for New Orleans and his new book 2015-08-31T04:00:00Z

Taylor wrote in his memoir, “Private Domain,” that “Seven New Dances” put him on the map as a choreographer, distinct from his teacher, Graham, and his near contemporary, Merce Cunningham. The Everyday Avant-Gardist: Paul Taylor’s First Principles 2022-06-09T04:00:00Z

The memoir is a story about my childhood misadventures after being orphaned to cancer, aged nine. Remember the bad and the good times to build your future 2019-01-26T05:00:00Z

The most riveting section of Axelrod's memoir begins there, as Obama moves to Washington and gradually is drawn to running for president. Political consultant David Axelrod delivers in revealing 'Believer' 2015-02-16T05:00:00Z

This illustrated memoir offers an ambitious portrait of three generations of Jewish women. 10 New Books We Recommend This Week 2017-01-05T05:00:00Z

Turning personal experience into creative output is a recurring theme in Soloway's life, as evidenced by their new memoir “She Wants It: Desire, Power, and Toppling the Patriarchy.” Jill Soloway unpacks “white male liberal” Hollywood: “It’s patriarchy, even coming from t... 2018-10-20T04:00:00Z

I discovered the idea of tattoos as a form of healing in Geralyn Lucas’s memoir, Why I Wore Lipstick To My Mastectomy. ‘Instead of a scar, I had a piece of art’: women on their post-mastectomy tattoos 2018-09-22T04:00:00Z

Terry McDonell’s new memoir, “The Accidental Life: An Editor’s Notes on Writing and Writers,” isn’t bitter at all. Review: In ‘The Accidental Life,’ Golfing on LSD Is Just Part of an Editor’s Job 2016-07-19T04:00:00Z

If, on the other hand, you thought the original was self-indulgent sop — an insufferable memoir by a privileged woman with first-world problems — we should talk. ‘Eat Pray Love Made Me Do It’: Really? We need to talk. 2016-03-22T04:00:00Z

Declining to address this contradiction, Moon also ignores the unusual childhood and surprising beliefs described in Reddy’s 2006 memoir, never mind her artistic process. ‘I Am Woman’ Review: Singing Against Sexism 2020-09-10T04:00:00Z

Sotomayor’s previous works include such bestsellers as the memoir “My Beloved World” and the picture books “Just Ask!: Be Different, Be Brave, Be You” and “Turning Pages: My Life Story.” Sotomayor’s picture book ‘Just Help!’ coming in January 2021-09-24T04:00:00Z

That rule applies to writers too, especially to those who would write food memoirs. ‘Yes, Chef,’ by Marcus Samuelsson 2012-06-26T12:37:23Z

It’s worn by a gay serial killer in “Proud Flesh,” a teen slasher flick based on a memoir by a survivor of a gay conversion camp. How to survive a summer at gay conversion camp 2017-05-12T04:00:00Z

Idiosyncratic and biased, obfuscatory and boastful, even unctuous and vain, the Hollywood memoir is not going to portray the past in a clear light. The guilty pleasure of reading Hollywood memoirs 2017-06-29T04:00:00Z

In the wake of all this, Tamblyn wrote a book called "Era of Ignition: Coming of Age in a Time of Rage and Revolution," which is part memoir, part manifesto, and part call to action. How actress Amber Tamblyn defines her own role in a post-Weinstein world 2020-02-22T05:00:00Z

More than a retelling of Vassily’s story, “Young Heroes” is a memoir of Halberstadt’s family and the country where he was born — a loving and mournful account that’s also skeptical, surprising and often very funny. Writing a Family Memoir When Your Grandfather Was Stalin’s Bodyguard 2020-03-11T04:00:00Z

The Guardian report further details Harry's recollection of the incident, adding specific quotes and Harry's narration from the memoir. William "came at me": Harry details getting knocked down in violent attack by brother 2023-01-05T05:00:00Z

“I was at ground zero,” Herb tells us from prison where he’s composing this memoir, like so many other members of the Trump White House Alumni Felon Association. Review | Christopher Buckley’s ‘Make Russia Great Again’ is the Trump satire we’ve been waiting for 2020-07-06T04:00:00Z

Clinton was there to talk about “Hard Choices,” a memoir of her four years in global diplomacy. Hillary Clinton and Lissa Muscatine: From first lady and speechwriter to author and bookseller

The film is an adaptation of Mr. Barris’s 1984 memoir of that name, in which he said he moonlighted as an assassin for the Central Intelligence Agency while chaperoning couples from “The Dating Game.” Jim Lange, Genial Host of ‘Dating Game,’ Dies at 81 2014-02-28T04:17:53Z

The book he spends his days writing is not a memoir, precisely. Pete Hamill ‘Ain’t Done Yet’ 2019-11-26T05:00:00Z

“I was never promoting a movie,” he writes in his new memoir, “Will.” Review | In Will Smith’s memoir, the superstar is self-deprecating but ultimately invincible 2021-11-05T04:00:00Z

The memoir, published by Walker & Company and with a blurb by Elie Wiesel, is called “I Shall Not Hate: A Gaza Doctor’s Journey on the Road to Peace and Human Dignity.” Believing in Peace, Even After the Unthinkable 2011-01-22T00:26:37Z

Her survival strategies recall Mandela's disciplined prison regime in his memoir Long Walk to Freedom. A Long Walk Home by Judith Tebbutt – review 2013-07-27T14:00:00Z

Beau, the golden boy who would have been, by many standards, easy to love — who “had all the best of me, but with the bugs and flaws engineered out,” as Biden wrote in his memoir. Perspective | Joe Biden, Hunter Biden and the politics of unconditional love 2020-10-24T04:00:00Z

It permeates this, his posthumous memoir, “Fashion Climbing,” which covers the years Bill worked in fashion, before he picked up a camera. Bill Cunningham Was So Alive 2018-09-05T04:00:00Z

Pressley’s statement says Johnson is benefiting financially from sharing her story, which she told on several media shows and included in her recent memoir. Bill Cosby Sues Accuser Beverly Johnson for Defamation 2015-12-21T05:00:00Z

Rielle Hunter details their phone call just days before his indictment in her new memoir, purchased by The Associated Press ahead of its release. Rielle Hunter's memoir details affair, aftermath 2012-06-17T16:56:08Z

These consolidate but don’t greatly extend her reputation; neither quite makes the claims on you that the memoirs do. Tove Ditlevsen’s Fiction Is Bleak and Claustrophobic — Mostly in a Good Way 2022-04-11T04:00:00Z

“When I was born, Orwell was 23; when he died, I was that age,” Professor Davison wrote in a brief memoir on the Orwell Society website. Peter Davison, Orwell Scholar on a Monumental Scale, Dies at 95 2022-09-15T04:00:00Z

Working Title Films, which made rom-coms like “Notting Hill,” “Bridget Jones’s Diary” and “Love Actually” — acquired the film and TV rights for the memoir in 2017, when the book was still at the proposal stage. Dolly Alderton Gives Female Friendship the Rom-Com Treatment 2022-08-12T04:00:00Z

His father, known on the street as Louis the Gimp, favored sharkskin suits and Stetson hats, had ties to the local Jewish mob and ran an illegal bookmaking operation, according to Mr. Blavat’s memoir. Jerry Blavat, D.J. Who Channeled the Soul of Philadelphia, Dies at 82 2023-01-27T05:00:00Z

She and her partner are raising their three children, and she also is writing a memoir about self love and acceptance as she raises her mother’s youngest child as her own. Perspective | My mother was in prison while I was in college. Two months before I graduated, she was released to me. 2019-05-28T04:00:00Z

Ms. Canedy’s memoir, “A Journal for Jordan,” was adapted into a movie, which was directed by Denzel Washington and released last year. Dana Canedy, Publisher of Simon & Schuster’s Flagship Imprint, Has Left the Job 2022-07-19T04:00:00Z

The often-staid White House memoir genre gets a fresh, funny, candid boost from this addictably readable account by one of President Obama’s stenographers, who turns out to be a skilled writer as well. 7 New Books We Recommend This Week 2018-07-19T04:00:00Z

The biggest book of the summer isn’t a blockbuster thriller or a splashy celebrity memoir. ‘Harry Potter and the Cursed Child’ Goes From Stage to Page on Saturday at the Witching Hour 2016-07-29T04:00:00Z

The statement’s appeal to family loyalty, to closing ranks, underscores what is implicit throughout this memoir: the tantalizing possibility that Jobs’s cruelties also manifested his love. “Small Fry,” Reviewed: Lisa Brennan-Jobs’s Mesmerizing, Discomfiting Memoir 2018-09-06T04:00:00Z

As much as telling the story of his life, the memoir offers wisdom for others hoping to follow his path. Hollywood mogul recalls Elvis, Sinatra in new memoir 2010-04-06T12:41:00Z

Obama told me that he was quite conscious of the great tradition of African-American memoir and knew that he had a more modest story to tell. The invention of Obama 2010-04-23T23:06:00Z

In her forthcoming memoir, Paradoxical Undressing, she describes the sound in her head as, "a metallic whining, like industrial noise… layered with humming tones and wind chimes". Kristin Hersh 2010-07-24T23:04:00Z

No matter how funny this “memoir” may be, Andersen is dead serious about the president’s weaknesses. How does Alec Baldwin’s Trump impression sound on the page? Yuuge! 2017-11-05T04:00:00Z

“Orange Is the New Black” is loosely based on a memoir by Piper Kerman, a Smith College graduate from a patrician family who served 13 months in a Connecticut federal correctional institution on drug-related charges. ‘Orange Is the New Black’ offers fans a way to give back 2019-07-25T04:00:00Z

Ms. Fei starts her memoir at its natural beginning, which at the time felt as unnatural as any beginning could be. Review: In ‘Girl in Glass,’ Deanna Fei Shares Her Baby’s Struggles 2015-12-13T05:00:00Z

His engaging 2006 memoir "White Bicycles," the basis of the current tour, is filled with accounts of cult figures and open-minded principles that inspired Hitchcock, whose own work draws from the era's surrealist vibes. Looking at, listening to 1967's London scene 2011-03-20T12:45:00Z

At their worst, there’s little to distinguish poorly conceived memoirs from the kind of thing better suited for a mental health professional. The Examined Life May Be More Worth Living. Reading About It Is Another Matter. 2019-02-01T05:00:00Z

In his memoir, he posed a question about his life’s work, then answered it: Gene Wilder Dies at 83; Star of ‘Willy Wonka’ and ‘Young Frankenstein’ 2016-08-29T04:00:00Z

Some of these memoirs are mainly stories of hope, of fighting crowned with triumph. Review | ‘Live, friends. Just live,’ a writer urges us in a memoir published after her death 2019-02-05T05:00:00Z

There are two ways to describe Annie Proulx’s memoir, “Bird Cloud,” an account of her Sisyphean struggle to build her dream house on a remote and striking 640-acre stretch of land in Wyoming. Books of The Times: A Novelist Wills Her Dream Home Into Being 2011-01-04T17:12:56Z

This is how "literary memoir" should be defined - not as a fake autobiography, but as a personal account of reading books that matter. Review: Author tells of reading Jane Austen 2011-05-03T12:10:21Z

The Circle was the first fictional work by Eggers, best known for his memoir A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius. Emma Watson to Star With Tom Hanks in 'The Circle' 2015-06-24T04:00:00Z

The move is well timed for her to promote a new memoir: “Make Trouble: Standing Up, Speaking Out, and Finding the Courage to Lead — My Life Story,” which Touchstone will publish in April. Cecile Richards on Her Life After Planned Parenthood 2018-01-26T05:00:00Z

Certainly this isn’t a cinema that jibes with what, in his 2007 memoir “Dreams From My Father,” Mr. Obama called “the fluid state of identity.” Film: Hollywood?s Whiteout Year: Few Blacks on Silver Screen 2011-02-12T06:53:01Z

She wrote an unsuccessful novel and her own very successful memoir, "Gypsy," on which the Broadway play of the same name was based. 'American Rose': Baring the dark side of the dazzling life of Gypsy Rose Lee 2011-01-27T20:59:06Z

Allman began assembling notes for a memoir back in the 1980s and worked at it sporadically over the years. Love, family, drugs: Gregg Allman tells it all 2012-05-07T13:12:48Z

Since November, Smith’s memoir, “Will,” has been one of the most popular books in the country. The Slap Wasn’t the Only Astonishing Thing About the Oscars 2022-03-29T04:00:00Z

Last fall, her first book topped nonfiction charts in France for six weeks in a row — dislodged only by the appearance of the first volume of Barack Obama’s memoirs. A YouTuber Shoots to Literary Fame in France, Ruffling Feathers 2021-02-03T05:00:00Z

How, then, should I preserve the bombastic self-importance of my own life, but with a memoir in which I outshine every intellectual of the 20th century? Hitch-22 by Christopher Hitchens 2010-05-17T22:00:00Z

As Hallberg reveals in his candid and engrossing memoir, “A Body of Work,” he effectively went into hiding on the other side of the globe. Review | He was one of the world’s greatest ballet stars. Then he crashed. 2017-11-15T05:00:00Z

Folksy without being prissy, Burnett has already written three memoirs, including a tribute to her eldest daughter, Carrie, who died of cancer at 38. Amy Schumer and Carol Burnett Tell Their Stories 2016-11-17T05:00:00Z

He recalls Uncle Eldridge, a figure from his earlier memoir, “The Afterlife,” who before dying of alcohol poisoning pinned the child Donald to a bed. Review | Donald Antrim’s ‘One Friday in April’ is a vital book about mental illness and recovery 2021-10-21T04:00:00Z

And she was reading a lot of memoirs by women who’d gone through their own major life crises. Susan Coll continues to skewer life in D.C.’s suburbs in her new book ‘The Stager’

“I love to read addiction memoirs,” she says. Patricia Lockwood likes to write in bed. 'Priestdaddy' is her memoir 2017-04-28T04:00:00Z

He has now laid out the details of his compelling story in the new memoir, "Great Falls, MT: Fast Times, Post-Punk Weirdos, and a Tale of Coming Home Again." Why Reggie Watts learned to be funny 2023-10-25T04:00:00Z

Her memoir describes uncovering the conspiracy against her father as a loss of innocence. Aminatta Forna: a life in writing 2013-05-03T17:00:02Z

Thomas Chatterton Williams is the author of a memoir, “Losing My Cool,” and a contributing writer at The Times Magazine. Does Our Cultural Obsession With Safety Spell the Downfall of Democracy? 2018-08-27T04:00:00Z

Not at all the imposter she labels herself in her new memoir "Unreliable Narrator." "True equality is embracing mediocrity": Aparna Nancherla on imposter syndrome and fear of failure 2023-10-01T04:00:00Z

"I began to recognise that I was hearing a voice that was me but that wasn't me," she wrote in her 2001 memoir, Life Itself!. 'A complicated hoot' 2011-08-26T21:55:05Z

It is based on the avowedly true-life memoir of a woman who came to Vegas looking to be nothing more than a cocktail waitress and wound up deeply involved with the scary/thrilling high-rollers. Every Stephen Frears film – ranked! 2020-04-16T04:00:00Z

“There were two very distinct voices going on in my head and I moved easily between them,” Mr. Myers wrote in his memoir, “Bad Boy,” which came out in 2001. Walter Dean Myers, children’s author, dies at age 76

Raven’s memoir might help, which finds her after she completed a Ph.D. in biology, deeply alone in rural Montana — until she is visited by a persistent fox. Summer Is Coming. Bring a Book. 2021-05-19T04:00:00Z

In his memoirs, Permission to Speak, he described how he embraced fascism briefly while at public school in the 1930s. Obituary: Clive Dunn 2012-11-07T16:22:33Z

Last year, he collaborated with Giffords on the memoir "Gabby: A Story of Courage and Hope," which told of her recovery from a shooting. Gabby Giffords' husband writing children's book 2012-02-20T23:09:09Z

That memoir was a fascinating document — shrewdly evasive yet occasionally revealing. ‘Created Equal’ Review: A Justice of Few Words Finds His Voice 2020-01-30T05:00:00Z

Those sources would become more explicit in the later phase of his career — in “So Long, See You Tomorrow,” the stories in “Billie Dyer” and in “Ancestors,” the only official memoir in Maxwell’s corpus. In William Maxwell’s Fiction, a Vivid, Varied Tableau of Midwestern Life 2021-08-23T04:00:00Z

In your memoir, you spoke about him as your greatest lover but your time with him was torturous. Q&A: Rita Moreno on finding self-worth and never giving up 2021-06-15T04:00:00Z

Now in its 16th year, Fall for the Book includes authors in a wide variety of subjects, including memoir, science, education and history. Nearly 150 writers will be at this year’s Fall for the Book

But when Styron had depression in the 1980s she was a stalwart helpmate in his recovery, and encouraged him to write “Darkness Visible,” the memoir that has become one of his best known works. ‘In the Company of Rose’ Review: A Singular Woman and a Life Well Lived 2023-06-29T04:00:00Z

He didn’t speak much, but he did exude a kind of fatherly benevolence, as he does in some of the bride’s memoirs. The Writer Anne Lamott Gets to the Happily-Ever-After Part 2019-04-26T04:00:00Z

It contains prose and verse; polemic and introspection; remixed pop lyrics and pellucid memoir; straightforward narration and constellated word games. An Arab-American Poet Asks What It Means to Belong to Two Cultures, or None 2019-03-20T04:00:00Z

The six-part “Pistol” is based on the memoir “Lonely Boy: Tales from a Sex Pistol” by the band’s guitarist, Steve Jones. Rock ’n’ Roll Swindles, Revisited 2022-05-30T04:00:00Z

What distinguishes his memoirs is a lack of malice," wrote the Spectator's Paul Johnson of Memoirs by William Rees-Mogg: "There are no unpleasant stories. Book reviews roundup 2011-07-15T21:55:13Z

Cheryl Strayed is already something of a phenomenon in the US, where her hiking memoir, Wild, held the No 1 spot on the bestseller list for seven consecutive weeks last year. Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life from Someone Who's Been There by Cheryl Strayed – review 2013-04-28T07:30:01Z

Fans began lining up shortly after 7 a.m. outside the Books-A-Million in McLean for the chance to buy an autographed copy of Bush's new memoir, "Spoken from the Heart." Laura Bush kicks off book tour in northern Va. 2010-05-04T21:16:00Z

The book tour for the paperback edition of my memoir, “Little Failure,” commences. On the Road with “Little Failure” 2014-10-16T04:00:00Z

Michelle Obama’s memoir, “Becoming,” which officially published today, is the No. 1 best seller on Amazon under the category of Biographies & Memoirs > Professionals & Academics > Lawyers & Judges. Michelle Obama’s ‘Becoming’ Finally Hits Shelves 2018-11-13T05:00:00Z

But as her father did in his own memoir, “The Night of the Gun,” Carr doesn’t shy away from darker truths. Erin Lee Carr on Father-Daughter Joys and Struggles 2019-04-06T04:00:00Z

But context, emotion, bringing in my own family background and making it a personal memoir — balancing all those things had to come in stages, one thing at a time. Tell Us 5 Things About Your Book: A Journalist Recalls the Terror (and Boredom) of Being Held Hostage 2018-11-18T05:00:00Z

“Fire Shut Up in My Bones,” is based on the memoir of the same title by Charles M. Blow, an Op-Ed columnist for The New York Times. This Summer, Opera Grapples With Race 2019-05-30T04:00:00Z

Vance's memoir "Hillbilly Elegy" was released, and then it was announced that Reba McEntire was slated to star in a "Fried Green Tomatoes" television series, which will be directed by Norman Lear. From "Hillbilly Elegy" to "Fried Green Tomatoes," Hollywood has a rural perception problem 2020-10-22T04:00:00Z

Over the course of the year that the memoir chronicles, these expected endings are in turn “unveiled to reveal the worst-case scenario.” Review | Single, 40 and childless: Why is that still a problem? 2018-07-05T04:00:00Z

The end result memorably splits the difference between memoir and business journalism, and is likely the sole place to find equally probing discussions of freight train-hopping and nonprofit incorporation. Five Art Books to Read This Summer 2020-05-21T04:00:00Z

Burton’s memoir is valuable because she goes beyond simply confessing her shame; she rakes herself over the coals, and in doing so she models how anger can be used to clarify a story. She Ate and Ate, and Never Felt Satisfied 2020-06-23T04:00:00Z

Janet Groth acknowledges up front the main question her new memoir raises: Why did such a bright, intellectually sophisticated, aspiring writer spend 21 years behind a receptionist's desk? 'The Receptionist:' an extra-literary education at The New Yorker 2012-07-03T21:01:06Z

This is not a traditional memoir but a meditation on old age and memory. What Old Age Is Really Like 2015-10-01T04:00:00Z

He wrote twice about his exploits: in 1940, in a collection of letters received, and, more fully, in 1955, in a memoir called “Gentlemen for Rent.” Ted Peckham's 'Gentlemen For Rent' 2014-07-01T04:00:00Z

Her role in Star Wars would follow in 1977 – the experience she recently detailed in memoir, The Princess Diarist. Carrie Fisher, Celebrated 'Star Wars' Actor, Dies at 60 2016-12-27T05:00:00Z

It was named for the memoir by Joyce Carol Oates chronicling the author’s childhood obsession with a troubled girl. An Artist Who Champions and Channels Female Voices 2018-09-13T04:00:00Z

In a 2008 memoir, “Pieces of My Heart,” which portrays Lana in a largely unfavorable light, Mr. Wagner made an issue of her selling the clothing at a secondhand store. Lana Wood, Natalie’s Little Sister, Has Plenty to Say 2019-08-03T04:00:00Z

In his memoir, “Portrait of an Addict as a Young Man,” Bill Clegg describes the few times he tried to prepare his own crack. Books of The Times: ?Portrait of an Addict as a Young Man?: a Memoir by Bill Clegg 2010-06-15T23:13:00Z

He published a memoir, originally titled “Talk Talk” and later revised and reissued as “Beyond the Garage,” and began performing again with a new version of the Bonniwell Music Machine. Sean Bonniwell, Singer in the Music Machine, Dies at 71 2011-12-30T00:25:56Z

Convention organizers ReedPop told The Associated Press on Monday that “Daily Show” host and best-selling memoir writer Trevor Noah will be a featured speaker at the May 31 event. Trevor Noah among featured speakers at BookExpo breakfast 2018-02-26T05:00:00Z

This memoir begins when its author was four. Bill Cunningham, Style Maven, Leaves Behind a Memoir and It’s ‘a Real Dilly’ 2018-08-20T04:00:00Z

In his memoirs, one prominent United States ambassador to India said that the country gave Dean Acheson, Truman’s secretary of state, “the creeps.” India and the United States: Two Countries That Can’t Live With Each Other or Without Each Other 2022-07-11T04:00:00Z

She studied anthropology and did research in Greece, a country where she later settled and described insightfully and at times lyrically, both in fiction and memoir. Pride and promiscuity 2015-03-19T04:00:00Z

But Ms. Lewis revealed the story of her parentage in her own memoir, “Uncommon Knowledge,” in 1994. Judy Lewis, Secret Daughter of Hollywood, Dies at 76 2011-12-01T03:50:26Z

Ms. Rosenthal also published two volumes of memoirs — one in the format of an encyclopedia, the other as if it were a textbook. Amy Krouse Rosenthal, author of best-selling children’s books, touching farewell essay, dies at 51 2017-03-14T04:00:00Z

These passages about their personal, sexual and creative collaboration are among the memoir’s most revealing, which is saying a lot for a memoir that’s already so revealing it’s borderline graphic. Three New Memoirs Offer a Glimpse Into the Writer’s Mind 2020-08-07T04:00:00Z

According to the author’s memoir, Salman’s father changed the family name to Rushdie “because he respected Ibn Rushd for being at the forefront of the rationalist argument against Islamic literalism in his time.” Salman Rushdie’s new novel is a swirling tale of genies and geniuses 2015-09-01T04:00:00Z

While some of his fellow actors were busy writing memoirs, Gene Hackman was working on his first solo novel. 'Payback at Morning Peak': Actor Gene Hackman revisits the West ? as a writer 2011-07-31T04:10:29Z

In a 2001 memoir he described his early life as the story of the separate but entwined legacies of being English and being Jewish, hence his title A Double Thread. John Gross obituary 2011-01-11T18:09:15Z

The narrator, who is the supposed “author” of the book before us — a memoir of his deeds as a stalker — befriends us. A Psychological Thriller Asks, Are We All a Little Stalker-ish? 2018-08-29T04:00:00Z

So, she’s telling it herself, bringing her voice to an international stage in the United Arab Emirates and speaking about her recently published memoir. Huma Abedin steps out, brings her memoir to Abu Dhabi 2022-03-07T05:00:00Z

“The America I’d dreamed of through the ’60s seemed like a bad joke,” she wrote in her 1991 memoir, “with Nixon in the White House and the black revolution replaced by disco.” Review: ‘What Happened, Miss Simone?’ Documents Nina Simone’s Rise as Singer and Activist 2015-06-23T04:00:00Z

Q: You are a self-proclaimed lover of memoirs and biographies. Gabrielle Union wants to talk about the tough stuff. You ready? 2021-09-16T04:00:00Z

He decided to avoid burdening him with those kinds of questions, and instead relied on the memoir, other accounts of the detainee experience there and putting himself “as close as possible to the real conditions.” Tahar Rahim breaks out in Guantanamo drama ‘The Mauritanian’ 2021-02-09T05:00:00Z

Photograph: Saul Loeb/AFP/Getty Images Hillary Clinton's memoir about her time as US secretary of state is set to be one of the biggest political books of next year, according to booksellers. Hillary Clinton memoir could be 'huge', say booksellers 2013-04-05T15:15:11Z

Among the beautiful people taking the stage are the supermodels Cindy Crawford, who will celebrate the release of her new memoir on Sept. 29, and Imam, who makes an appearance on Sept. 8. Jonathan Franzen and Mavis Staples Among Highlights at 92nd Street Y 2015-07-22T04:00:00Z

This impressionistic memoir by an overlooked Italian writer — the child of a Christian mother and a Jewish father killed in the Holocaust — is seen as her masterwork. New & Noteworthy, From Trans Parenting to Poe’s Science 2021-06-15T04:00:00Z

He isn’t a bookworm, he’s a bookaholic, and in his latest memoir, “We Should Not Be Friends,” he seems to be admitting he has a problem. An Unlikely College Bromance That Has Lasted a Lifetime 2023-02-21T05:00:00Z

The soaring “Ring of Keys” may be the most beloved song from the graphic memoir adaptation “Fun Home.” 5 Key Songs From Jeanine Tesori’s Songbook 2021-12-29T05:00:00Z

His dry and occasionally self-abasing memoir, published in 1995, traced his uncertain path to the top tier of Britain's literary firmament. Literary critic Frank Kermode dies in England 2010-08-18T19:23:00Z

I'm a big fan of Groskop's journalism and the premise of this memoir – an amateur does 100 standup gigs in 100 days – is too intriguing to resist. Best holiday reads 2013 2013-07-14T07:00:00Z

It’s neither accomplished enough to ascend into the ranks of memorable literary memoirs nor irreverent enough to qualify as a delicious celebrity tell-all. ‘Stories I Tell Myself: Growing Up With Hunter S. Thompson’ review 2015-12-21T05:00:00Z

A memoir had long seemed a natural and in 1999 he signed with PublicAffairs to write one, its working title the more businesslike "Agents' Fees." A memoir by Kerouac's agent, Sterling Lord 2013-01-24T13:11:12Z

Nobody describes the passionate bond between mothers and daughters more brutally, or with more honesty, intelligence and style, than Vivian Gornick in her memoir “Fierce Attachments.” A Man in a Cafe Asked Julie Otsuka What She Was Reading. They Dated for Two Years. 2022-02-17T05:00:00Z

It seems they’ve been replaced, improbably perhaps, by mothers, if this vertiginous pile of memoirs and novels on my desk is any indication. In a Raft of New Books, Motherhood From (Almost) Every Angle 2018-04-24T04:00:00Z

Five years ago the distinguished American writer Joan Didion published a memoir called The Year of Magical Thinking. The Widow's Tale by Mick Jackson 2010-04-09T23:07:00Z

With regular echoes of Thomas Hardy, this quiet, unshowy, book proves that novels can tell truths that are deeper and truer than the mere fact of memoir. Grace and Mary by Melvyn Bragg – review 2013-05-19T11:00:03Z

But her memoir, “Dancing Through It: My Journey in the Ballet,” does not skimp on what she calls “the crazy side of ballet.” Books of The Times: Jenifer Ringer and Misty Copeland Have New Memoirs 2014-03-16T21:00:25Z

Her memoir is both a mediation on “a complicated nostalgia” for the faith of her childhood and an intellectual biography of Chambers. Paperback Row 2018-02-02T05:00:00Z

Some of the sorrow in that memoir seeps over into “Bowlaway.” Elizabeth McCracken’s First Novel in 18 Years Has Whimsy to Spare 2019-02-04T05:00:00Z

“How to Be Loved” is a memoir for the digital age, written briskly, almost like Facebook posts, with a sort of cheery brutality. Three Stunning New Memoirs of Love and Loss 2019-03-01T05:00:00Z

“I reached for the doorbell,” Mr. Branden later wrote in a 1989 memoir, “knowing without words and with irresistible certainty that nothing was ever going to be the same again.” Nathaniel Branden, lover and disciple of novelist Ayn Rand, dies at 84 2014-12-09T05:00:00Z

Overall, Wilson's memoir offers the reader valuable insights into the Islamic faith. 'The Butterfly Mosque': Learning to live with love and Islam 2010-06-09T23:48:00Z

“I suppose that to a degree I fell in love with him,” he wrote in a published memoir. Samuel Steward?s Life in ?Secret Historian? 2010-07-26T00:00:00Z

Maybe it was that this longing for home — a core sentiment of Shadid's memoir — seems such a mystery to me. 'House of Stone': a vagabond reporter's longing for home 2012-03-01T00:10:04Z

That is one of many revealing anecdotes in “Words Without Music,” Mr. Glass’s warm, low-key and often delightful new memoir. Review: Philip Glass’s ‘Words Without Music’ Tells of a Life Full of Changes in Rhythm 2015-04-05T04:00:00Z

Crane downloaded the memoir but had yet to read it: “I’m approaching it with some trepidation, knowing how much pain is there.” ‘Right now, I am everywhere’: Matthew Perry’s endless loop 2022-11-08T05:00:00Z

This memoir traces his life from his childhood in the Depression-era Bronx through his artistic education and enduring success. 8 New Books We Recommend This Week 2021-12-30T05:00:00Z

Gypsy is based on the memoirs of Gypsy Rose Lee the famous burlesque artist. Imelda Staunton to star in Gypsy 2014-09-11T04:00:00Z

In the purported memoir, Li claims armed rioters opened fire first at Chinese troops, forcing them to return fire in self-defence. Memoir axed 2010-06-20T18:04:00Z

As she wrote in her memoir, quoted by Roiphe, “What could I do to be ‘more real’? Review | What do women authors hope to gain by showing their weaknesses on the page? 2020-02-20T05:00:00Z

I knew very little about memoir when I began a graduate program in nonfiction. Alice Sebold's "Lucky" and the problem with memoirs with happy endings 2021-12-05T05:00:00Z

“Minor Characters” is, in its quiet but deliberate way, among the great American literary memoirs of the past century. Illuminating the Beats From Their Shadow 2017-04-06T04:00:00Z

This made the book something like a memoir, a form that in the nineties came with the double highbrow disqualifier of being both female and popular. A Deflated Adaptation of the Singular Cult Novel “I Love Dick” 2017-05-15T04:00:00Z

It's not really a memoir, at least not in the traditional sense. A Minute With: Neil Young on his new album, film 2012-06-06T09:09:49Z

Tyler Wetherall, a writer in Brooklyn, is the author of the memoir “No Way Home.” He Couldn’t Remember That We Broke Up 2021-07-09T04:00:00Z

Given that he lays out the allegation and ensuing drama in searing detail in his memoir, I would wager he cares quite a lot these days. 'Do I really care?' Woody Allen comes out fighting 2020-05-29T04:00:00Z

His memoir is — with some niggling reservations — a master class in the craft of reporting. Seymour M. Hersh — the Journalist as Lone Wolf 2018-06-13T04:00:00Z

The show is drawn, often verbatim, from Byrne’s recent memoir of the same name. ‘Walking With Ghosts’ Review: Gabriel Byrne Roams His Past 2022-10-27T04:00:00Z

Winterson’s unconventional and winning memoir wrings humor from adversity as it describes her upbringing by a wildly deranged mother. 100 Notable Books of 2012 2012-11-27T16:28:12Z

But perhaps the real message of Grey’s melancholy talk-therapy memoir, “Master of Ceremonies,” is that the act of escaping never ends. Joel Grey takes center stage in ‘Master of Ceremonies’ 2016-02-03T05:00:00Z

Still others were based on his own exploits, related in his three-part memoir, “Yakuza and Feuds.” Noboru Ando, 89, Mobster and Film Star in Japan, Dies 2015-12-26T05:00:00Z

Pagels, a renowned religion scholar, explores in this memoir the profound grief she experienced when she lost her young son and her husband in quick succession. 9 New Books We Recommend This Week 2018-12-13T05:00:00Z

Prince Harry has gotten cold feet about the memoir’s contents at various points, book industry executives with knowledge of the process told The Times, and the project has been shrouded in rumors, delays and secrecy. Prince Harry’s Memoir Is Due in January. How Explosive Will It Be? 2022-10-26T04:00:00Z

“The Art of Sleeping Alone,” her memoir about giving up sex, was published in 2013. I Quit Sex for 12 Years 2020-01-20T05:00:00Z

I long for a new form, a cross between fiction and memoir, or a new way of reading, where we read fiction with the eyes of memoir and read memoir with the eyes of fiction. Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie: Facts are stranger than fiction 2013-04-19T17:29:01Z

He remained at his most freewheeling, swaggery best in the last months of his life--fittingly, for a man who titled his memoir "When I Stop Talking You'll Know I'm Dead." Jerry Weintraub dies: For longtime producer, a zeal buttressed by swagger 2015-07-06T04:00:00Z

Without the rock memoir boom of ’12, we might never have known that. Rock ’n’ Roll and Write 2012-11-22T21:38:44Z

The former first lady has been doing the rounds of late promoting her new memoir "Becoming," packing in Ariana Grande-level stadium crowds, while also making stops at small girls' clubs along the way. Michelle Obama is right about leaning in — and about marriage 2018-12-03T05:00:00Z

“She went to the library,” White writes, “and started checking out every kind of book — romance novels, spy novels, biographies, memoirs, history books, cookbooks — anything in print.” 10 New Books We Recommend This Week 2022-06-16T04:00:00Z

James Salter talks in his wonderful memoir, Burning the Days, slightly preciously perhaps, about the weariness of self-revelation. Rupert Thomson: a life in writing 2013-03-08T10:00:01Z

Can you recommend other experimental or unconventional memoirs? Why David Shields Can’t Read the ‘Greatest Book Ever Written’ Anymore 2022-03-24T04:00:00Z

Financial terms for her memoir were not disclosed. AP NewsBreak: Katie Couric writing memoir, expected for 2021 2019-02-12T05:00:00Z

While he was writing “All the Light,” he also published two other books with Scribner — a memoir about living in Rome and another story collection; they sold around 70,000 copies combined. Anthony’s Doerr’s ‘All the Light We Cannot See’ Hits It Big 2014-12-26T05:00:00Z

Now, Ms. Guy said she is working on a memoir, tentatively titled — what else? What Happens When a Weddings Influencer Gets Divorced? 2019-12-10T05:00:00Z

In his memoir, Fisher was incapable of acting the gentleman to his first wife. Eddie Fisher: The Songs, the Sins, the Scandal 2010-09-24T22:35:00Z

His memoir, ‘‘The Magical Stranger,’’ will be published in May by HarperCollins. Here Is What Happens When You Cast Lindsay Lohan in Your Movie 2013-01-13T17:37:08Z

I’m not so indebted to the talented Mr. Sokolov, however, that I won’t point out that his new memoir is about as soulful as a microwaved burrito. Books of The Times: ‘Steal the Menu,’ by Raymond Sokolov 2013-05-09T21:24:23Z

He also produced a second volume of memoirs, “But What Do You Actually Do?: A Literary Vagabondage,” published in 2011. Alistair Horne, War Historian and Onetime British Spy, Dies at 91 2017-05-30T04:00:00Z

The chef’s 15-year-old East Village restaurant in New York remains a favored brunch spot, and Hamilton impressed a much broader audience with “Blood, Bones and Butter,” her raw and compelling memoir, almost four years ago. ‘Prune’ the cookbook: Where’s the appeal?

“There have been,” he continues, “memoirs, diaries, books about the Pythons, books by the Pythons about the other Pythons, articles about the books about the Pythons, countless interviews, autobiographies, documentaries … so many documentaries.” Nudge Nudge: New Books by Eric Idle and John Cleese 2018-11-28T05:00:00Z

Susannah Clapp's short memoir of her friendship with Angela Carter is colourfully characterised through ribald and sardonically surreal postcards sent to friends from her travels, commenting on her activities and attitudes. Critical eye: reviews roundup 2012-02-10T22:55:12Z

It was Boehner, Obama recalls in his recent memoir, who first broached the threat of not raising the debt ceiling in 2011 — a radical move that would have sent the nation into default. The Divided Mind and Politics of John Boehner 2021-04-08T04:00:00Z

Buzz Bissinger begins his new memoir, “Father’s Day: A Journey into the Mind & Heart of My Extraordinary Son,” with a heart-wrenching confession. Motherlode Blog: Father's Day, With Autism: Rethinking the Cool Dad 2012-06-14T17:27:20Z

If you're an aficionado of the form, Lowe's memoir will give you every satisfaction that a cheesy celebrity memoir can give. Friends in Lowe Places: Rob Lowe and the Art of the Celebrity Memoir 2011-04-21T10:15:00Z

Throughout his memoir, Evans is more persona than person. The Legacy of Robert Evans, a Vexing Hollywood Legend 2019-11-02T04:00:00Z

Even so, Fox initially balked at the idea of a movie, particularly one centered on tales he had already written about in four best-selling memoirs. Making a Michael J. Fox Movie With Michael J. Fox’s Movies 2023-05-14T04:00:00Z

His solution was to channel that honesty into a fourth memoir, “No Time Like the Future,” which Flatiron is publishing on Nov. 17. When It Comes to Living With Uncertainty, Michael J. Fox Is a Pro 2020-11-13T05:00:00Z

It’s set in an unnamed country, but there is something deeply African about this novel, Beah’s second, behind “Radiance of Tomorrow” and a best-selling war memoir, “A Long Way Gone.” A ‘Little Family’ Against the World 2020-04-28T04:00:00Z

As with many genres, chef's memoirs – these hard-boiled tales of "sex and chopping" – are instantly recognisable by their covers. A taste for chefs' memoirs 2010-04-22T08:00:00Z

The term memoir — there’s no give in that definition, that I realized. “I’m the parent who wants their kids to have sex”: Mary Louise Parker talks poetry, nudity, one-night stands and her brilliant new book 2015-12-19T05:00:00Z

He’s in his thirties for most of the memoir, and, anyway, he’s not religious. “The Twice-Born,” A Searching Memoir About India’s Identity Crisis 2019-03-30T04:00:00Z

His memoir, "Nevertheless," will be published next month. Alec Baldwin and Kurt Andersen are writing a Trump book together. Sad. 2017-03-01T05:00:00Z

James Atlas’s heartfelt memoir of his vexed friendship with Philip Roth is available exclusively in audiobook form. Review | Best audiobooks to get you to winter’s end 2019-03-07T05:00:00Z

Dan Lyons, a writer on the third season of the show, was a tech reporter who left journalism to work for a startup, then got fired and wrote a memoir, “Disrupted,” about the experience. How “Silicon Valley” Nails Silicon Valley 2016-06-09T04:00:00Z

Fourteen years ago, the debacle over James Frey's "A Million Little Pieces" was an indisputable humiliation for Winfrey after the highly fictionalized nature of his supposed memoir was exposed on The Smoking Gun. Has Oprah lost her touch? 2020-02-07T05:00:00Z

It’s part unauthorized LeBron James biography, part personal memoir, all unabashed diatribe. The Whore of Akron: More Than Just a LeBron James Takedown 2011-11-30T11:58:32Z

I didn’t want a memoir that made the brutality I experienced seem extraordinary. Writing family stories: Jason Tougaw on his memoir 'The One You Get' 2017-09-22T04:00:00Z

He partakes in intense physical challenges — walking to the top of the Burj Khalifa, the tallest building on the planet, or navigating the Dubai Police Academy obstacle course — and is also working on his memoir. Hollywood’s First Family of Putting It Out There 2022-02-10T05:00:00Z

The result is a hybrid of documentary, memoir and musical-mystical essay. ‘A Kaddish for Bernie Madoff’ Review: Reflections on a Scandal 2022-09-06T04:00:00Z

Holocaust Memorial Museum shop is spartan, brightly lit and as sedate as a Barnes & Noble, with shelves stocked with memoirs, books about Anne Frank and academic tomes about genocide. New museum’s gift shop has a $3,000 quilt, a $1 pencil and everything in between 2016-09-20T04:00:00Z

But this memoir is also educational, if you overlook its authorial excesses. Kissing Harrison Ford and other cringe-worthy moments in Carrie Fisher’s book 2016-11-17T05:00:00Z

In one of his memoirs, “North Face of Soho,” he wrote: “I smoked so much that I needed the hubcap of a Bedford van as an ashtray.” Clive James, a Tireless Polymath Who Led With His Wit 2019-11-27T05:00:00Z

When he was not teaching, Mr. Winick began pouring most of his energy into writing a memoir, the first of several books on a variety of subjects that he would self-publish. United by Sorrow, They Forged a Joyful Future 2022-01-21T05:00:00Z

The memoir is expected to lift the lid on the 54-year-old's life growing up in Manchester and his relationship with his former bandmates in The Smiths, one of the most important bands in British music. Morrissey autobiography gets release 2013-10-04T09:04:15Z

More recently, he wrote "Chronicles: Volume One," the first book in a planned three-volume memoir. New book of Bob Dylan lyrics to sell for $200 -- and $5,000 2014-10-08T04:00:00Z

In “Cherry Hill,” her own pictures constitute a fully equal component of the memoir, as artfully composed as the accompanying text. Jona Frank: Between Reality and Fantasy 2020-10-26T04:00:00Z

Sitting in my study, talking about what to keep and what to let go of, we got to know one another, and I lent her a copy of my memoir, “A Life in School.” V.S. Naipaul, Paul Theroux, and me: What I learned from reading about their tumultuous relationship 2018-09-23T04:00:00Z

The film, showing on Saturday night on Lifetime, is based on the memoir of the same title by Delaine Moore, and it’s aimed squarely at the “Fifty Shades of Grey” crowd. Lifetime, Hallmark and Up Focus on Singles With Children 2014-05-30T04:00:00Z

Five years ago, he published Red Carpets and Other Banana Skins, a deliciously irreverent account of his adventures in La-La land, one of the best recent theatrical memoirs. Best biographies of 2012 2012-11-29T17:00:01Z

Presidential memoirs are meant to inform, to burnish reputations and, to a certain extent, to shape the course of history, and Obama’s is no exception. The 10 Best Books of 2020 2020-11-23T05:00:00Z

Anderson encourages readers to fight for themselves without understating the difficulties of recovery, and even in her memoir’s darkest moments, she’s conscious of the saving graces that kept her head above the water. In a Memoir, Laurie Halse Anderson Gets Personal About Rape 2019-03-01T05:00:00Z

Does this memoir grab illustrate the power of Swift — or of BookTok — or the desperation of the publishing industry? The Mystery of the Taylor Swift memoir: Who profits, who leaked it and who is it even by? 2023-05-09T04:00:00Z

There is no hint of regimented structure and the book veers anarchically from short story to anecdote to memoir. Vanished Years by Rupert Everett – review 2013-06-09T10:00:03Z

It is clear, for example, that many of the show’s scenes — details about Mr. Lee’s relationship with his wife, for example — were drawn directly from his memoirs and speeches. Singapore’s History Put to Song 2015-08-14T04:00:00Z

His lauded stage memoir, "Humor Abuse," opens Wednesday at Seattle Repertory Theatre. 'Humor Abuse': life from a clown's POV 2011-10-03T21:32:04Z

Glazer is booking film roles and is working on her standup; Jacobson recently published a memoir, and will produce a reboot of the women’s-baseball film “A League of Her Own” under her own shingle. The “Broad City” Finale: Abbi and Ilana’s Conscious Uncoupling 2019-03-31T04:00:00Z

My first memoir took over a year to be published after it was finished. Who’s the real insane clown posse? Trump fans give Juggalos a run for their money in “7 Days in Ohio” 2016-09-24T04:00:00Z

Her book is not so much a history of Harlem as a kind of memoir of history. T Magazine: Harlem Revisited 2011-02-04T14:00:12Z

Gorokhova’s new memoir, “Russian Tattoo,” explores whether or not he was right. Review: “Russian Tattoo,” by Elena Gorokhova 2015-01-09T05:00:00Z

This is an excerpt from a new memoir by his widow, veteran Post writer Sally Quinn. He was behaving differently. He had lost something. I was the only one who noticed. 2017-09-05T04:00:00Z

He wrote screenplays, several novels and a bestselling memoir, “A Drinking Life.” Pete Hamill, legendary New York columnist, has died 2020-08-05T04:00:00Z

We can look forward to many more years of "novels" and "memoirs" from people who barely know how to hold a pen, never mind whether i comes before e. Forget Pippa Middleton's party pooper. Not all celebrity books are a bum deal 2012-11-15T11:45:50Z

Vanyashin hired Patrick to write his memoir, which was to be filled with information damaging to Vladimir Putin. Review | ‘A Lonely Man’ is an elegant suspense novel in the tradition of the ‘The Third Man’ 2021-05-12T04:00:00Z

This sense of time, or music, cycling back upon itself gives the memoir its most sustaining resonance. Elvis Costello's aim is truth in memoir 'Unfaithful Music & Disappearing Ink' 2015-10-15T04:00:00Z

Elia Kazan’s 1988 “A Life” arguably remains the most raw, soul-searching memoir ever written about a career in show business. Books of The Times: ‘The Selected Letters of Elia Kazan’ 2014-04-16T21:14:50Z

“If I am forced to choose only one book for the president, it would be hard to leave out ‘King Lear,’” says the Nobel-winning economist Amartya Sen, whose forthcoming memoir is “Home in the World.” Why the Nobel-Winning Economist Amartya Sen Recommends ‘King Lear’ 2022-01-06T05:00:00Z

This memoir of the experience, recounted with passion and insight, grapples with questions that are as much philosophical as technical. 10 New Books We Recommend This Week 2022-06-16T04:00:00Z

In 2004, he had published his first book, an acclaimed memoir called My Life in Orange; reviewers praised Guest's "astonishing maturity" and called it "poignant, funny and wise". The strange life of Tim Guest 2010-03-28T00:05:00Z

It was something like, he’s busy writing his memoirs. For Spike Lee, a New Requiem for New Orleans 2010-08-23T22:21:00Z

One of his sisters emails his agent, complaining that in the “memoir” he’s rumored to be writing he’s “not being truthful.” Mom and Dad sever all ties to you. But why? The compelling mystery of 'The House in Scarsdale' 2017-05-17T04:00:00Z

One says “I’m writing a memoir. It’s mostly recipes.” Sam Gross, 89, Dies; Prolific Purveyor of Cartoons, Tasteful and Otherwise 2023-05-10T04:00:00Z

Davis’s memoir honors her remarkable mother, who made a good life for her family in the ’60s and ’70s by running an underground numbers gambling operation out of her Detroit home. 10 New Books We Recommend This Week 2019-01-31T05:00:00Z

“Whistleblower” comes out just a month after Anna Wiener’s memoir, “Uncanny Valley.” Review | ‘Whistleblower’ and ‘Uncanny Valley’ offer a chilling look at life in Silicon Valley 2020-03-02T05:00:00Z

It was a book a lot of people were talking about in the 1980s, when memoirs were having a big moment, in M.F.A. programs and book reviews. All the Presidents Penned 2020-02-09T05:00:00Z

Besides "Dusk," his books include the story collection "Last Night," the novel "A Sport and a Pastime" and the memoir "Burning the Days." James Salter wins lifetime short story prize 2012-05-21T19:15:12Z

Oltermann's charming mix of memoir, analysis and random facts has to struggle to stay upright in the sort of storm generated by such an elemental piece of Anglo-Hollywood lore. Keeping Up with the Germans by Philip Oltermann ? review 2012-02-09T09:00:01Z

Brammer’s debut is a memoir in 12 essays, each framed as an advice column in response to a question about race, queer life, childhood trauma and more. New in Paperback: ‘Let the Record Show’ and ‘Hell of a Book’ 2022-06-24T04:00:00Z

When was the last time you did both while reading a 260-page memoir? Review: `Dogtripping' will make you laugh out loud 2013-07-22T14:07:45Z

“When you are deciding what to leave out, begin with the author,” he warned students in his recent writing memoir, “Draft No. 4.” In These New Essays, John McPhee Finds Poetry in the Material at Hand 2018-12-17T05:00:00Z

“Fire Shut Up in My Bones” features a libretto by Kasi Lemmons based on a memoir of The New York Times columnist Charles Blow that includes themes of molestation and sexual identify. Met Opera skips this season, 1st Black composer opens ’21-22 2020-09-23T04:00:00Z

It does not suggest looking for Clinton's memoir elsewhere on the site, where it could be purchased from Amazon as an e-book or in print. It's here: Amazon's e-book subscription service, Kindle Unlimited 2014-07-18T04:00:00Z

Q: Publishers in the past have offered to produce the book as memoir. Book Talk: Irish author was told 'didn't fit niche' 2014-05-22T04:00:00Z

There is a mischievous twinkle in his eye throughout this memoir. ‘Yes, Chef,’ by Marcus Samuelsson 2012-06-26T12:37:23Z

Today memoirs might be more therapeutic in aim, or explicitly political. In Letters to the World, a New Wave of Memoirs Draws on the Intimate 2019-10-16T04:00:00Z

The actor makes the allegation about Michaels in his new memoir, “Baby Don’t Hurt Me.” Chris Kattan alleges Lorne Michaels pressured him to have sex with Amy Heckerling to save "Roxbury" 2019-05-29T04:00:00Z

What is memoir but extended replay, and in this case a kind of revenge? Stephanie Grisham, the Latest White House Memoirist, Offers Apologies and Payback 2021-09-29T04:00:00Z

Organized into alternating chapters entitled “Before” and “After,” the memoir is a study in “gaslighting” — making someone feel that she is crazy or only imagining things. New in Memoir: Lessons in Falling in Love, and 2 Accounts of Its Horrors 2017-07-21T04:00:00Z

Cohen wrote in recent court filings that a Trump Organization attorney sent him a cease and desist letter in April contending his memoir was barred by a non-disclosure agreement. Experts: Cohen may profit from criminal exploits in tell-all 2020-09-02T04:00:00Z

Tallent’s singular and haunting new memoir, “Scratched,” offers some of the answers. Why Did an Accomplished Writer Fall Silent for Two Decades? 2020-02-25T05:00:00Z

In her memoir, Case — a British nurse, poet and spoken-word artist — writes movingly about what care means on the most basic human level. 9 New Books We Recommend This Week 2019-11-27T05:00:00Z

Jonathan Van Ness released his newsworthy tell-all this week; Karamo Brown’s memoir led the pack in March; and Tan France’s “Naturally Tan” was a best seller in June. Antoni Porowski of ‘Queer Eye’ Serves Up a Best Seller 2019-09-27T04:00:00Z

I feel that I've got to know him a little bit, admittedly aided by the lubricant of his memoirs and his commitment to publicise it. Simon Pegg: 'I measure life by my feelings for Star Wars' 2010-10-16T23:05:00Z

The enormous print run for Mr. Obama’s memoir will likely make the logjams even worse — especially as the holiday shopping season arrives. Best Sellers Sell the Best Because They’re Best Sellers 2020-09-19T04:00:00Z

The episode takes a judiciously modest proportion of the memoir — 67 of the book’s 482 pages address it directly. Sally Mann on Her History, Frame by Frame 2015-05-13T04:00:00Z

In any case, I now realize that this archetypal grade-school re-enactment is no more accurate than a James Frey memoir, because I’ve been talking to people who take their Thanksgiving portrayals far more seriously. Thanksgiving Re-enacted Around the Country 2011-11-17T20:45:59Z

And she has published a memoir in which she doesn’t mention them. How to Be a Stage Mother (No, Not That Kind) 2018-11-28T05:00:00Z

Jaouad, 33, who is undergoing chemotherapy and is the author of the best-selling cancer memoir, “Between Two Kingdoms,” met Batiste when they were teenagers in band camp. Jon Batiste to headline Biden’s first state dinner, serenade Macron 2022-11-27T05:00:00Z

But Harrison then recounted walking the Camino de Santiago, the pilgrimage in northern Spain which is the subject of memoirs by both Harrison and MacLaine. This Is the Story of My Life. And This Is the Story of My Life. 2019-01-10T05:00:00Z

The book morphs into a Fleet Street memoir, witty and gossipy. Life Between the Lines: A Memoir by John Izbicki – review 2013-02-02T08:00:47Z

“Inferno” is a disturbing and masterfully told memoir, but it’s also an important one that pushes back against powerful taboos. A New Mother Chronicles Her Journey to Hell and Back 2020-08-04T04:00:00Z

Here is a 2005 review of his memoir from The Times: A charming, witty introduction to a 'Stranger' a la Gene Wilder 2016-08-29T04:00:00Z

Iain Dale and his team put into print many lively, engaging and often important biographies, memoirs and current affairs titles written from across the spectrum. Chateau Despair by Lisa Barnard; The Real Iron Lady by Gillian Shephard – review 2013-03-25T11:00:01Z

The “Silicon Valley” star blends humor and pathos in his coming-of-age memoir, revealing the intricacies of life as a Chinese immigrant growing up in California, from cultural assimilation to interracial dating. New & Noteworthy 2018-03-06T05:00:00Z

From April to September of 2021, she had daily coaching sessions by Zoom with Barbara Jones, an editor and publishing industry veteran who helped shape the memoir. Don’t Call Her ‘Baby.’ At 62, Jennifer Grey Is Taking the Lead. 2022-04-18T04:00:00Z

One of the hardest stories in the memoir is about the death of her beloved older sister, Elizabeth, who died intoxicated in a jail cell screaming for her epilepsy medication. How acclaimed Chicago chef Iliana Regan found her bliss in the woods 2019-08-12T04:00:00Z

Her memoir shows how deep that grit runs. From Lucinda Williams, a Memoir as Flinty as Her Songs 2023-04-22T04:00:00Z

This stunning memoir explores the deep strange bond she forms with her bird. These Are The Best Books of 2015 So Far 2015-07-30T04:00:00Z

The Puerto Rican singer is set to release his memoir on Nov. 2. Ricky Martin's autobiography due in November 2010-08-19T19:31:00Z

Otherwise, what would we write in our memoirs?” An Interview With January Jones of ‘Mad Men’ 2013-05-17T22:09:45Z

If anything sums up J. Michael Straczynski’s memoir, it is “Doesn’t matter, get up, keep fighting,” a mantra that appears seven times in the epilogue. ‘Tired of Running’: A Sci-Fi Veteran Tells His Own (Earthling) Story 2019-07-20T04:00:00Z

At various points in this memoir the author is at work on poems, or a novel. Review: ‘The Point of Vanishing,’ Howard Axelrod’s Memoir About Solitude 2015-12-20T05:00:00Z

There's also a lot of criticism out there about women's trauma memoirs and violence memoirs in general. "Everyone can and should get our own 'Predator,'" says writer who's watched film 146 times 2022-09-11T04:00:00Z

Our critic Dwight Garner called it “a hybrid volume: part memoir, part philosophical lament.” Six New Books We Recommend This Week 2017-01-19T05:00:00Z

The former president, who published his "A Promised Land" memoir in November, noted that several recent shows helped him unwind while taking breaks from writing. "The Boys" cast reacts to Barack Obama praising show 2020-12-17T05:00:00Z

Instead, as she recounted in “Brain on Fire,” her best-selling 2012 memoir about her ordeal, she was eventually found to have a rare — or at least newly discovered — neurological disease: anti-NMDA-receptor autoimmune encephalitis. Her Illness Was Misdiagnosed as Madness. Now Susannah Cahalan Takes On Madness in Medicine. 2019-11-02T04:00:00Z

After a memoir and one previous novel, Ms. Leary is on the brink of becoming known for more than being Denis Leary’s wife. The Novelist Ann Leary Writes About Secrets 2013-02-01T22:50:56Z

Q: Your Montana memoir "This House of Sky" was published when you were 39 — you've been writing and publishing books for more than 30 years. A Q&A with author Ivan Doig, whose latest novel is 'Work Song' 2010-07-16T23:02:00Z

“When Breath Becomes Air,” Paul Kalanithi’s memoir of his final years as he faced lung cancer at age 37, was published posthumously, in 2016, to critical acclaim and commercial success. Two dying memoirists wrote bestsellers about their final days. Then their spouses fell in love. 2018-01-03T05:00:00Z

“Becoming” was part of a package deal for Penguin Random House, which acquired the publication rights to memoirs by both Ms. and Mr. Obama for an astounding $65 million. Michelle Obama Will Publish a New Book This Fall 2022-07-21T04:00:00Z

Hersh is at the book festival to discuss her memoir Paradoxical Undressing. Kristin Hersh: 'I hate music' 2011-08-22T20:31:01Z

“A lot of people when they get older they write autobiographies or memoirs,” he said. Oliver Stone Rewrites History — Again 2012-11-25T03:37:22Z

In the same vein as the British tabloids, Wayback Burgers is not a fan of Prince Harry's recent bombshell memoir "Spare." Wayback Burgers asks Prince Harry to shut up with its new “Royal Silencer” burger 2023-01-18T05:00:00Z

Mrs. Clinton had taken a break from her beach vacation to sign copies of her latest memoir, “Hard Choices.” Hillary Clinton’s Gay Rights Evolution 2014-08-29T04:00:00Z

Unfortunately, this memoir hews to the family myth even as it seeks to expose it. When Someone Says ‘Everything Is Fine,’ It Usually Isn’t 2021-04-13T04:00:00Z

That sort of battlefield observation cannot be learned from briefing books; it is what makes this less a memoir and more a how-to manual for anyone faced with a financial crisis. Man in charge 2014-05-15T04:00:00Z

This memoir draws blood, in ways that seem curative. The Top Books of 2015 2015-12-10T05:00:00Z

“Disturbance” is a memoir that evokes overlapping worlds. Times Critics’ Top Books of 2020 2020-12-02T05:00:00Z

This makes some sense, but it’s the rare part of this winningly snarky memoir that feels like a stretch. Books of The Times: ?Fiction Ruined My Family,? by Jeanne Darst - Review 2011-09-28T21:54:46Z

If such moments don’t feel out of place in Silverman’s memoir, that’s in part because its episodic narrative leaps froglike through 40 years of her life, quickly dispensing with even the most disturbing events. Review: Sarah Silverman’s ‘Bedwetter’ Musical Has Sprung a Leak 2022-06-07T04:00:00Z

While Denizet-Lewis is a master at effortlessly weaving bits of research into his narrative, at times this technique is at odds with the more traditional memoir at the heart of "Travels with Casey." Two dog memoirs shed light on human nature 2014-07-17T04:00:00Z

At one point, he writes in a parenthetical, “Please note: for the next few paragraphs, this book will be a biography rather than a memoir because I was no longer there.” The One Where Matthew Perry Writes an Addiction Memoir 2022-10-23T04:00:00Z

“Frankly, I can never be far enough from Hollywood,” wrote lantern-jawed Bruce Campbell in his 2001 memoir “If Chins Could Kill.” Actor Bruce Campbell offers an engaging master class in schlock 2017-08-21T04:00:00Z

In this memoir he elides the topic entirely. Bill Cunningham, Style Maven, Leaves Behind a Memoir and It’s ‘a Real Dilly’ 2018-08-20T04:00:00Z

In “The Enemy of the People,” Acosta’s memoir about covering Trump, the journalist recounts a phone call from then-White House aide Hope Hicks after Trump’s first full news conference as president in February 2017. In new book, CNN’s Acosta recounts death threats after his clashes with Trump 2019-06-10T04:00:00Z

Patti Smith, the rock poet and National Book Award winner for 2010’s “Just Kids,” will release a follow-up memoir, titled “M Train,” on Oct. Patti Smith to Publish Another Memoir, 'M Train,' in October 2015-04-13T04:00:00Z

He added that it was upsetting for those close to Ms. Thatcher, who, as her daughter revealed in a 2008 memoir, is suffering from Alzheimer’s. Carpetbagger Blog: What Do 'Dragon Tattoo' and 'Iron Lady' Have in Common? Ask the Grousers 2011-12-23T13:30:35Z

There are few certain things in bookselling, but this is one – prime ministers' memoirs sell. Tony Blair's A Journey breaks sales records 2010-09-08T11:45:00Z

Henry Louis Gates Jr. noted in The New York Times Book Review in 1987 that by the end of the 1860s, only a handful of Black women had published their memoirs. Jean Fagan Yellin, Who Uncovered a Slavery Tale’s True Author, Dies at 92 2023-07-28T04:00:00Z

It’s one of a series of heartaches James layers into her fresh, funny memoir. A Black Graduate of an Elite Boarding School Gets Real 2022-01-18T05:00:00Z

Despite the particularly modern horror of identity theft that lies at the center of “The Less People Know About Us,” a memoir by Axton Betz-Hamilton, the book reads like a grim folk tale. What if the Thief Who Steals Your Identity Is Your Mom? 2019-10-15T04:00:00Z

Literary agents and editors should be preparing a whole new slate of political memoirs and nonfiction books for a reading public eager for something different. Tired of Trump books? A new wave of politicians could bring a fresh crop of titles. 2018-11-07T05:00:00Z

Feldman pieces together the family’s story from conversations with the Roberts clan and their associates and from what seems like an inexhaustible supply of Roberts-related memoirs. Weekend Reading: A televangelist empire, and more 2014-10-11T04:00:00Z

For research, she devoured other memoirs about The Post, especially former executive editor Ben Bradlee’s “A Good Life: Newspapering and Other Adventures.” How a writer defied ‘one in a million’ odds to get her first movie made by Steven Spielberg 2017-12-20T05:00:00Z

Her latest memoir, “Hell and Other Destinations,” was published earlier this year. Madeleine Albright: ‘We are like the worst possible example of things. And it is hurting us.’ 2020-07-10T04:00:00Z

As Tannen’s early letter to her father indicates, “Finding My Father” is something of a “bad mother” memoir in sheep’s clothing. Review | Deborah Tannen’s ‘Finding My Father’ pays tribute to a man whose many jobs became his life story 2020-09-23T04:00:00Z

Recently, after the publication of an unstinting memoir by Ms. Wintour’s longtime colleague André Leon Talley, who is Black, she apologized for “publishing images and stories that were hurtful and intolerant” in Vogue. Stephen Gan Is the Latest Magazine Editor Under Fire 2020-07-08T04:00:00Z

“There were the two fantasies I encountered,” the author of the memoir turned Netflix TV series Orange is the New Black told an audience in New York on Thursday. Orange is the New Black's Piper Kerman: 'Schools in prisons are a positive investment' 2014-09-05T04:00:00Z

The confessional documentary, memoir, play, whatever, is annoying far more often than it is effective, and that is certainly the case here. Review: ‘Prescription Thugs,’ a Confessional Documentary on Substance Abuse 2016-01-21T05:00:00Z

“I think people are afraid of looking like a loser,” says Kristin Newman, a TV writer and author of the travel memoir What I Was Doing While You Were Breeding. Why Every Woman Should Travel Alone 2015-02-13T05:00:00Z

It’s a nifty bit of whataboutism from Pence, who tries his hardest in this memoir to have it all ways at once. Loyal to God and Trump, Mike Pence Defends His Record 2022-11-14T05:00:00Z

The tour will be produced by Live Nation, the concert promoter which previously worked on an author event scaled even higher — Michelle Obama’s tour for her 2018 memoir “Becoming.” Couric book tour this fall will be in-person, in theaters 2021-06-21T04:00:00Z

In his 2010 memoir "Possiplex," Nelson, who was an Internet pioneer and coined the term "hypertext," described this and other choices as "entirely the right decisions." Love and inheritance: Celeste Holm's family feud 2011-07-04T02:09:04Z

In his second memoir, “The Game Show King: A Confession,” in 1993, he made nary a mention of his CIA fantasy, or even of the first book. “Gonged at Last”: game show impressario and author Chuck Barris dead at 87 2017-03-23T04:00:00Z

Aurora Flores, a music journalist and composer who was working with him on his memoir, said Mr. Harlow had displayed an acerbic wit, an acid tongue and a willingness to defy conventions. Larry Harlow, Influential Figure in Salsa, Dies at 82 2021-08-26T04:00:00Z

The excellent The Hired Man continues at the Bolton Octagon and The Road to Nab End, a memoir of a poverty-stricken northern childhood is at the Oldham Coliseum. What to see: Lyn Gardner's theatre tips 2010-06-18T14:40:00Z

In his memoir “Chronicles: Volume One,” Dylan remembered Cafe Wha? as “a subterranean cavern, liquorless, ill lit, low ceiling, like a wide dining room with chairs and tables.” Manny Roth, colorful owner of New York’s Cafe Wha? club, dies at 94

He also recently released a memoir titled “The Awkward Thoughts of W. Kamau Bell.” “I don’t have an agenda; I just want to learn”: Salon talks to W. Kamau Bell about “United Shades of America” 2017-05-04T04:00:00Z

Iconic rocker, iconoclastic poet and National Book Award-winning author Patti Smith will see her memoir "Just Kids" brought to screens by Showtime, the cable channel announced Tuesday. Patti Smith's 'Just Kids' will be a Showtime miniseries 2015-08-11T04:00:00Z

Whatever else it is — a novel, a memoir, a pack of lies, a mishmash — this book is beautiful. Michael Chabon Returns With a Searching Family Saga 2016-11-18T05:00:00Z

To support his broken back, Olmstead wrote in his memoir, he was rigged in a brace that held his arms and shoulders up by chains. Kennedy-Nixon 1960 election clash: The last time Russians intervened in a U.S. election 2017-01-28T05:00:00Z

Non-fiction, and in particular the literary memoir, the stylised recollection of personal experience, is often as much about character and story and emotion as fiction is. Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie: Facts are stranger than fiction 2013-04-19T17:29:01Z

She also prompts her readers to try to recall specific aspects of various points in their lives, from childhood until the present, loosely forming a kind of memoir. “The Artist’s Way” in an Age of Self-Promotion 2016-05-04T04:00:00Z

Straw sold the serialisation of his memoir to the Daily Mail. Jack Straw: 'I didn't have a nervous breakdown, but I was close to one' 2012-09-29T23:07:05Z

During one television appearance, the lawsuit says, Ms. Johnson said that she saw Mr. Cosby in an airport after her memoir was published and that he appeared shocked and walked by her. Cosby Sues Another Accuser, Beverly Johnson 2015-12-21T05:00:00Z

“I was terrified of them, and I didn’t want to end up” in that throng, said Sting, whose memoir, “Broken Music,” details the escape route he mapped through music and literature. Sting and Jimmy Nail on the Musical ‘The Last Ship’ 2014-10-15T04:00:00Z

That passion is revealed in his just-published memoir “Time Between: My Life as a Byrd, Burrito Brother, and Beyond.” Chris Hillman’s musical life from Bryds to Burritos and more 2020-12-08T05:00:00Z

Free; first come first served, but two reserved seats are available with the purchase of Mr. Samuelsson’s memoir “Yes, Chef.” Spare Times for Aug. 3-9 2012-08-02T22:39:32Z

A writer need not be concerned with where she comes from, but for memoir this is its core project. A Memoir’s Painful Question: Where Are You From? 2021-08-17T04:00:00Z

The truest sentence in “Unsolaced” may be its last one: “What I have written is an odd kind of memoir, notable — if at all — for what has been left out.” A Memoir That Sees Only the Tip of the Melting Iceberg 2021-01-12T05:00:00Z

Last year, when production was initially announced, Wallace’s estate registered its objections, but the filmmakers have noted that their account is based on Mr. Lipsky’s memoir. David Foster Wallace Film Will Open BAMcinemaFest 2015-05-06T04:00:00Z

Mixing memoir, family saga, travelogue and cultural ­history. 100 Notable Books of 2012 2012-11-27T16:28:12Z

This exchange captures some of the tone of Ms. Gornick’s funny and elegiac and truth-dealing new memoir, “The Odd Woman and the City.” Review: ‘The Odd Woman and the City’ by Vivian Gornick 2015-05-17T04:00:00Z

Ms. Drescher has written two memoirs and in both is candid about her troubled life. Television Review : Life With a Gay Ex-Husband. It Happens. 2011-06-14T22:30:15Z

The foursome also approached the question of truthfulness in memoir from different angles. Festival of Books: How authors tackle truthfulness in memoirs 2015-04-18T04:00:00Z

She charted the conflict in her 2002 debut, The Devil that Danced on the Water, a memoir that was shortlisted for the Samuel Johnson prize. Aminatta Forna: a life in writing 2013-05-03T17:00:02Z

While writing my memoir based in part on the Partition and my parents' childhood, I hunted for nonfiction books and memoirs written by witnesses, but when I found little, I turned to fiction and poetry. 5 books and films that tell the story of the trauma of the Partition of India and its aftermath 2022-08-27T04:00:00Z

In the hierarchy of literary respect, fiction is king, followed by historical narrative and, dead last, the lowly memoir. Russell Shorto’s Grandpa Was a ‘Smalltime’ Mobster 2021-02-02T05:00:00Z

The comedian Amy Schumer is leading the charge with her much-hyped memoir, out Aug. 16 from Gallery Books, which explores her childhood, her family relationships, feminism and how she broke into comedy. This Summer, Girls in Titles and Girls in Peril 2016-05-26T04:00:00Z

Much of Grace Talusan’s memoir, “The Body Papers,” will be familiar to any reader of immigrant narratives. A Filipino-American Memoir of Racism, Abuse and Heartbreak 2019-05-16T04:00:00Z

How does Harper’s memoir change how you think of those words? Who Saves an Emergency Room Doctor? Her Patients 2020-07-07T04:00:00Z

In “Not Dead & Not For Sale,” a 2011 memoir with David Ritz, Mr. Weiland wrote at length about the allure of the wild life when he was a rising artist. Scott Weiland, vocalist with Stone Temple Pilots, dies at 48 2015-12-04T05:00:00Z

“My mother used to buy me any and every book with the word ‘Sarah’ in the title,” says the author, whose 2019 memoir “The Yellow House” is now out in paperback. The Very Sweet Way Sarah Broom’s Mother Showed Her Love With Books 2020-07-09T04:00:00Z

Here are a few excerpts from the memoirs, some more incendiary than others, of other recent Washington notables: Wayne Sabaj shows where he said he found two cash-laden canvass bags. Man reports finding $150K in his garden 2011-08-31T11:17:00Z

Boo was chosen from one of the strongest lists of nonfiction books in memory, from the fourth volume of Robert Caro's Lyndon Johnson series to Shadid's memoir "House of Stone." Erdrich wins her first National Book Award 2012-11-15T15:12:08Z

This 500-page memoir is so packed, that it only gets through the opening of “The Phantom of the Opera,” now more than three decades old and still going strong. Review | Andrew Lloyd Webber sings a happy tune in his memoir, ‘Unmasked’ 2018-02-28T05:00:00Z

I found a wealth of diaries, published memoirs and historical accounts from which to draw extracts. How I wrote: Terezín: A Story of the Holocaust 2013-01-27T09:18:30Z

And it’s not just in the setup — evasion mars this memoir throughout. When Your Family Becomes a Noah’s Ark-Style Experiment With Race 2023-03-28T04:00:00Z

Cooper explored the humor and the hardship of growing up in public housing on the outskirts of a picturesque English village in “This Country” and in her 2021 memoir, “Don’t Laugh, It’ll Only Encourage Her.” Finding TV Inspiration in Internet Forums and Old Friends 2023-04-20T04:00:00Z

Twain had worked on his memoir for years and never finished it. Mark Twain back on best-seller lists with memoir 2010-10-19T16:50:00Z

I felt it had to be a memoir . "Everyone can and should get our own 'Predator,'" says writer who's watched film 146 times 2022-09-11T04:00:00Z

One character eulogizes him; another, called the Dreamer, recites the passage from Williams’s memoirs. Calixto Bieito Directs Williams?s ?Camino Real? in Chicago 2012-03-02T18:30:03Z

It is this rich tangle of sass, success and backlash that Ms. Bridges teases out in her memoir, a coming-of-age tale spiced with sex and dish. At Home With Sheila Bridges: Weeding Out the Riffraff 2013-07-17T23:00:39Z

"Manuscripts Don't Burn" tells the story of an Iranian author secretly writing his memoirs - and the authorities' attempts to destroy the manuscript. Banned Iranian director Rasoulof coming to Cannes 2013-05-23T16:00:13Z

The first book in the “Little House” series began as a memoir that Wilder called “Pioneer Girl.” ‘Little House on the Prairie’ and the Truth About the American West 2017-11-20T05:00:00Z

To begin with, her grandfather's memoirs were written exclusively in his native tongue. 'The Hundred-Year Walk': Dawn Anahid MacKeen retraces her Armenian grandfather's escape from genocide 2016-04-08T04:00:00Z

But, Gekoski suggests, in their ashy absence, the memoirs became far more thrilling than if they had made themselves available for the price of a shilling in the usual way. Lost, Stolen or Shredded: Stories of Missing Works of Art and Literature by Rick Gekoski – review 2013-06-29T08:00:54Z

Every memoir should brim over with the physical experiences that once streamed in—the smell of garlicky gumbo, your hand in an animal’s fur, the ocean’s phosphor lighting up bodies underwater all acid green. Sacred Carnality 2015-10-11T04:00:00Z

"Things I Didn't Know," a memoir, was published in 2006 and "Rome," his highly personal history of the city he called "an enormous concretion of human glory and human error," was published last year. ArtsBeat: Robert Hughes, Eloquent and Combative Art Critic, Dies at 74 2012-08-06T23:00:01Z

“This is America, honey, and your memoir claims abuse and neglect, so, what that means is you need to get someone to verify what you’ve written.” I was adopted at 41 2016-05-29T04:00:00Z

In an unpublished memoir that she shared with me, Ms. Mucha details the precise role she played in the creation of her husband’s work. Claes Oldenburg Captured a Carefree (and Consumerist) America 2022-07-19T04:00:00Z

In “Chasing Hillary,” Chozick has written neither a raw personal memoir nor a biography of Clinton, but rather an account of all the elements that came between Clinton and the journalists condemned to cover her. The Walls That Hillary Clinton Created 2018-04-24T04:00:00Z

“For most of my life, I had pretended to be someone I was not,” he writes in “The Lie,” his debut memoir, “and now I had become the one others pretended to be.” ‘Had I Catfished My Wife?’: A Debut Midlife-Crisis Memoir 2019-06-30T04:00:00Z

Now, in this mashup of memoir, , self-help and philosophy, Sheila Heti has added a bit of story, quite a few blow jobs and some cheeky exclamation marks, and finally made it credible. How Should a Person Be? by Sheila Heti - review 2013-01-11T08:00:10Z

It is a collage of memoir, cultural history and travelogue in which the author makes pilgrimage to ever more distant seas to swim with whales and dolphins. The Sea Inside by Philip Hoare – review 2013-05-30T06:30:01Z

These narrators appear to be doubles of their authors but are not specifically identified as such, and the anonymity keeps the books in a state of quantum superposition between memoir and fiction. The Rise of the Nameless Narrator 2015-03-03T05:00:00Z

The memoir’s first sentence — “I refuse to acknowledge time, famously so” — is *chef’s kiss*. Mariah Carey, Elusive No More 2020-10-04T04:00:00Z

Author discusses her memoir "A Tiger in the Kitchen: A Memoir of Food and Family." Author reveals the 'Tiger in the Kitchen' 2011-06-09T16:04:04Z

Recently, a couple of memoirs came out, both of which I read in extract, not in full. My verdict on books I haven't read 2012-07-29T20:30:01Z

In this memoir, Bair revisits her early work: her National Book Award-winning life of Samuel Beckett and a study of her great heroine, Simone de Beauvoir. 12 New Books We Recommend This Week 2019-11-21T05:00:00Z

It is with such questions that the authors of each of these memoirs are, in their different ways, concerned. Best memoirs to read this month 2017-05-11T04:00:00Z

It explains the furor over the Woody Allen memoir and a recent book written by an officer involved in the shooting death of Breonna Taylor. Amazon sales of transphobic book revives greater free speech debate 2021-07-22T04:00:00Z

The memoir glides from one setting to the next, from Colorado to Arkansas, recalling the movement-filled days Jensen savored with her best friend, a star athlete who died of an overdose. The Harsh Realities of Being Indigenous in North America 2020-09-16T04:00:00Z

“Making a good loaf of bread can entirely change my mood,” she wrote in her memoir. After Culinary and Literary Acclaim, She’s Moving to the Woods 2020-01-21T05:00:00Z

Truong is exploring personal memoir in all its creative and contradictory subjectivity. 12 New Books We Recommend This Week 2019-10-17T04:00:00Z

His memoir, “Every Day Is Extra,” was released this fall. John Kerry feels liberated. Does that mean he’ll run for president? 2018-11-21T05:00:00Z

“This is an encyclopedic book, history as told through old newspapers and telephone books and scraps of detail found in letters and memoirs.” 11 New Books We Recommend This Week 2020-03-26T04:00:00Z

And Claire Tomalin, whose acclaimed biographies have told the stories of Jane Austen, Charles Dickens and other literary giants, gets around to sharing her own accomplished and incident-filled life in a new memoir. 10 New Books We Recommend This Week 2018-08-16T04:00:00Z

But tempting as it may be to contrast Orr’s and Self’s memoirs, a more instructive comparison is with the novelist Edward St Aubyn. The critical drubbing for Will Self’s book shows there’s a subtle art to memoir | Hadley Freeman 2019-11-16T05:00:00Z

Strong’s affecting memoir starts when her beloved cousin Owen dies of brain cancer in 2020 — just before the pandemic hits. 10 books to read in August 2021-07-30T04:00:00Z

She writes in a 1984 memoir, "Part of my soul went with him," of being interrogated continuously for five days and five nights, growing so exhausted she periodically fainted. New opera tells Winnie Madikizela-Mandela's story 2011-04-27T17:31:07Z

And yes, she's a woman named Memory writing her memoir, pushing the tale into the realm of allegory. Petina Gappah's 'The Book of Memory' is a vivid and powerful debut novel 2016-01-28T05:00:00Z

Her family tales and memoir are steeped in Okie lore and shined into myth like a rodeo belt buckle, sounding more Dust Bowl than Baby Boom. Reba McEntire never needed to be the best. She simply had to want it most. 2018-11-27T05:00:00Z

But that would do an injustice to Edward Dusinberre’s memoir “Beethoven for a Later Age: The Journey of a String Quartet”. Four into one does go 2016-02-04T05:00:00Z

Her book “Inheriting the Revolution: The First Generation of Americans” looked at memoirs and autobiographies to reveal how Americans born between 1776 and 1830 reinvented themselves and their society. Joyce Appleby, Historian of Capitalism and American Identity, Is Dead at 87 2017-01-02T05:00:00Z

He hates being judged, but in his memoir, he can be supremely judgmental. Review | Bill Cunningham left behind a memoir. It is, to use one of his favorite words, marvelous. 2018-09-05T04:00:00Z

Garner writes of this amiable book: “It’s been a long time since I met such a thoroughly normal guy in a memoir.” 13 New Books We Recommend This Week 2021-08-12T04:00:00Z

But his memoir is about more than the making of a choreographer. Review | Mark Morris bares his soul in a refreshingly raw and inspiring memoir 2019-11-01T04:00:00Z

The host's memoirs offer clues to what made him so cranky. Paul O'Grady's socialist fury rant was a rare live-TV shock 2010-10-28T07:00:00Z

In "Alan's War" his tales contained little of the gallantry and bloodshed one might expect in a wartime memoir. 'How the World Was' a vivid tale of a 20th century California boyhood 2014-08-15T04:00:00Z

I read a lot of food memoirs, mother-daughter memoirs, and musician's memoirs in preparation to write my own. Michelle Zauner's "Crying in H-Mart" is a food memoir so painfully delicious, your eyes water 2021-04-20T04:00:00Z

Jessye Norman, the renowned opera singer, will write a memoir about her family and professional life, her publisher said on Wednesday. ArtsBeat: Jessye Norman to Publish Memoir 2012-02-29T17:23:47Z

Greg Mania is the author of the memoir “Born to Be Public.” She Is a Rock; She Is an Island 2022-08-02T04:00:00Z

It’s a quality that sets this book vividly apart from other memoirs that deal with suffering. Kurt Eichenwald’s Memoir of a ‘Mind Unraveled’ 2018-10-15T04:00:00Z

In his memoir, Mr. Dozier concurred: “We thought of H.D.H. as a factory within a factory.” Lamont Dozier, Writer of Numerous Motown Hits, Dies at 81 2022-08-09T04:00:00Z

But there was more to her new quest, and why she wrote a memoir about it. Finding meaning late in life without ‘Eat Pray Love’ 2016-06-16T04:00:00Z

But its chief interest lies in how it diverges from the celebrity memoir’s triumphal arc. Joel Grey takes center stage in ‘Master of Ceremonies’ 2016-02-03T05:00:00Z

Linda Carlson, an actress who lives in New York and Connecticut, is working on a memoir about her life onstage and in therapy. Modern Love: First the Proposal, Then the Remodeling 2012-10-12T00:10:04Z

Stephanie Land, 43, is a writer whose memoir, “Maid: Hard Work, Low Pay, and a Mother’s Will to Survive,” chronicles her struggles as a low-income single mother and inspired the Netflix series “Maid.” ‘Maid’ author Stephanie Land on what it feels like to be shamed for being poor 2021-12-20T05:00:00Z

As good citizens, we conscientiously buy the campaign biographies of would-be presidents and even the self-justifying memoirs of actual presidents. Perspective | To read or reread? New books are alluring, but don’t discount the value of the familiar 2020-01-28T05:00:00Z

The project was an extension of her 2018 best-selling memoir of the same name and a kind of authorized filmic portrait of Obama. Michelle Obama to host podcast on health, relationships 2020-07-16T04:00:00Z

In recent years, trauma memoirs have increasingly found a home in French playhouses. In Paris, First-Person Trauma Jumps from Page to Stage 2022-12-01T05:00:00Z

Her memoir becomes a dramatic, step-by-step examination of what it means to sustain a life without knowing the consequences of doing so, of tolerating an excruciating level of ambiguity. Review: In ‘Girl in Glass,’ Deanna Fei Shares Her Baby’s Struggles 2015-12-13T05:00:00Z

For Harrison, the suggestion of subconscious plagiarism was deeply troubling, and gave him a sense of “paranoia about songwriting,” as he later wrote in a memoir. Stolen or Original? Hear Songs From 7 Landmark Copyright Cases. 2023-04-27T04:00:00Z

Hisham Matar is the justly praised author of two novels — his first, “In the Country of Men,” was a finalist for a National Book Critics Circle Award — and a remarkable, Pulitzer Prize-winning memoir, “The Return.” Hisham Matar Spent ‘A Month in Siena’ Staring at Art 2019-10-22T04:00:00Z

As the duchess wrote in a 2010 memoir, Wait for Me!, AD Remembers: Deborah Duchess of Devonshire 2014-09-24T04:00:00Z

He reached “a tipping point in the balance between fresh narrative and essayistic memoir,” Mr. Shields maintains. Books of The Times: Charles J. Shields?s ?And So It Goes,? on Vonnegut - Review 2011-11-02T23:41:53Z

Award-winning playwright Wajahat Ail brilliantly captures the "us versus them" feeling in his new memoir, "Go Back to Where You Came From: And Other Helpful Recommendations on How to Become American." The "race-obsessed liberal" nightmare: "We have to fight for a country that doesn't love us back" 2022-03-27T04:00:00Z

When Jennette McCurdy wrote a memoir, which Simon and Schuster will publish on Aug. 9, it was clear to her that her relationship with her mother would provide its narrative force. Jennette McCurdy Is Ready to Move Forward, and to Look Back 2022-08-03T04:00:00Z

My memoir “A Series of Catastrophes and Miracles” came out earlier this year, an achievement of which I am enormously proud. You don’t have to read my book: What I want to say to those who say “pass” to reading about cancer 2016-09-08T04:00:00Z

Or as it's more commonly called, memoir, currently the great American art form. A taut, gripping inquiry into 'The Affair' 2014-10-10T04:00:00Z

Ung, a Cambodian author and human rights activist, writes about surviving the Khmer Rouge regime in her memoir. Angelina Jolie to Direct Netflix Drama Set in Cambodia 2015-07-24T04:00:00Z

Hymn, directed by Fall, is described as "a touching memoir of music in childhood", while Cocktail Sticks stages a one-way conversation between a son and his dead father. National Theatre to smash records with eight plays open in London at once 2013-01-17T14:43:29Z

These pages leave a slightly sour taste, but it would be a mistake to regard them as the sole, or even the most important, impetus for the memoir. Saul Bellow's Heart: A Son's Memoir by Greg Bellow – review 2013-05-25T11:01:01Z

A few years after Parker's death, in a brief memoir of their relationship, Macdonald wrote warmly of his "ability to perceive" and of an intellect which, although untrained, was "prodigious". Charlie Parker: a genius distilled 2010-03-21T21:30:00Z

From the sky to the sea, with another international best seller: Patrik Svensson’s “The Book of Eels,” which combines elements of memoir with an examination of the slithery creatures. 11 New Books We Recommend This Week 2020-08-27T04:00:00Z

An assiduous researcher, Mr. Shatrov gleaned historical details and even lines of dialogue from the minutes of party meetings, unpublished memoirs and his own interviews with participants in the events he described. Mikhail Shatrov, Outspoken Soviet Playwright, Dies at 78 2010-05-26T15:59:00Z

Grand Central Publishing, an imprint of Hachette Book Group, said Tuesday it acquired world rights to King's memoir from Joy Harris Literary Agency in an auction last week. Songwriter Carole King signs book deal 2011-06-15T10:17:47Z

“I just lost my husband,” she writes in her memoir. The holidays are a lonely time for those who have loved and lost. These books can help. 2018-12-17T05:00:00Z

Last year, Skyhorse published Woody Allen’s memoir “Apropos of Nothing” after it was pulled by Hachette Book Group, where employees staged a walkout in protest. Philip Roth biography, pulled last month, has new publisher 2021-05-17T04:00:00Z

The film, based on Cheryl Strayed's bestselling memoir, hit the fall film festival circuit on its way to a December release and an awards bid. Reese Witherspoon, from rom-com queen to 'Wild' woman 2014-10-18T04:00:00Z

Ms. Monroy’s memoir, “The Marriage Act,” tells the full story of her marriage to her gay best friend. The Modern Love Podcast: Malin Akerman Reads ‘Elvis and My Husband Have Left the Building’ 2017-03-15T04:00:00Z

It’s all here in his new memoir, “Reporter,” if by “all” we mean the filing-cabinet details behind his greatest scoops, the settling dust of old deadline clashes. In ‘Reporter,’ Seymour Hersh Recounts Leaping Tall Deadlines in Single Bounds 2018-05-28T04:00:00Z

She’s written a memoir, created an online support group and now hosts a podcast, “Terrible, Thanks for Asking,” which debuted last November. The Art of the Taboo Podcast Interview 2017-08-01T04:00:00Z

I am trying to put together a movie based on my memoir. Q&A: Grace Coddington 2015-09-26T04:00:00Z

This stunning memoir is less an account of the writer’s own life than a post-mortem of his parents’ marriage, and an honest and heartfelt portrayal of his mother. 8 New Books We Recommend This Week 2021-10-28T04:00:00Z

This 45-minute song — the first seven minutes are instrumental — merges a memoir of a life spent in indie-rock with philosophical musings. Best Songs of 2020 2020-12-07T05:00:00Z

Many of the memoir’s eye-popping revelations have already spilled in leaks, and some of the most dramatic moments from the interviews Harry gave promoting the book have circulated online as teasers. The Rollout of Prince Harry’s Book Is Chaotic. Sales Are Still Surging. 2023-01-07T05:00:00Z

Who can resist a memoir by the greatest living spy novelist of our time? 9 New Books We Recommend This Week 2016-09-23T04:00:00Z

“What readers get is almost a memoir,” she said. ‘The Tattooist of Auschwitz’ and the History in Historical Fiction 2018-11-08T05:00:00Z

Ms. Pausch said she hoped her memoir would enlighten such observers. Book by ?Last Lecture? Author?s Widow 2010-10-08T17:04:00Z

It’s among the rawest and most under-sung memoirs of the last century. ArtsBeat: Reading Crews, a Novelist as Swaggering as His Characters 2012-03-29T20:51:44Z

He had recently completed a memoir, “Lucky Man,” to be published in Britain next year. Greg Lake, of King Crimson and Emerson, Lake and Palmer, Dies at 69 2016-12-08T05:00:00Z

Wagner acknowledges a fight took place on the Splendour, but in his best-selling 2008 memoir "Pieces of My Heart," he wrote that the fighting was between him and Walken. Natalie Wood detectives face conflicting accounts 2011-11-19T12:47:11Z

Ms. Auder said she didn’t quite know why she had written the memoir. A Daughter of a Warhol Superstar Tells Her Story at Last 2023-04-28T04:00:00Z

“Joyce’s memoir was clear, and it was powerful, and it was well written, and it was smart, and it was direct,” she said. Joyce Maynard’s Second Chances 2019-02-08T05:00:00Z

When Lint is 60, one of his kids pens a critically acclaimed memoir recalling his dad’s violent behavior — and for a few frightening, Panter-esque pages, the only color we see is red. It All Started in Omaha 2019-10-14T04:00:00Z

Instead of cutting down and burying this rotten bough, Bilger decided to climb to it, build a sturdy perch, have a long look around and report his findings in a new memoir, “Fatherland.” A Grandson Investigates the ‘Reasonable’ Nazi in the Family 2023-05-14T04:00:00Z

Levy leans on her themes more heavily in her memoirs than she does in her novels. Stepping Out of Character and Starting a New Story 2018-06-25T04:00:00Z

“Looking for goshawks is like looking for grace,” Helen Macdonald writes in her extraordinary memoir H Is for Hawk. Review: The Angry Bird of H Is for Hawk 0002-11-29T05:00:00Z

Heather Sellers, the author of “You Don’t Look Like Anyone I Know,” is at work on a new memoir about her family. Modern Love: Do Not Adjust Your Screen or Sound 2013-06-13T19:46:45Z

Anyone who writes a memoir about a dead parent needs to be aware of an element of taking revenge, though it's likely to be better hidden from the writer than the reader. On Helwig Street: A Memoir by Richard Russo – review 2012-12-30T00:05:21Z

Duncan said he wasn't aware of the racist backlash to his appearance until White wrote about it in one of her memoirs. Remembering Betty White, America's grandmother and the first lady of television, dead at 99 2021-12-31T05:00:00Z

She is currently working on a memoir about her early years and putting together a stage musical for which she has written songs. Anna Karina Recalls Her Life in Film With Jean-Luc Godard 2016-05-04T04:00:00Z

But interesting as Harrison's memoir is, it doesn't get into the Sandhills. A Prairie Prologue in Nebraska 2015-01-02T05:00:00Z

As a fan of memoirs, I appreciate the weaving of fact into a narrative, but “The Baby Chase” works better without the autobiographical burden. Motherlode Blog: Motherlode Must-Read: ‘The Baby Chase: How Surrogacy Is Transforming the American Family’ 2014-01-14T21:51:13Z

Susan Shapiro is the author of the memoir “Five Men Who Broke My Heart,” which is being developed for television by Lifetime. Modern Love: A Visit, and What Really Happened - Modern Love 2012-05-24T18:25:34Z

Our summer books preview highlights 136 books to enjoy over the next few months, and beyond — thrillers, memoirs, YA, history, fiction, science fiction, pop culture, kids titles, audio books and more. Summer reading guide: The 136 books you'll want to read 2015-05-28T04:00:00Z

The former is a memoir that he completed fourteen years before his death, in 1997; the latter is a collection of early experimental work that he wrote in his thirties, when he first attempted prose. The Violent Insights of Bohumil Hrabal 2019-11-19T05:00:00Z

The actor recently visited The Times to talk about his memoir, “Stories I Only Tell My Friends.” ArtsBeat: Video: Rob Lowe on Writing His Memoir 2011-05-16T19:21:04Z

The most arresting memoirs bring Aha! moments while entertaining with a picaresque adventure. 'Wild': blisters and redemption on the Pacific Crest Trail 2012-03-14T19:57:04Z

As a 12-year-old boy in Europe in the early 1930s, he ran away with a band of Gypsies, lived with them on and off for 10 years, and, decades later, wrote this luminous memoir. Adam Hochschild Says Books Can Change the World. He Has Proof. 2020-03-12T04:00:00Z

It is worth following his progress in his latest exhibition which includes surreal pastiches of portraiture and allusive scenes out of some Bloomsbury era memoir. Nan Goldin, Tony Cragg and Robert Rauschenberg ? the week in art 2011-07-22T12:06:33Z

Barker, a reporter for ProPublica formerly with The Seattle Times and Chicago Tribune, discusses her war journalism memoir, "The Taliban Shuffle: Strange Days in Afghanistan and Pakistan." Your best arts and entertainment bets for the week ahead 2011-04-20T22:18:11Z

Kissinger has made the case for himself in an outpouring of thick, ponderous books, most especially his more than 3,000 pages of memoirs, published in three volumes. Henry Kissinger and the Puzzle of the Middle East 2021-10-26T04:00:00Z

Told in florid, exuberantly vulgar Rabelaisian prose, that novel, published in 1976, purported to be Falstaff’s memoirs, dictated in his ninth decade to a series of household secretaries. Robert Nye, Novelist Who Imagined Falstaff’s Memoirs, Dies at 77 2016-07-06T04:00:00Z

Other choices include a family memoir, a debut novel about a single gay mother, a ghost story and a Nordic thriller with shades of “The Silence of the Lambs.” 11 New Books We Recommend This Week 2018-04-19T04:00:00Z

Sarah Smarsh’s memoir, “Heartland,” opens with a perplexing ode to an imaginary baby. She Grew Up Poor on a Kansas Farm. Her Memoir Is an Attempt to Understand Why. 2018-09-10T04:00:00Z

The evidence of the two memoirs is that we can die or lose others beautifully, even while trying as hard as we can to prolong life. ‘The Good Death,’ ‘When Breath Becomes Air’ and More 2016-02-08T05:00:00Z

And even without Farrell’s privilege, Nate’s path from college to Broadway to a successful screenwriting career is relatively frictionless, which gives some sections the desultory feeling of a light memoir rather than a novel. From Paul Rudnick, a Mismatched Couple but Perfect for Each Other 2023-05-31T04:00:00Z

I didn’t tell her that before joining the professorial ranks, I’d been a professional dominatrix and drug addict, or that I’d recently published a memoir about my days of spanking and shooting heroin. Dominatrix in a Tea Party town: Confederate flags, pickup trucks — and now me 2015-03-31T04:00:00Z

Scranton is a constant in his speeches, a conceit in his memoir and a perennial campaign pit stop. Scranton became shorthand for the past. Its reality is far more complicated. 2020-07-21T04:00:00Z

This book, part memoir and part scientific report, chronicles his three decades on the front line in the gang and drug war. 'Don't Shoot': Saving young lives in a long gang war 2011-09-28T23:47:03Z

“Welcome to publishing! I’m going to write a memoir about my early days in New York and call it Weird Lunch.” Team older feminist: am I allowed nuanced feelings about #MeToo? 2019-10-16T04:00:00Z

“It was such a major change,” Guns N’ Roses guitarist Slash wrote in his memoir. Guns N’ Roses Rakes in Millions on Reunion Tour, but It’s Missing ‘Mr. Invisible’ 2018-05-27T04:00:00Z

When George said she would like to interview “that Gandhi woman,” Mr. Joyce recalled in his dishy memoir, “Prime Times, Bad Times,” she was told that Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi had been assassinated. Edward M. Joyce, CBS News president in the 1980s, dies at 81

“Milk!” is a kind of stealth memoir — between the lines, it’s all Kurlansky, memory, taste. A History of Everything, Served in a Cold Glass of Milk 2018-07-23T04:00:00Z

Fortunately, there are just as many memoirs, histories, biographies, cookbooks, manifestos and more to satisfy every kind of reader. The 10 books to read in June 2019-05-28T04:00:00Z

All this predates her memoir, Brave, which was published in 2018, despite nefarious sabotage attempts that remain baffling to hear about. Rose McGowan: 'I won't be free of Harvey Weinstein until he's dead – or I am' 2020-02-28T05:00:00Z

Like the Stein book, a mock memoir that mixes fiction and nonfiction and was written by Stein from Toklas’s point of view, “Nicolae Ceausescu” is something of a rarefied ventriloquist act. | 'The Autobiography of Nicolae Ceausescu': ?Autobiography of Nicolae Ceausescu,? by Andrei Ujica - Review 2011-09-08T23:07:41Z

Krug, a contributing editor of Book World, writes monthly about new memoirs. Four gimmick-free memoirs 2015-03-24T04:00:00Z

His story in the memoir simply ends, having never been told. Alice Sebold's "Lucky" and the problem with memoirs with happy endings 2021-12-05T05:00:00Z

“MPR News got a Sigma Delta Chi Award for locating five women who left the show feeling unhappy,” he wrote in his memoir. Inside Garrison Keillor’s attempted comeback after his #MeToo downfall 2021-10-19T04:00:00Z

His new cinephilic memoir, "Keepers," is both a nostalgic reverie and taking of stock, and it approaches its subject in a counterintuitive manner. Richard Schickel's movies memoir 'Keepers' is breezy to a fault 2015-07-03T04:00:00Z

Generous yet unsparing portraits of competitive surf friendships are among the joys of Finnegan’s memoir. 100 Notable Books of 2015 2015-11-27T05:00:00Z

Jahren narrates her own science memoir, which also traces the course of her life, from her Minnesota roots to her fieldwork all over the globe. Dear Match Book: What Audiobooks Will Liven Up My Summer Road Trips? 2017-06-20T04:00:00Z

In fact, the memoir does tell us who Duchess Goldblatt really is, without giving a name. Who Is Duchess Goldblatt? 2020-07-07T04:00:00Z

Her memoir reveals some of the shocking scenarios she found herself in. New in paperback: 13 September releases worth reading 2020-09-28T04:00:00Z

As a result, there is a whole section of this memoir where she describes her dreams as you might describe the evening news. Country Girl by Edna O'Brien – review 2012-10-12T21:55:03Z

More details on this phase in Mr. Cunningham’s life and career will arrive in the fall, with the publication of his posthumously discovered memoir, “Fashion Climbing.” Bill Cunningham’s Unseen Scrapbooks 2018-06-08T04:00:00Z

When Clinton finished the manuscript for her second memoir, “Hard Choices,” she sent the manuscript to Muscatine to get her comments. Former Hillary Clinton speechwriter set to publish an insider account 2017-04-19T04:00:00Z

Try, instead, reading it as a memoir of grieving. Perspective | ‘Walden’ may be the most famous act of social distancing. It’s also a lesson on the importance of community. 2020-04-06T04:00:00Z

For, while the leisured reading of a travel memoir by a noted navelgazer might offer an opportunity to identify with the author, there's something about actually watching it that rather alters the dynamic. Eat Pray Love trailer: Julia Roberts overindulges in navelgazing 2010-03-30T10:37:00Z

She is writing a memoir called “Horror Stories,” part of a two-book deal with Random House. Liz Phair Is Not Your Feminist Spokesmodel 2018-05-03T04:00:00Z

She was also renowned for “Confessions of a Failed Southern Lady,” a well-received, somewhat fictionalized 1985 memoir in which she plumbed the depths, and the shallows, of her genteel upbringing. Florence King, Writer Who Wielded an Acerbic Wit, Dies at 80 2016-01-09T05:00:00Z

I read this entire memoir with my breath held. This Party's Got to Stop by Rupert Thomson | Book review 2010-03-28T00:06:00Z

His memoir is strewn with words from others he read while in prison — Nelson Mandela, James Baldwin, Frantz Fanon, Frederick Douglass. ‘Solitary’ Is an Uncommonly Powerful Memoir About Four Decades in Confinement 2019-03-04T05:00:00Z

But when the memoir arrives at the death of her little boy, Pagels’s tone feels bracingly appropriate. Review | After her son and husband died, Elaine Pagels wondered why religion survives 2018-11-06T05:00:00Z

He first envisions a novel about his youth, but everyone tells him that “the publishing world is turning toward memoir.” ‘The Tender Bar’ Review: Where Everybody Knows His Name 2021-12-15T05:00:00Z

His memoir of his wife Iris Murdoch descending into the darkness of Alzheimer’s, “Elegy for Iris” is not “pitiless,” as Atlas asserts, but self-sacrificial and sympathetic. Literary biography: possibility and peril 2017-10-06T04:00:00Z

Partly drawing on the memoirs of the Treasury agent Eliot Ness and named for his incorruptible special unit, “The Untouchables” first appeared as a two-part drama broadcast by CBS’s “Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse” in April 1959. ‘The Untouchables’ TV Series: Old-School Gangster Trapping 2016-08-05T04:00:00Z

The memoir came together without a ghostwriter, which is rare for household-name authors. The One Where Matthew Perry Writes an Addiction Memoir 2022-10-23T04:00:00Z

The most moving portions of this memoir come at the end. Review: In ‘Stories I Tell Myself,’ Life as Hunter S. Thompson’s Son 2015-12-31T05:00:00Z

This superabundance of comic energy and literary vigor is a measure of Lockwood’s seriousness and makes hers feel the most resonant of the three memoirs. Best memoirs to read this month 2017-05-11T04:00:00Z

“The Year of Magical Thinking” is adapted from Didion’s best-selling 2005 memoir of losing her husband as their daughter was gravely ill, and Didion applies her dry, detail-oriented eye to herself under duress. Kathleen Turner returns to Arena in Didion’s ‘Magical Thinking’ 2016-10-14T04:00:00Z

Relying on memoirs and interviews, he vividly conveys the tension, fear and exhilaration of the combatants. ‘The War Below:’ subs’ role in WWII’s U.S.-Japan conflict 2013-08-24T15:12:17Z

The memoir will tell of her childhood in the American South in the 1970s and `80s. Poet laureate Natasha Trethewey working on memoir 2012-07-02T16:51:15Z

One more thing: Her memoir, "Hunger Makes Me a Modern Girl," will be published in October. Emmy chat: Carrie Brownstein on 'Portlandia,' 'Transparent' on Wednesday 2015-06-09T04:00:00Z

Bechdel’s engaging, original graphic memoir explores her troubled relationship with her distant mother. 100 Notable Books of 2012 2012-11-27T16:28:12Z

A third of the way into his debut memoir, Silva riffs on “The Sopranos”: “Tony Soprano remarks that ‘remember when…’ is the lowest form of conversation.” Unhappy Families Abound in These New Books About Fathers and Sons 2022-02-01T05:00:00Z

During a recent forum about education, Mr. Saval, 37, was asked what word he would choose as a title for a memoir about his run. The N+1 Candidate 2020-05-28T04:00:00Z

There is good news and bad news about “It’s in the Action: Memories of a Nonviolent Warrior,” the memoir of civil rights icon C.T. Review | In C.T. Vivian’s memoir, a civil rights icon looks back at his life as a ‘nonviolent warrior’ 2021-04-06T04:00:00Z

Alexis Wright: I’m awed by the range, experiment and political intelligence of her work, from fiction such as “Carpentaria” and “The Swan Book,” to her “collective memoir” of an Aboriginal elder in “Tracker.” The Classic Novel That Robert Macfarlane Just Couldn’t Finish 2020-11-19T05:00:00Z

Next week, Thomas is releasing a memoir, "Growing Up Laughing." Marlo Thomas launches website for women on AOL 2010-09-22T15:47:00Z

Guerrero, who next month will publish a memoir for children about her experience, expressed empathy for the families ensnared by the Trump administration’s “zero-tolerance” policy. She’s a successful TV star. But she’s still grappling with her parents’ deportation. 2018-06-21T04:00:00Z

Three of these memoirs have stuck in my mind recently. Review: In Tracy Tynan’s Memoir, ‘Wear and Tear,’ Feeding on Explosive Drama 2016-07-12T04:00:00Z

The case against Jones was dubiously constructed, as Brittany K. Barnett, Jones’s attorney, recounts in her memoir, “A Knock at Midnight.” The Injustice Deep Within the Justice System 2020-09-08T04:00:00Z

It's not surprising that people who expect a memoir to tell them documentary fact, or people who require some kind of truth in novels, have problems with the book. Tiger, Tiger by Margaux Fragoso ? review 2011-04-10T05:30:01Z

It’s an illness memoir without saints; its heroines a flawed mother and her flawed daughter. When a Stroke Felled Her Mother, This Author Ran Away to the Circus 2018-05-24T04:00:00Z

Garrow argues that “Dreams From My Father” is neither memoir nor autobiography but “a work of historical fiction.” A Take-No-Prisoners Biography of Barack Obama Examines His Early Love Life 2017-05-09T04:00:00Z

The film follows Obama on a nationwide tour to promote the memoir. What’s on TV Wednesday: ‘Becoming’ and ‘Brockmire’ 2020-05-06T04:00:00Z

Mandvi has also finished work on a new memoir, “No Man’s Land,” slated to hit shelves this October. “The Daily Show’s” Aasif Mandvi wants you to calm down about Jon Stewart: “We don’t need to freak out” 2015-04-09T04:00:00Z

Van Ronk’s memoir describes Dylan as so cosmically full of it that he himself probably had no idea what was true and what wasn’t. T Magazine: The Enduring, Multigenerational Appeal of Justin Timberlake 2013-09-12T11:35:19Z

Working with Graham was “life in the eye of the storm, at the epicenter of an earthquake,” he wrote in his wry, diaristic 2020 memoir, “Onstage With Martha Graham.” Stuart Hodes, Who Danced With Martha Graham, Is Dead at 98 2023-03-20T04:00:00Z

The first-lady memoir is a rite of passage, but Obama’s is different by virtue of her very identity. In revealing new memoir, Michelle Obama candidly shares her story 2018-11-08T05:00:00Z

My dad wrote a memoir; he wrote it when he was a celebrated columnist at the New York Times. "That is the David Carr way": Erin Lee Carr on writing fearlessly on grief, addiction and her father 2019-04-20T04:00:00Z

This memoir relays Mr. Rushdie’s experiences after the fatwa was issued. The Stabbing of Salman Rushdie Renews Free Speech Debates 2022-08-15T04:00:00Z

And the self-portrait that emerges from his new memoir, “A Journey: My Political Life,” is very much that of a man without a shadow. Books of The Times: At the Center of the Storm, but Still a Mystery 2010-09-01T20:10:00Z

As she put it in her memoir, she told herself: "You've got all this time and all that poetry waiting." May Ivimy obituary 2011-01-18T18:19:39Z

Barack Obama began his memoir “Dreams from My Father” with the following paragraph: Communicator-in-chief: Where Obama’s rhetoric illuminated a complex world, Trump’s deceptive dialect dumbs down 2016-06-19T04:00:00Z

Unfortunately, enthusiastic readers of these memoirs hoping for more of the same are likely to feel let down by Auster's latest, Winter Journal. Winter Journal by Paul Auster – review 2012-08-15T10:00:02Z

I’d read her memoir, “How to Disappear Completely: On Modern Anorexia,” while researching my piece, which benefitted from her perceptive analysis of a lineage of anorexic writing. Susan Choi’s “Trust Exercise” and the Question of Appropriating Other People’s Lives as Fiction 2019-04-17T04:00:00Z

“When James walked into a room — any room — he transformed it, charging it up with his radiance,” Simon wrote in her memoir, whose portrayal of Taylor is both bruising and worshipful. James Taylor’s strength was melancholy. Now he must cope with contentment. 2016-11-30T05:00:00Z

“Bruja” is a game of expression, but it’s a memoir too, and not by accident. In the space of dreams: Wendy Ortiz's 'Bruja' is vivid and dark 2016-12-08T05:00:00Z

Rice’s “bit player” role in the Benghazi drama is, in fact, a major through-line of the memoir. Susan Rice Recounts Making Policy at the Highest Levels 2019-10-10T04:00:00Z

She stared at him over a bagel, he reports in his new memoir, “Steal the Menu,” and asked, “Since when did you become a food queen?” Books of The Times: ‘Steal the Menu,’ by Raymond Sokolov 2013-05-09T21:24:23Z

This is just one of the many unplumbed questions prompted by her new memoir. She Breaks Rules While Expecting Students to Follow Them 2017-12-08T05:00:00Z

In 2005, he brought out his memoir, “Between You and Me.” Mike Wallace, ?60 Minutes? Star Interviewer, Dies at 93 2012-04-08T14:57:40Z

In a scene toward the end of the memoir, Maynard, now in her forties, returns to Cornish, looking for some sense of closure. Joyce Maynard’s Second Chances 2019-02-08T05:00:00Z

Some of the better moments in this epistolary memoir involve discussions of sex, most of which are more or less unprintable here. Books of The Times: ‘Love, Nina,’ by Nina Stibbe 2014-04-21T21:47:49Z

There’s the memoir of a woman raised among survivalists, and a look at the Syrian civil war, and a deep investigative dive into the 2016 presidential election and possible Russian interference. 8 New Books We Recommend This Week 2018-04-12T04:00:00Z

As Strayed explained to Schulz, memoirs can be solipsistic if they shy away from the truth. Reese Witherspoon Isn't Nice and Wholesome in "Wild," and That’s What Makes it Great 2014-12-05T05:00:00Z

Reviewers of Ross' memoir of Shawn were aghast that she published the book while Shawn's widow was still alive; Cecille Shawn was a vigorous 92 at the time. Lillian Ross, celebrated New Yorker writer, dead at 99 2017-09-20T04:00:00Z

A certain soft, therapized tone weighs on this book and keeps it from becoming a good memoir instead of a merely tolerable one. Her Father Was a Drama Critic, Her Mother a Superstar Agent 2023-02-13T05:00:00Z

It’s a shatteringly beautiful memoir about his life on death row for 28 years for a crime he did not commit. Lupita Nyong’o Had a Guilty Pleasure on the Set of ‘12 Years a Slave’ 2019-10-03T04:00:00Z

Like Ms. Palin’s tour last year for her memoir “Going Rogue,” this promotional trip is carefully choreographed. The Palins Ensure They Stay in the News 2010-11-23T22:36:00Z

Like Knisley’s illustrated memoirs, her first graphic novel for kids is autobiographical, which means it includes the messy, sometimes harsh realities that characterize the actual lives of children. A Comics-Obsessed Cinderella Down on the Farm 2020-05-23T04:00:00Z

He said he hopes the memoir is not only read by Republicans, but that it will also inspire supporters of both parties to "enter public life." Tea party darling Sen. Marco Rubio writing memoir 2011-09-26T22:02:08Z

The recently discovered manuscript believed to be the first prison memoir by an African-American was swiftly acquired by Random House, the publisher said on Sunday. ArtsBeat: Random House Acquires 1800s Prison Memoir 2013-12-15T21:34:31Z

Her memoirs practically ignore her role as a playwright who blazed trails in a male-dominated field. Lillian Hellman is once again a presence in Washington 2017-01-26T05:00:00Z

There was a knockout memoir, “Giving Up the Ghost.” A Writer Who Stared Down Her Past, and the World’s, With Steely Resolve 2022-09-23T04:00:00Z

Since Megan McCain aired her many grievances with "The View" in a newly released excerpt from her forthcoming audio memoir, the "Bad Republican" author is making it clear she stands by her words. Meghan McCain is still milking "The View" plus more revealing moments from her late-night interview 2021-10-22T04:00:00Z

How much unassailable truth do readers expect from a memoir — of trauma, or even a pastoral account of childhood? Lena Dunham and the challenges of memoir 2014-12-10T05:00:00Z

AP: Was the idea for the book to share something of yourself beyond the usual memoir? Public Apology writer makes letter format a memoir 2013-03-18T18:39:14Z

Ms. Khan, who grew up in Birmingham, England, with a Pakistani father and Iranian mother, published “The Saffron Tales” in 2016, an Iranian cookbook tinged with the introspective notes of a memoir. A Writer Describes Palestinian Cuisine, and the World Around It 2019-02-04T05:00:00Z

Now he has written a memoir, The Book of My Lives, a tale that stretches from his early years in Sarajevo with his parents and younger sister to his recent life in Chicago. Nowhere man 2013-02-23T08:00:16Z

In “Sometimes There Is a Void,” his new memoir, his life and hard times are mostly played for wistful comedy. Books of The Times: ?Sometimes There Is a Void? ? By Zakes Mda ? Review 2012-01-05T21:44:22Z

AP: What do you hope listeners take away from the memoir about you, about life lessons? Original ‘SNL’ player’s memoir looks back in fondness, humor 2021-03-16T04:00:00Z

But a third memoir, “Who Killed My Father,” implicitly asks readers, and now playgoers, to rethink who’s responsible and reassign the blame. Review: In ‘Who Killed My Father,’ an Inquest and an Indictment 2022-05-23T04:00:00Z

The novelist William Burroughs once complained about autobiographers who conceal their lives in print, quipping that the Paul Bowles memoir “Without Stopping” would have been better titled “Without Telling.” Frederick Douglass in Full 2018-11-05T05:00:00Z

“People want a playful outlet,” said event curator Michelle Tea, author of cult favorite memoirs “Valencia” and “Rent Girl,” and most recently “Modern Tarot.” 'Experiment I' turns a literary event into performance art 2017-10-09T04:00:00Z

As a youth Beard had been entranced by Karen Blixen’s memoir “Out of Africa” and charmed Charles Darwin’s great-grandson, the explorer Quentin Keynes, into giving him a tour of the continent. Roaringly Adventurous, in the Wild and in the Bedroom 2022-10-09T04:00:00Z

Leigh’s is one of several recent moving memoirs about women’s struggles to conceive. 9 Great Books to Start Off September 2016-09-08T04:00:00Z

His memoir recounts the year he spent, not long ago, when he was well into his 60s, trying to learn the algebra, geometry and calculus that had confounded him decades before. Math Defeated Him in School. In His 60s, He Went Back for More. 2022-07-13T04:00:00Z

Feinman Todd, now the founding journalism director at Georgetown University, writes in her new memoir, “Pretend I’m Not Here,” that back then she was “constitutionally camera-shy, both literally and figuratively.” She said, he said: journalist accuses Woodward of ‘breathtaking betrayal.’ 2017-04-14T04:00:00Z

This has blossomed into a memoir of his childhood with the dogs as the vehicle, and he's thoroughly enjoying it. Books: "Redirect," and "Willpower" offers clues on rewriting life story 2011-11-07T15:17:03Z

Now, as she waited for her memoir to hit the world, she was already contemplating her next act of disclosure. Brandi Carlile Has Always Seen Herself Clearly. Now It’s Our Turn. 2021-04-01T04:00:00Z

Yet his memoir is girded by a beguiling delicacy of spirit. 11 New Books We Recommend This Week 2021-12-02T05:00:00Z

Early in your memoir, you reveal one of the most basic requirements to becoming a successful writer: stomaching the rollercoaster from failure to success and back to failure. Literary journalist Gail Sheehy on her 'Daring' career 2014-09-20T04:00:00Z

Earlier this year, Richards apologized to Jagger for derogatory comments he made about the lead singer in his 2010 memoir "Life", which caused a rift within the band. Rolling Stones celebrate 50th, hint about tour 2012-07-12T10:43:06Z

Mr. Noah, host of “The Daily Show” and author of the memoir “Born a Crime: Stories From a South African Childhood,” takes his latest stand-up special online. What’s on TV Tuesday: Oscar Nominees ‘Jackie’ and ‘Moana’ 2017-02-21T05:00:00Z

Her third book, "Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother," is a chatty, witty, intimate memoir of how she raised two daughters in hyper-severe Chinese style, despite the surrounding children of permissive American parents. 'Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother': Raising kids the 'hyper-severe' Chinese way 2011-01-14T19:44:06Z

Johnson made a video appearance at the meeting and argued that the memoir contained valuable lessons about consent and that it highlighted difficult issues that teenagers are likely to encounter in their lives. Book Ban Efforts Spread Across the U.S. 2022-01-30T05:00:00Z

So perhaps I am not the ideal reader for Lloyd Webber’s memoir, “Unmasked,” the first of what the composer suggests will be two volumes. Andrew Lloyd Webber, Hotheaded Perfectionist 2018-03-22T04:00:00Z

And for a firsthand account, read the sparkling memoir “Brown Girl Dreaming” with your daughter. Did Dr. Seuss Lie to Our Kids? 2019-08-01T04:00:00Z

Drawing Blood” sparkles as an artistic coming-of-age memoir of an artist who represents her generation as much as depicts it. When anger turns to ink 2016-01-07T05:00:00Z

He admits to an incident in which he hit Houston in his 2016 memoir “Every Little Step.” Bobby Brown on “The Bobby Brown Story,” mental health, and being in “the R&B ‘Lord of the... 2018-09-05T04:00:00Z

A film with a political angle is National Security, based on a memoir written by an opposition politician who faced torture under South Korea's military regime in the 1980s. South Korea invites northern neighbour to film festival 2012-10-03T08:15:39Z

It’s easy to see how “Born a Crime,” Trevor Noah’s funny and devastating memoir of growing up mixed race in South Africa, became a best seller. Trevor Noah Thinks Kids Can Handle the Truth 2019-04-26T04:00:00Z

His new memoir, “Drama: An Actor’s Education,” which comes out Tuesday, recounts in graceful, considered prose a life that after a few wrong turns is now happier and more well adjusted than most. John Lithgow?s Memoir ?Drama: An Actor?s Education? 2011-09-25T22:59:17Z

But Mr. Keys good-naturedly acknowledged that his memoir was also a way to shift attention from an escapade famous in rock ’n’ roll lore. Pop: Gregg Allman and Other Pop Memoirists 2012-07-27T16:00:00Z

He wrote two memoirs, It’s Sid Bernstein Calling and Not Just the Beatles, gave frequent talks about his life and even recorded an album of duets. Sid Bernstein, Who Brought Beatles to Shea, Dies 2013-08-21T19:45:11Z

Grief memoirs frequently take displacement as their form. Grief and Geology Both Take Time in ‘The Book of Unconformities’ 2020-09-22T04:00:00Z

Accounts of menstruation, childbirth, menopause and gender transition howl through the worlds of theater and television, memoir and art. The Wild Woman Awakens 2019-12-17T05:00:00Z

Hyperion announced Friday that it's publishing her memoir, which is tentatively called "Barefoot Stories." Sissy Spacek writing memoir, 'Barefoot Stories' 2011-01-14T15:43:15Z

In Telgemeier’s third graphic memoir, Raina, already struggling with the challenges of navigating fourth grade, develops a full-blown anxiety disorder, which begins to take over her life until a kind therapist helps. The 25 Best Children’s Books of 2019 2019-12-02T05:00:00Z

Every Monday until Labor Day, we'll recommend a different book to Guardian readers to enjoy and award them with prizes including best memoir, best mystery, or best non-fiction. Summer reading: Guardian US journalists share their tips 2013-07-03T19:14:59Z

Mr. Powell is also the author of “My American Journey,” a memoir published by Random House in 1995. ArtsBeat Blog: Colin Powell Book Is Coming in May 2011-09-25T19:00:18Z

"I'm beginning to write this memoir," Rushdie told Reuters in an interview. Author Rushdie writing memoir of years in hiding 2010-10-11T08:56:00Z

Their son, Rocky Lang, a writer and producer, wrote in a memoir that he once woke up to find the Beatles and Barbra Streisand eating cookies and drinking milk in their kitchen. Monica Lewis, singer-actress known as voice of Chiquita bananas, dies at 93 2015-06-13T04:00:00Z

Read my two memoirs: "The Mighty Queens of Freeville" and "Strangers Tend to Tell Me Things," available wherever books are sold or borrowed. Perspective | Ask Amy: Teen wonders how to stop offensive friends 2019-02-17T05:00:00Z

In your 2016 memoir, “In Such Good Company,” you wrote about trying to maintain ladylike qualities while making demands of your male staff. Carol Burnett Taps Into Her Inner Child for Adult Advice 2018-05-04T04:00:00Z

People magazine reports Love detailed a 1968 encounter with cult leader Charles Manson in a new memoir set for release in Sept. 2016. Beach Boys' Mike Love talks encounter with Charles Manson 2016-09-01T04:00:00Z

In her 1979 memoir, “Brando for Breakfast,” she called the cinema superstar “a balding, paunchy hypochondriac, a middle-aged, wheezing Superman; an egomaniac, a rock upon which other egos founder.” Anna Kashfi, actress and first wife of Marlon Brando, dies at 80 2015-08-27T04:00:00Z

Wilde married Hawking after he was diagnosed with motor neurone disease and the film is based on her 2008 memoir Travelling to Infinity: My Life with Stephen. Felicity Jones: 'Awards are a bonus' 2015-01-01T05:00:00Z

As the studio era ended, the movie business changed inalterably; Hunter, as he says in his memoir, had to bite the hand that fed him stardom. Tab Hunter: how Hollywood's boy next door became a gay icon 2018-07-10T04:00:00Z

I don’t think there are any more bad memoirs than there are bad novels: Most novels are bad and most memoirs are bad and most poems are bad and most movies are bad… Mary Karr on the “loser, outsider weirdos” of memoir and skipping the David Foster Wallace movie: “The whole St. David thing … it’s a little hard to take” 2015-09-27T04:00:00Z

And now, at the age of 37, he has written a memoir, “Shortest Way Home.” A Memoir From the Young, Gay Mayor of South Bend Running for President 2019-01-24T05:00:00Z

The iconic singer, actor, and director Barbra Streisand is tackling her own life story in a memoir that will be published in 2017, Viking announced Wednesday. Barbra Streisand Is Writing a Memoir 2015-05-20T04:00:00Z

“All You Can Ever Know” is now the title of Chung’s memoir. Nicole Chung’s Adoption Memoir, “All You Can Ever Know,” Is an Ode to Sisterly Love 2018-10-09T04:00:00Z

This may be a memoir in “black and white,” but its portrait of one black woman’s life is composed almost entirely of generalities. Books of The Times: Brooke Newman?s ?Jenniemae & James?: Dad and the Maid 2010-04-01T21:47:00Z

Both memoirs are beautiful, disturbing, and inspiring, I recommend them without reserve, and I feel very sorry about the rage I briefly harbored toward Mr. Flynn, who is a great, great writer5. You can judge a book by its title 2013-04-01T18:27:00Z

It’s the same when she’s speaking about her best-selling 2005 memoir “The Glass Castle,” whose child protagonist — Jeannette Walls — was the daughter of a nomadic, often jobless and homeless alcoholic and his painter wife. ‘The Glass Castle’ writer Jeannette Walls on the movie version of her difficult life with daddy. 2017-08-10T04:00:00Z

Masterful bureaucratic survivor that he was until he ran out of room to maneuver, Rumsfeld delivers a memoir that is all about shifting blame and settling scores. Books: Donald Rumsfeld on being the smartest guy in the room 2011-02-08T08:01:00Z

Her argument is elegantly detailed here alongside a deeply personal memoir, with her story and that of the forest tightly interwoven. The Woman Who Looked at a Forest and Saw a Community 2021-05-03T04:00:00Z

Kalanithi writes in great detail about his years of training, and in these parts of his memoir, you might forget for a minute that you are reading the words of a dying man. ‘When Breath Becomes Air’: Young doctor’s last words of wisdom, hope 2016-01-08T05:00:00Z

There are a lot of tears in this memoir. ‘In Love,’ a Novelist’s Powerful Memoir About a Happy Marriage and an Assisted Suicide 2022-03-01T05:00:00Z

Setzer says he hasn’t read Phantom’s memoir, and these days, the drummer downplays the tension. They became MTV stars by playing rockabilly. Now, 40 years later, the Stray Cats are ready for a comeback. 2019-05-21T04:00:00Z

Seven years ago, Vanessa Redgrave teamed up with Joan Didion on a Broadway adaptation of the latter’s 2005 National Book Award-winning memoir “The Year of Magical Thinking.” Joan Didion's 'Blue Nights' to be performed by Vanessa Redgrave 2014-10-21T04:00:00Z

Good fiction is more honest than most memoirs. 'Townie': Andre Dubus III's memoir of growing up literate and tough 2011-03-10T23:04:33Z

This memoir from a young survivor of acute myeloid leukemia provides an unlikely road map to the new not-normal of the pandemic era. 12 New Books We Recommend This Week 2021-02-25T05:00:00Z

Rather, it is a novel masquerading as a memoir. ‘Sweet Caress’ review: A portrait of a photographer’s tumultuous career 2015-09-11T04:00:00Z

Sebold’s memoir describes her assailant in unsparing detail, and alleges that he played a role in arranging the police lineup. Anthony Broadwater was wrongfully convicted four decades ago — and fought to get his life back 2021-12-02T05:00:00Z

Ann Leary is the author of three novels and a memoir. How an Almost-Divorce Kept Them Together 2019-10-18T04:00:00Z

The fiasco has been dissected ad nauseam by outsiders including journalists, religious scholars and even a congressional committee, but of the nine Branch Davidians who survived the assault, only two have published memoirs. An Audiobook Gives New Life to the Haunting Memoir of a Waco Survivor 2018-05-18T04:00:00Z

The demand for comfort viewing — whether actually felt by audiences or just assumed by producers — has inevitably brought us a new adaptation of the James Herriot veterinary memoirs. Winter TV Preview: 21 Shows to Watch 2020-12-31T05:00:00Z

Kardashian West contributed a foreword to what Harper is calling an “honest, faith-driven memoir” and a “deep look into the systemic issue of mass incarceration.” Inmate freed with help by Kim Kardashian West gets book deal 2019-02-06T05:00:00Z

London, who in person is friendly, informal and bubbly as Champagne, said that she was originally approached by her publisher to write a memoir. Stacy London tells readers 'The Truth About Style' 2012-10-28T14:16:04Z

In a TV interview, Noam Chomsky noted that Mr. Kyle wrote in his memoir that he was fighting “savage despicable evil.” ‘American Sniper’ Fuels a War on the Home Front 2015-01-28T05:00:00Z

The Lusty Lady shut down in 2013, but a new memoir recalls its upstart heyday, and the enduring lessons of collective action. How working in a strip club taught "Neon Girls" author lessons about unions and solidarity 2020-06-18T04:00:00Z

And it's interesting because your last two were a children's book and a memoir. Jennifer Weiner was right about sexism, media and women writers: "We were told we were lying" 2019-06-17T04:00:00Z

Her song Art Groupie began with the line: "I'll never write my memoirs." Grace Jones to tell her life story 2013-09-18T16:55:36Z

Mr. Stanley’s memoir, “Man of Constant Sorrow,” took its title from a song that had come to represent the joy he found in preserving the most traditional aspects of bluegrass music. Ralph Stanley, bluegrass master, dies at 89 2016-06-23T04:00:00Z

“It’s a memoir that’s about so much more than an ailment. Things that are mundane and things that are sublime,” she added. Sarah Ruhl, the Celebrated Playwright, Will Publish a Memoir 2019-10-10T04:00:00Z

Many of the boldface names in his memoir belong to the musicians, fashion designers and artists he’s commissioned: Lou Reed, Cindy Sherman. Stephen Petronio Company Marks Its 30th Anniversary 2014-04-04T19:50:59Z

He was previously the co-author of the memoir "Special Heart." Fox News host Bret Baier working on book about Eisenhower 2016-06-20T04:00:00Z

Pierce found a similar quote in Thomas’s memoir “My Grandfather’s Son,” which reads, “Old Man Can’t is dead — I helped bury him.” Does HBO’s ‘Confirmation’ favor Anita Hill? Kerry Washington and others say no way. 2016-04-07T04:00:00Z

McBride, a transgender activist and national press secretary for the Human Rights Campaign, is the author of the memoir “Tomorrow Will Be Different: Love, Loss and the Fight for Trans Equality.” Look Ahead: The hottest Seattle events for March 2018 2018-02-23T05:00:00Z

He has raided memoirs, magazines and interviews for material; he’s also rummaged through forgotten pamphlets and yellowed correspondence. ‘Art in America 1945-1970,’ Edited by Jed Perl 2014-10-07T04:00:00Z

The Microsoft co-founder encourages the gift of reading with these five titles, which range from a memoir about the power of education to a guide to facing modern-day fears. Bill Gates Shares the 5 Best Books He Read This Year 2018-12-03T05:00:00Z

The tone — a physician excited about his specialty — takes a sharp turn from his first two memoirs. A History of the Heart, That Most Vital of Organs 2018-11-05T05:00:00Z

Surely no body of mortal flesh could undergo the quicksilver transformations achieved by this singular performer, in a melting memoir of a production that upends and scrambles all definitions of gender. Theater Listings for Jan. 15-21 2016-01-14T05:00:00Z

Next month, Oberon Books will publish his memoir, Clinging to the Iceberg: Writing for a Living on the Stage and in Hollywood. ‘Marlon Brando was my idol but he turned into a monster. He sabotaged my film’ 2017-09-16T04:00:00Z

The couple pen dueling memoirs in the book, not in the film. From page to soundstage: Award-contending films based on books 2015-01-17T05:00:00Z

The time she found herself embroiled in a controversy over a detail in her memoir. Lena Dunham Cleans Her Closet, for a Cause 2017-07-09T04:00:00Z

Her memoir, dedicated “to all those who didn’t make it out,” contributes to a rich and painful body of memory-keeping that grows all the time. The Varieties of Chinese Repression 2022-02-22T05:00:00Z

At the Los Angeles Times Festival of Books in April, Woodson explained her choice to combine poetry and memoir in "Brown Girl Dreaming." Jacqueline Woodson named the new 'young people's poet laureate' 2015-06-03T04:00:00Z

“I don’t got time for a memoir, girl,” she told WWD in October. Instead of a New Album, Rihanna Drops a Book 2019-11-19T05:00:00Z

The title of Spears’s memoir is a lyric from her 2001 power ballad “I’m Not a Girl, Not Yet a Woman.” Watching Britney Spears, as a Girl and a Woman 2023-10-30T04:00:00Z

This is part memoir and part history of a high school dropout who lies about his age and serves in the Korean War at age 15. Review | A former congressman asked his old colleagues for book suggestions. Here’s their list. 2017-12-05T05:00:00Z

That was true to Northrup’s memoirs, but a useful truth for some of the movie’s marketers, who used Pitt’s image on posters instead of Ejiofor’s. “Selma’s” snub, Amazon’s “Point of Honor” and Hollywood’s white savior problem 2015-01-15T05:00:00Z

Jollett spoke to Salon about the Airborne Toxic Event's return, how his memoir came together, and why bands such as The Cure and The Smiths meant to much to him growing up. How Airborne Toxic Event's album "Hollywood Park" became the "soundtrack" to Mikel Jollett's memoir 2020-05-26T04:00:00Z

Scott Stossel, editor of The Atlantic, whose “My Age of Anxiety” helped kick off the anxiety memoir boom three years ago, urged people to pause, not for deep cleansing breaths, but for historical perspective. Prozac Nation Is Now the United States of Xanax 2017-06-10T04:00:00Z

I was assuming that it was going to be a memoir and that it was going to delve into some really dark things, and the writing and content really took me by surprise. Autism in the insular world of ultra-Orthodox Judaism: “There were superstitions and things that God knows how many other mothers had to deal with” 2015-08-01T04:00:00Z

Think of "Unfaithful Music & Disappearing Ink," then, less as memoir than extended riff, not a poem but a song cycle, lyrics written in a notebook over 40 years. Elvis Costello's aim is truth in memoir 'Unfaithful Music & Disappearing Ink' 2015-10-15T04:00:00Z

“That’s the tricky part,” says Theresa Ruth Howard, a former DTH dancer who founded MoBBallet.org to collect the memoirs of Blacks in ballet. Perspective | Black women are finally shattering the glass ceiling in dance 2021-08-16T04:00:00Z

Geissler herself worked at an Amazon warehouse on a short-term contract in 2010, but, despite the close likeness between the book’s protagonist and its author, “Seasonal Associate” is not a memoir in the conventional sense. “Seasonal Associate” Is a Labor Memoir for the Amazon Era 2018-11-19T05:00:00Z

Molly’s memoir is a missive from a childhood in crisis. My dad, the bank robber: ‘He never told the truth’ 2016-10-15T04:00:00Z

In “First Love and Early Sorrows,” a lovely little memoir that appeared in Partisan Review in 1981, the sociologist Daniel Bell recalls being tempted by Communism in the early nineteen-thirties. The Plight of the Political Convert 2019-01-23T05:00:00Z

Robert Carlock wrote the screenplay, based on “The Taliban Shuffle,” the memoir by Kim Barker, now an investigative reporter for The New York Times. What’s on TV Saturday 2016-06-18T04:00:00Z

Michael Chabon’s new book is described on the title page as “a novel,” in an author’s note as a “memoir” and in the acknowledgments as a “pack of lies.” Michael Chabon Returns With a Searching Family Saga 2016-11-18T05:00:00Z

And I remind him how, in his memoir about growing up in Cuba, No Way Home, he describes stealing fruit. Carlos Acosta 2010-03-28T00:05:00Z

Three kinds of narratives that frequently seem bloated when they arrive between hard covers are biographies, accounts of disasters and illness memoirs. Critic's Notebook: Kindle Singles, Genre Between Magazine Articles and Books 2012-03-06T13:00:00Z

News of the memoir was initially reported in the New York Times. Barbra Streisand Is Writing a Memoir 2015-05-20T04:00:00Z

“Our fortunes were intertwined,” he writes in his first memoir. Production of a Lifetime: Whitney Houston and Clive Davis 2017-09-30T04:00:00Z

Although a former lover, Joyce Maynard, and his daughter, Margaret, both wrote widely discussed memoirs, enough mystery remained about his life, including the possibility of unpublished manuscripts, to leave an opening for Mr. Salerno. ‘Salinger,’ a Documentary Film 2013-05-08T21:24:06Z

It courses through her new memoir, “M Train,” like a dark, steaming river, connecting her various adventures. The Theology of Patti Smith 2015-10-06T04:00:00Z

“Today we need to go back to our roots,” Mr. Glazunov said in an interview shortly after his memoir “Russia Crucified” was published in 1996. Ilya Glazunov, Painter Entranced by Russia’s Past, Dies at 87 2017-07-12T04:00:00Z

The final installment in Lewis’s civil rights trilogy completes one of the most powerful graphic memoirs ever. Best graphic novels of 2016 2016-11-17T05:00:00Z

A whole subset of memoir exists devoted to the unfortunately yet popularly named "misery memoir," telling especially difficult or traumatic stories. The real reason Prince Harry spilled his dark secrets in "Spare" – whether you want to know or not 2023-01-18T05:00:00Z

In all he wrote 10 novels, five short-story collections and several memoirs. Austin Clarke, Canadian Author Who Explored Black Experience, Dies at 81 2016-06-27T04:00:00Z

In the memoir, Amanda and Anna Kloots recount Mr. Cordero’s prolonged medical crisis that spring, which included the amputation of one of his legs in an effort to contain an unrelenting infection. The Story of a Famous Covid Widow 2021-06-10T04:00:00Z

The boy’s name is Michael, as is the author’s, and both sailed to England from Sri Lanka; but this lovely, shimmering book of Michael Ondaatje’s is no memoir. Books of The Times: ?The Cat?s Table,? by Michael Ondaatje - Review 2011-10-05T22:00:20Z

The only redemptive feeling it prompted was admiration for Fragoso's unwavering candour: she is a talented writer and her memoir is executed without judgment or shame. Tiger, Tiger: What is the point of reading this memoir of abuse? 2011-03-27T00:05:57Z

The memoir of today comes with an expectation of truth -- one that, by the way, anybody who's heard of Google can check up on. James Frey's infuriating return to "Oprah" 2011-05-16T22:30:00Z

There are two great shadows in this memoir. Country Girl by Edna O'Brien – review 2012-10-12T21:55:03Z

Rancic wrote in her memoir, adding that when she confronted O'Connell, he said, "Yeah, I know. I'm so sorry. I don't know what happened.'" Giuliana Rancic: Jerry O'Connell cheated on me with Ginger Spice, Romijn 2015-04-06T04:00:00Z

Picking just one chapter from my memoir was akin to a parent having to choose a favorite child. A transgender Army bride in the ’80s 2018-09-01T04:00:00Z

The suicidal-architect conceit turns out to be something of a facade for a blend of memoir, travelogue and philosophical tract. The Buildings That Drove Their Creators to Despair 2022-09-18T04:00:00Z

So, the very line last of James Frey's "Million Little Pieces," the bestselling addiction memoir, once lauded by Oprah, is: "James has never relapsed." Alice Sebold's "Lucky" and the problem with memoirs with happy endings 2021-12-05T05:00:00Z

There was, in short, "no aspect of service that was not her or her colleagues' responsibility," writes John Maxtone-Graham, editor of Jessop's memoir, "Titanic Survivor." 7 facts about "Titanic" survivor Violet Jessop 2022-04-23T04:00:00Z

As their competitive spirits get the best of them, Raquel and Vito hire rival assistants to help them pen their memoirs. Renee Fleming makes debut in a play at Williamstown Theatre Festival 2014-07-21T04:00:00Z

Robbins also directed and choreographed "Gypsy," based on the memoirs of stripper Gypsy Rose Lee. 'Gypsy' playwright Arthur Laurents dies in NYC 2011-05-06T03:47:09Z

Brian Turner is the author of the memoir “My Life as a Foreign Country” and directs the MFA program at Sierra Nevada College. Review | The ‘most wounded man in the history of war’ comes home in ‘Waiting for Eden’ 2018-09-26T04:00:00Z

Her last book was the memoir "Mom & Me & Mom," published in 2013. Maya Angelou stamp to be released by U.S. Postal Service 2015-02-23T05:00:00Z

Not a lot of political staffers publish memoirs at age 30; hers is peppered with advice about getting ahead. She’s chasing a Washington dream. He’s the Night Mayor. 2021-05-07T04:00:00Z

Her genteel memoir, “Love, Life and Elephants,” has an animal population big and personable enough to fill a zoo. Books of The Times: ‘Granddad, There’s a Head on the Beach’ and Other Summer Reads 2012-05-24T22:43:29Z

You got hold of Jordan Belfort’s memoir, detailing his financial fraud, when it was still in galley form, right? The Oscar Hunt: For DiCaprio, ‘Wolf’ Is ‘Reflection of the Truth’ 2014-02-13T22:40:31Z

“I don’t believe that the Prince of Wales understands architecture,” Rogers wrote in his 2017 memoir, “A Place for All People.” The Town That Charles Built 2022-09-23T04:00:00Z

This memoir, which lacks the richness of Berlin’s fiction, had been left uncompleted. The Revival of the Great Lucia Berlin Continues Apace 2018-10-29T04:00:00Z

Dreams dominate Smith’s third and latest memoir, “Year of the Monkey.” Patti Smith Plumbs Her Dreams in ‘Year of the Monkey’ 2019-09-24T04:00:00Z

“Somewhere Towards the End” is a memoir she published at 91. Nina Sankovitch, Allaying Grief Through Books 2011-08-12T20:52:47Z

My standard practice upon hearing about a new cookbook or culinary memoir has become to check online at Bookshop or Amazon. From screens to stovetops: Exploring the tactile delight of culinary bookshops 2023-10-24T04:00:00Z

The uproar did nothing to slow the sales of Frey’s two memoirs, and now he runs a thriving book packaging company with a sideline in movie and TV development. We can’t handle the truth: “Primates of Park Avenue,” “On the Run” and nonfiction fact-checking blood baths 2015-06-09T04:00:00Z

Going under the name Low Down, the film will be based on a memoir written by Albany's daughter, Amy, titled Low Down: Junk, Jazz, and Other Fairy Tales From Childhood. Mark Ruffalo 'to play jazz pianist Joe Albany' 2011-03-14T15:24:11Z

What Can I Do? is a how-to guide and memoir of her protest campaign, known as Fire Drill Friday. Jane Fonda: ‘I'm very rarely afraid. Maybe emotional intimacy scares me’ 2020-09-05T04:00:00Z

“The Twelve Tribes of Hattie” was written in Iowa in just under two years, after Ms. Mathis abandoned a fictionalized memoir that never jelled. Buzz Over Ayana Mathis’s ‘Twelve Tribes of Hattie’ 2012-12-10T22:42:33Z

In his memoir, he paints a vivid picture of life as a hustler. Jay-Z: good from the hood 2010-11-20T00:03:00Z

“I have often wondered whether my unremitting search for precision in my writing was fueled by this outburst,” Dr. Gay wrote in his 1998 memoir “My German Question: Growing up in Nazi Berlin.” Peter Gay, historian who wrote about Freud and the Enlightenment, dies 2015-05-12T04:00:00Z

“I believe that music has the power to inspire a renewal of human consciousness, culture, and politics,” Adams wrote in “Silences So Deep,” an eloquent memoir published in 2020. John Luther Adams, Praying for the Earth in Music 2023-03-29T04:00:00Z

Skoyles is a professor at Emerson College in Boston, with several volumes of poetry and a memoir to his credit. Poet offers literary feast in ‘A Moveable Famine’ 2014-06-30T04:00:00Z

Laura Bush, in her memoir, said she was “amazed by the sheer number of designer clothes that I was expected to buy” as first lady. First lady’s fashions raise question: who pays? 2014-06-02T04:00:00Z

Instagram turned out to be a refuge, as well as a kind of first draft for a memoir Mr. McNally’s writing. Keith McNally Stirs the Pot 2021-07-17T04:00:00Z

It’s a proper memoir in the sense that it eventually gets his story told, all 42 years of it thus far. Books of The Times: Questlove Publishes His Memoir, ‘Mo’ Meta Blues’ 2013-06-25T22:04:39Z

“Eight Is Enough,” based on a memoir by Tom Braden, starred Mr. Van Patten as Tom Bradford, the patriarch of a family of eight children. Dick Van Patten, Father on ‘Eight Is Enough,’ Dies at 86 2015-06-23T04:00:00Z

This timely, arresting graphic memoir series, mostly completed before the congressman and civil rights leader’s death, picks up where the trilogy “March” left off. The 25 Best Children’s Books of 2021 2021-12-03T05:00:00Z

Irish singer and known rabble-rouser Sinead O’Connor is penning a memoir, her publisher announced on Wednesday. Sinead O'Connor Will Reveal All in a Memoir 2014-10-08T04:00:00Z

This book is aimed at a mass audience, driven by anecdote and statistic, memoir and photograph, with all the giants of American history in their respective places. The American Past: A History of Contradictions 2018-09-14T04:00:00Z

The show, about a dying widow working on her memoirs at her Italian estate, where a handsome young stranger mysteriously happens by, has been in the offing for a while. The Week Ahead: Jan. 30 ? Feb.5 2011-01-30T02:30:03Z

Vance's widely praised memoir detailing his dramatic class migration from a midsize city in Ohio to the hallowed halls of Yale Law School. The chattering classes got the "Hillbilly Elegy" book wrong—and they’re getting the movie wrong, too 2020-12-05T05:00:00Z

If anyone is entitled to pepper his memoir with New Yorker cartoons, it’s the cartoon editor of The New Yorker. Books of The Times: Bob Mankoff’s ‘How About Never — Is Never Good for You?’ 2014-03-19T20:53:31Z

The title of his boisterous memoir, “Me, the Mob, and the Music,” is self-explanatory. Beach Books: New Books by Tommy James, Dave Barry and John Grisham 2010-05-27T22:12:00Z

This is an accomplished and searing political memoir — one woman’s poignant and pointed eulogy for a nephew who deserved more than passing notoriety as the “boy on the beach.” Review | After a photo of her nephew’s drowned body went viral, a Syrian woman tells the family’s story 2018-08-20T04:00:00Z

“By exploring the truth of that past with such integrity, this memoir enriches our future.” 10 New Books We Recommend This Week 2020-10-01T04:00:00Z

Rushdie’s memoir has done this perhaps more successfully than any lightly fictionalized version would have permitted, recreating him as author, narrator, and protagonist at once: the character known and immortalized as he. “Joseph Anton”: Memoir as noir 2012-11-05T21:58:00Z

In an unusually fruitful bit of self-revelation, Gilbert begins her memoir with the realization that she doesn’t want to be both a mother and the primary breadwinner in her household. Sheila Heti gets sex wrong 2012-09-28T23:30:00Z

Part memoir and part scientific exploration, the book takes a hard look at what keeps people ticking when things look bleak. Gen X and the big self-help lie: In furious middle age, a “Life Reimagined” feels impossibly out of reach 2016-04-09T04:00:00Z

By far the best book about hockey is still “The Game,” a memoir by the Hall of Fame goalie Ken Dryden that was published almost 30 years ago. Relocating Drama From Ice to Stage 2011-02-27T23:26:57Z

The new epistolary memoirs, however, are less interested in stitching a life into a tidy narrative shroud than in ripping it from its seams. In Letters to the World, a New Wave of Memoirs Draws on the Intimate 2019-10-16T04:00:00Z

Like all successful memoirs, this one is filled with emotion, in this case an overwhelming sadness at the loss. GuardianUS summer reads – best memoir: Run, Brother, Run: A Memoir of a Murder in My Family 2013-07-01T18:24:17Z

This section of the memoir doubles as a brief lesson in history and literature. “The Twice-Born,” A Searching Memoir About India’s Identity Crisis 2019-03-30T04:00:00Z

Weedman honed her comedy skills on "The Daily Show" on Comedy Central, as well as in memoirs that include this year's "Miss Fortune: Fresh Perspectives on Having It All from Someone Who Is Not Okay." Lauren Weedman and the art of oversharing: New one-woman show from 'Looking' actress 2016-09-28T04:00:00Z

Ultimately, however, "When Women Were Birds" is fable/memoir/morality tale sans proscriptions. 'When Women Were Birds': Grappling with a mother's parting gift 2012-04-11T22:26:06Z

Cheryl Strayed, who wrote the best-selling memoir “Wild,” is helping to popularize nature’s healing abilities. Seeking refuge in the wild: Hiking in Chilean Patagonia

Then he met the label head who, Mr. Manilow said in a memoir, “looked more like a banker than a music man” and told him that his album was “nice” but needed hits. Production of a Lifetime: Whitney Houston and Clive Davis 2017-09-30T04:00:00Z

“By … the machine of writing. The machine of making a memoir. But it shouldn’t!” Great Draft, Dad. I Have Some Notes. 2019-10-12T04:00:00Z

He titled his 2011 memoir “Known and Unknown,” but hindsight produced no regret. Perspective | ‘Nothing ever ends’: Sorting through Rumsfeld’s knowns and unknowns 2021-07-01T04:00:00Z

Lang’s memoir about her relationship with her aging mother begins simply, sweetly. With Mothers and Daughters, It’s Always Complicated 2020-04-30T04:00:00Z

Should he release a memoir through Winning Team, it would be a test for how a new publisher could manage sales and distribution for a book which could well sell millions of copies. Trump photo book ‘Our Journey Together’ coming next month 2021-11-19T05:00:00Z

Indeed, the memoir — delivered in dry, often truculent prose — turns out to be mostly a predictable mix of spin, stonewalling, score settling and highly selective reminiscences. Books of The Times: Dick Cheney Tells His Side in Memoir ?In My Time? - Review 2011-08-25T21:28:58Z

Prince Harry discussed his new memoir, “Spare,” on “The Late Show” on Tuesday, with Stephen Colbert offering Harry a cocktail at the start. Prince Harry Engages in ‘Group Therapy’ With a Glass of Tequila 2023-01-11T05:00:00Z

Greenlights is not a memoir, though it tells true stories from his life in chronological order. Zen and the art of torso maintenance: Matthew McConaughey's guide to life 2020-10-26T04:00:00Z

For many would-be diarists, the annual inserts serve as a substitute journal, often filed on a bookshelf like a set of 19th-century memoirs. A Paper Calendar? It?s 2011 2011-07-29T21:10:49Z

Her crime spree is retold in this engrossing dramedy, based on Israel’s memoir. What’s on TV Saturday: ‘Can You Ever Forgive Me?’ and ‘The Jungle Book’ 2019-08-31T04:00:00Z

Stewart also wrote the script for the adaptation of Bahari's 2011 memoir "Then They Came for Me: A Family's Story of Love, Captivity and Survival." "Daily Show" host Stewart will take leave to direct feature film 2013-03-05T22:36:02Z

About three years later, her wry and heart-aching memoir about her ordeal, “Pretty Is What Changes,” was published. They Wrote Their Love Story While Scripting Others 2021-10-29T04:00:00Z

Here, she reads the family memoir of her radical philosopher father and an account of her mother's suicide attempt, extra-marital affair and birth of an illegitimate daughter. This week's new theatre and dance 2012-06-08T23:05:29Z

“I carry the past inside me like an accordion, like a book of picture postcards that people bring home as souvenirs from foreign cities, small and neat,” she wrote in her memoir. Heda Kovaly, Czech Who Wrote of Totalitarianism, Is Dead at 91 2010-12-09T05:29:00Z

And there’s another nettlesome problem that Rhimes’s memoir shares with her television shows: lost plot points. In ‘Year of Yes,’ Shonda Rhimes shares tips from her own enlightenment 2015-11-03T05:00:00Z

Mr. Edward’s former aide, Andrew Young, drove in the final nails with his account of the cover-up of the affair in a campaign memoir, “The Politician.” TV Watch: One Woman?s ?Truth?: Rielle Hunter Talks to Oprah 2010-04-29T22:45:00Z

Hill’s memoir is about how, while in high school, he learned he had a condition that left him legally blind. 13 New Books We Recommend This Week 2021-08-12T04:00:00Z

At the same time, Roberto Rossellini’s “Rome, Open City” heralded a new naturalistic Italian cinema, and like that movie, Levi’s memoir was an international success. ‘Christ Stopped at Eboli’: An Italian Saga Returns in Full 2019-04-02T04:00:00Z

That movie is also called “The Souvenir,” which makes “Part II” a kind of making-of pseudo-documentary as well as a memoir, a coming-of-age story and a time capsule of the later Thatcher years. The Future of Movies Collides With the Past at the New York Film Festival 2021-10-05T04:00:00Z

Did they not tell it via a large profile in the Cut, Meghan’s podcast, “Archetypes,” or Harry’s upcoming memoir, advertised as a work of “raw, unflinching honesty”? Perspective | Meghan and Harry made a fairy-tale escape. They still seem trapped. 2022-12-16T05:00:00Z

A book by her — promoted around the country by her — would surely draw large crowds of curious people, including those elusive younger readers who typically show little interest in political memoirs. Tired of Trump books? A new wave of politicians could bring a fresh crop of titles. 2018-11-07T05:00:00Z

In his memoir, “This Wheel’s on Fire,” Helm said some hard feelings about Robertson also included his getting songwriting credits on Band songs that other members considered group efforts. Levon Helm, Key Member of The Band, Dies at 71 2012-04-19T19:46:35Z

It was suggested to her - on more than a few occasions - that she "was at that age to write her memoirs." Known for photos, Vogue's Coddington pens memoir 2012-11-20T20:31:14Z

She is part of a group of designers who are using the video game format to focus on moments that were once more likely to be explored in memoirs, fiction, poetry or indie-film dramas. No Guns, No Dragons: Her Video Games Capture Private Moments 2022-07-04T04:00:00Z

The Tallow Candle is the most important Andersen find since the 1920s, when his memoirs were discovered at the Royal Library, said Politiken. Hans Christian Andersen's first fairytale found 2012-12-13T12:01:07Z

Now, after multiple attempted comebacks and a couple of retirements, Collins re-emerges with a memoir: “Not Dead Yet.” Phil Collins Wants You to Know He Isn’t Dead Yet 2016-11-17T05:00:00Z

Ai Weiwei, smasher of precious artifacts and architect of the Beijing Bird’s Nest Olympic arena, has penned a memoir covering not just his own life, but a century of his country’s history. 10 books to read in November 2021-11-02T04:00:00Z

The first 200 pages of Jamison’s sprawling new memoir, “The Recovering,” follow the romantic formula of life as a literary alcoholic. Can Sobriety Be as Interesting as Addiction? A Writer Wonders 2018-04-17T04:00:00Z

In her memoir "Inside Out," Moore looked back on her relationship with Freddy and revealed that she was unfaithful to the musician before their wedding night: 15 celebrities in Hollywood who got engaged — and married — at a really young age 2023-04-14T04:00:00Z

Why, in 2022, is it still fair game to trot out all the old, worn prejudices against memoirs? Reviewer Bias, Imperial Tongues and Other Letters to the Editor 2022-03-17T04:00:00Z

Beck said that he modelled his own memoir on “The Autobiography,” telling one interviewer, years later, “Malcolm X defined the atrocity that pimpin’ is.” The Fires That Forged Iceberg Slim 2015-08-19T04:00:00Z

Because let's face it, the term "prison memoirs" doesn't exactly fill any prospective reader with joy. Why I won't be reading Vicky Pryce's prison memoir 2013-05-14T15:06:56Z

And, of course, her best-known work, “An Unquiet Mind,” a memoir she published in 1995 in which she went public with her own manic depression, at considerable personal cost. After Writing About Mental Illness, Kay Redfield Jamison Turns to Healers 2023-05-22T04:00:00Z

In the meantime, his new album "How To Become Clairvoyant" serves as a good appetizer for the memoir because it boasts a selection of heavily autobiographical tunes. Rocker Robbie Robertson set to write memoirs 2011-03-08T19:12:37Z

In fact, in his memoir, Sullenberger reflects that he was “buoyed by the fact that investigators determined that Jeff and I made appropriate choices at every step”. Sullied: with Sully, Clint Eastwood is weaponizing a hero 2016-09-12T04:00:00Z

Thiong’o’s latest book is a memoir, “Birth of a Dream Weaver: A Writer’s Awakening”; he was shortlisted for 2009 Man Booker International Prize. Poetry on vinyl, the zines of Instagram and more from the literary web 2017-05-25T04:00:00Z

If you’re marking the fifth anniversary of recording artist Michael Jackson’s death by reading the recently released memoir by his bodyguards, you may be surprised to learn that Jackson loathed recording with contemporary artists. Five years later, Michael Jackson’s still exploitable 2014-06-25T04:00:00Z

This generosity of spirit and unwillingness to condemn are the most endearing traits of “Call the Midwife,” based on the memoirs of Jennifer Worth, a nurse who sadly died before the first episode was broadcast. ‘Call the Midwife’ Deserves More Respect for Its Depth and Daring 2016-05-23T04:00:00Z

Avishai's conversational study mixes memoir, historically contextualised analysis of themes such as Jewish identity and psychoanalysis, and sparely illuminating comments from Roth himself. Non-fiction roundup – reviews 2012-08-24T07:00:04Z

There's a quote from Patricia Hampl I really love: "The self is not the subject of memoir, it is the instrument of memoir." "Everyone can and should get our own 'Predator,'" says writer who's watched film 146 times 2022-09-11T04:00:00Z

To write a memoir is to build a narrative: Let the record show this is how it happened. Three Stunning New Memoirs of Love and Loss 2019-03-01T05:00:00Z

This is a memoir about writers: a young poet, his middle-aged mentor and, at the story’s pale bright center, a 71-year-old wizard of language. A Road Trip With One of the 20th Century’s Greatest Writers 2020-08-18T04:00:00Z

The duo’s recently released memoir, “Kicking & Dreaming: A Story of Heart, Soul and Rock & Roll,” includes silly memories of aimlessly stalking Paul McCartney across Scotland as well as accounts of drug abuse. Pop & Rock Listings for April 4-10 2014-04-03T22:33:52Z

She also may work on a second memoir about her early childhood. 'Kinky Boots' creators Cyndi Lauper and Harvey Fierstein kick back 2014-11-08T05:00:00Z

Jami Attenberg says exactly that in her new memoir, “I Came All This Way to Meet You”: “I was born a writer.” Jami Attenberg’s Memoir Is a Portrait of the Artist as a Born Writer 2022-01-11T05:00:00Z

The edited translation of Catherine Almedingen's memoirs by her great niece was a real touchstone of my childhood. In translation: nine authors pick their favourite children's fiction 2013-06-28T17:29:01Z

The memoir catches the maladroit, self-absorbed facets of the acutely miserable. A Widow's Story: A Memoir by Joyce Carol Oates ? review 2011-03-19T00:06:04Z

At the Interlochen Writers Retreat in Michigan, participants pick their genre — memoir, personal essay, novel, short story or poetry — and spend four days generating material under the tutelage of established writers. When you’re ready to move from summer reading to summer writing 2017-06-07T04:00:00Z

There were hints of “Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas” but also twists on the countless tell-all memoirs that line bookstore shelves. Perspective | Norm Macdonald was Tolstoy in sweatpants. Even when he texted you in the middle of the night. 2021-09-15T04:00:00Z

In her new memoir, Sarah Hepola sometimes sounds as if she’s lived the dream of hundreds of thousands of readers of those books with pink cocktail glasses and high heels on their covers. The drunkard’s loop: How one writer fought her way back from blackout alcoholism 2015-06-21T04:00:00Z

He stopped by Salon the other day to talk about his new memoir, “Strong in the Broken Places: A Memoir of Addiction and Redemption Through Wellness.” Wellness in the hood: Can juicing and yoga heal trauma in poor communities? 2017-06-04T04:00:00Z

He composed these memoirs in his isolation cell in the summer of 2005, and a six-year legal battle has finally brought them to us. ‘Guantánamo Diary,’ by Mohamedou Ould Slahi 2015-01-20T05:00:00Z

Their concert-style memoir, “Hundred Days,” part of this year’s Under the Radar festival at the Public Theater, may suggest a musical variation on an anecdote-laden wedding announcements in a Sunday newspaper. Review: What if ‘Until Death Do Us Part’ Means a ‘Hundred Days’? 2017-01-05T05:00:00Z

Dana Canedy, who joined Simon & Schuster as publisher last year, called Mr. Pence’s memoir “the definitive book on one of the most consequential presidencies in American history.” ‘There Is a Tension There’: Publishers Draw Fire for Signing Trump Officials 2021-04-27T04:00:00Z

The other great change was the television, which almost becomes another character or a Greek chorus throughout this part of the memoir. A life in books: Janice Galloway 2011-08-05T21:55:05Z

But recording that album, she recalls in the memoir, was lengthy and fraught. From Lucinda Williams, a Memoir as Flinty as Her Songs 2023-04-22T04:00:00Z

But the memoir itself capitalized on anxieties about Trump's 2016 ascendency, and promised its readers the background needed to understand what the "white, working-class Trump voter" was thinking. From "The Crown" to an animated WWII series, here's what's new on Netflix in November 2020-11-01T04:00:00Z

Kurdi’s memoir proves that in an age when images and headlines vanish as fast as they appear, long-form writing in the first person remains a powerful stand against forgetting. Review | After a photo of her nephew’s drowned body went viral, a Syrian woman tells the family’s story 2018-08-20T04:00:00Z

Leith opened up about what it was like updating her memoir for an American audience, in which she details her affair with her first husband and advocacy for assisted suicide. Ageism, affairs and Mexico Week: Getting personal with Prue Leith of "Bake Off" 2023-01-07T05:00:00Z

The memoir, “Little Failure,” is scheduled for release in January 2014. ArtsBeat: Gary Shteyngart to Publish Memoir 2013-04-24T17:42:24Z

Paltrow, in particular, credited the memoir with helping to reduce Moore’s health problems by unburdening her of the psychic baggage she’d been carrying. Demi Moore Lets Her Guard Down 2019-09-12T04:00:00Z

Sepinuck has a book coming out in February - a memoir about her experiences with the group she founded, including excerpts of scripts. Conflict survivors find healing in theatre group performance 2013-02-06T15:26:02Z

Unable to find a publisher for his novel “A Million Little Pieces,” Frey decided to shop the same book around as a memoir. Too real for reality TV — or even memoir: The new novels that dare use fiction to reveal secret truths 2016-02-14T05:00:00Z

West to ask for a wheelchair and a staffer to push it, according to the memoirs of both men. When first ladies meet: An awkward post-election White House tradition 2016-04-06T04:00:00Z

He hasn't time for Mandy's memoir not least because he is ploughing through Martin Amis's The Pregnant Widow at the rate of three pages a night. David and Ed Miliband on sibling rivalry 2010-09-04T23:06:00Z

"He would write these jokey memoirs, and he loved talking about his scrappy childhood in Cleveland, and he would even allude to shoplifting sometimes, but never the reform school." Bob Hope gets little thanks for all the memories 2014-11-29T05:00:00Z

Ms. Brockes, who chronicled this story in a memoir, “She Left Me the Gun,” which was also published last year, said she was grateful her mother shielded her from the truth. This Life: In an Age of Lessening Privacy, Some Family Secrets Persist 2014-01-17T23:41:18Z

She was thinking of writing a memoir but wasn’t sure whether she should. Katharine Graham at 100: Inside the making of one of the greatest Washington memoirs ever 2017-06-15T04:00:00Z

So as he chronicles Didion's family history and youth in Sacramento, he is rehashing her memoir "Where I Was From." The best part of the new Joan Didion bio 'The Last Love Song'? Joan Didion 2015-08-20T04:00:00Z

As to what kinds of fiction, poetry, memoirs, theater and essays might spill forth from this unwanted quarantine, many will feel the need to respond to the urgency and desolation of the moment. Perspective | Writers of the past turned suffering into literary masterpieces. They might help us understand how to meet the challenges of our day. 2020-06-02T04:00:00Z

Ms. Marshall also referred to Langston Hughes as Mr. Hughes during her talks and throughout her memoir. The Ancestral Blessings of Toni Morrison and Paule Marshall 2019-08-17T04:00:00Z

Now 63, Stone has stepped back up to the plate with a candid memoir, “The Beauty of Living Twice.” Review | Sharon Stone comes to terms with childhood trauma and Hollywood toxicity in ‘The Beauty of Living Twice’ 2021-03-27T04:00:00Z

In many ways the memoir is largely about the relationships between parents and children. “It was like an overdose of porn”: Chris Offutt reflects on writing about his family’s big secret, after his father’s death 2016-03-11T05:00:00Z

I hadn’t realised people were so keen to see Will Self get a drubbing until the reviews came out for his memoir – titled with characteristic perversity, Will, as opposed to the more obviously memoir-ish Self. The critical drubbing for Will Self’s book shows there’s a subtle art to memoir | Hadley Freeman 2019-11-16T05:00:00Z

Atria, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, says in a statement that Ferguson's book is a "very personal memoir" about her personal and financial struggles. Sarah Ferguson writes 'very personal' memoir 2011-05-19T17:01:05Z

Her memoir and three novels — produced in the span of less than a decade — feel hewn from these grand Faulknerian verities. Faulkner and Other Ghosts Sing Through Jesmyn Ward’s New Novel 2017-09-05T04:00:00Z

Now a heart-rending new memoir enters this conversation and raises urgent questions of its own. The Stoic Philosopher of the Lockup 2019-04-04T04:00:00Z

True, of course, since the star did recently sign a deal to write a memoir for a hefty fee. Amy Schumer's 'SNL' Promo is Peak Amy Schumer 2015-10-07T04:00:00Z

The immediacy of the first-person voice, notable even in the title, suggests we may be reading a memoir. Claire Vaye Watkins’s Urgent, Sweaty Novel About a Woman Who’s a Mess 2021-10-05T04:00:00Z

In later life he turned to the writing of books, both fiction and memoirs. Bryan Forbes: British writer, actor and film director 2013-05-09T07:27:27Z

He was in Beijing last week, giving talks to Chinese historians in anticipation of his memoir appearing there. May 27 at SIFF: 'The Revolutionary' 2012-05-25T19:40:27Z

"Bicycle Diaries" by David Byrne is the Talking Heads singer's memoir of biking the places his band visits on tour. Bike to the library for Bike to Work Week 2015-05-11T04:00:00Z

One of her final creative acts was publishing her memoir “The Princess Diarist,” which came out last month. Carrie Fisher’s Fans Find Solace in Her Books 2016-12-29T05:00:00Z

He died before he wrote the third part of his memoirs, but I loved the first two, and they were wonderful to read. Phil Collins, pop star and self-deprecating dad, on his new memoir 2016-11-24T05:00:00Z

“I had to look into that darkness,” she says at the opening of her new memoir, “Why Religion?” Review | After her son and husband died, Elaine Pagels wondered why religion survives 2018-11-06T05:00:00Z

The memoir is blowzy, direct and, yes, swaggering — loosely reminiscent of Bourdain’s own writing. Tamar Adler and the rise of the quiet cook 2018-03-02T05:00:00Z

It’s a detailed, albeit brief, memoir and a fascinating digest of her political, cultural and collecting philosophies. Review | Peggy Cooper Cafritz’s collection of African American art rises from the ashes 2018-02-15T05:00:00Z

“In order to achieve any results in Denmark, the national team had to go through a minor cultural revolution,” Piontek wrote in his memoir. The hygge conspiracy | Charlotte Higgins 2016-11-22T05:00:00Z

This “uncommonly powerful” memoir details Woodfox’s young life of crime and his time in various prisons, including four decades in solitary confinement for a crime he did not commit. Pulitzer Prizes: A Guide to the Winning Books and Finalists 2020-05-04T04:00:00Z

In some cases, the filmmakers used an actor to communicate Ebert’s own words from his memoir, or they relied on a computer that spoke for him when he typed his thoughts into it. Bourdain documentary’s use of AI to mimic voice draws questions 2021-07-17T04:00:00Z

"Publishing provocative memoirs only increased my salary and stature. Only good things happened," I said. A spy in the house of my first love 2021-05-01T04:00:00Z

Her 1976 autobiography, "The Lady and Her Tiger," served as both a memoir and a groundbreaking expose of Hollywood's treatment of animals. 'Flipper,' 'Lassie' trainer-turned-activist dies 2013-02-18T23:16:03Z

We believed women even less 13 years ago, when Matlin's memoir was published, than we do now. William Hurt and the silent epidemic of abuse 2022-03-16T04:00:00Z

In between all of this work, Grace is putting the finishing touches on her memoir — and is also on the precipice of recording new Against Me! music. Laura Jane Grace’s rebel music: “I doubt you’re gonna find a successful civil movement or social movement that doesn’t have a soundtrack” 2015-10-02T04:00:00Z

But to tell the story of one of Ms. Walls’s grandmothers, “Half Broke Horses” had to walk an uneasy line between memoir and fiction. Books of The Times: ‘The Silver Star,’ a Novel by Jeannette Walls 2013-05-29T20:54:36Z

A: He wrote so many memoirs but I was lucky enough to be able to pore over the family archives from Treve Williams, his son. Vicki Constantine Croke on special animal and human ties 2014-09-25T04:00:00Z

It began “I am that guy” beneath the headline “My Wife Said You May Want to Marry Me,” the title of Rosenthal’s new memoir. He became one of America’s most famous widowers — thanks to his wife. Now he’s trying to teach us about grief. 2020-04-20T04:00:00Z

There are a few tropes one comes to expect from a ballet dancer’s memoir. Review | James Whiteside isn’t a typical ballet star, and his memoir isn’t a typical ballet story 2021-08-18T04:00:00Z

It’s the latest chapter in an ongoing memoir of his irresistible compulsions. 8 New Books We Recommend This Week 2018-12-27T05:00:00Z

Hence, a thriller, which might be more fun than writing a 957-page memoir. Films! Novels! Springsteen! The Obamas and Clintons seem to be having the time of their lives. 2021-03-05T05:00:00Z

It took 20 years, and almost as many drafts, to complete the memoir. Patti Smith, an accidental rock legend, has finally become the artist she always wanted to be 2019-09-23T04:00:00Z

Despite his renown in opera and symphony circles, Brainerd half-jokingly says he is considering writing a memoir called "The Most Unlikely Candidate." A distinctive voice: Everett's Clayton Brainerd adds to SSO's Beethoven concert 2010-12-30T20:36:03Z

Now, in her debut memoir "Want Me," Clark-Flory widens her scope to look back on the person she was and has become, how she defined her sex life and her sex life defined her. Tracy Clark-Flory: "Our culture is totally ignorant around the realm of sexual fantasy" 2021-02-22T05:00:00Z

During his year as a Nobel laureate, he didn’t write a new memoir or release an album of new songs. Bob Dylan’s Year of Living Laureatishly 2017-10-04T04:00:00Z

“I’m a back-against-the-wall, old-time addict,” says Perry, 53, perched in a Tribeca hotel room, three days after the memoir’s official release. ‘Right now, I am everywhere’: Matthew Perry’s endless loop 2022-11-08T05:00:00Z

The problems speak for themselves — not just from Comey’s memoir but from the continued chaos of the actual TV news reports that provide a constant, thunderous din throughout the miniseries. Review | Showtime’s ‘The Comey Rule’ is like replaying a nightmare while we’re still having it 2020-09-08T04:00:00Z

If Connors changed the game of tennis, then Agassi changed the game of tennis memoirs. ArtsBeat: Book Review Podcast: Annual Summer Reading Issue 2013-05-31T16:19:11Z

According to Rice's memoir, "No Higher Honor," Gaddis encouraged her to take a more diplomatic approach to the country's allies. Cold War historian finishes epic on George Kennan 2012-04-19T17:08:13Z

But Mr Aaronovitch’s memoir is no glib rant against the delusions of sincere party members. Reds under the bed 2016-01-28T05:00:00Z

She looked back on her rocky marriage to Osborne more in regret that his memoirs made no mention of their happy times together. Pamela Lane obituary 2010-11-21T18:54:00Z

Something like “The Moon’s a Balloon,” David Niven’s memoir, he describes other people so well that you feel like you were there when he encountered them, like an onlooker. Elton John’s Bookshelves Are Meticulous. Just Ask Him. 2019-10-17T04:00:00Z

A second memoir, Catching the Wolf of Wall Street, was published in 2009. The Wolf of Wall Street's Jordan Belfort sues film's producers for $300m 2020-01-24T05:00:00Z

It was the one thing that, as a 22-year-old half-stunned by grief, she “was capable of doing well,” she writes in her new memoir, “Ordinary Light.” Tracy K. Smith’s Most Treasured Cooking Tool 2015-04-06T04:00:00Z

Happily, once realism has been pulped like the first print run of a fraudulent memoir, the fun can begin. How Hollywood Gets the Publishing Industry Wrong 2019-01-01T05:00:00Z

But, as in Stevens’s first book, “Bleaker House,” which also mixed fiction with memoir, the former is less fully realized than the latter. The Unjustly Overlooked Victorian Novelist Elizabeth Gaskell 2018-09-05T04:00:00Z

Perhaps fiction and memoir, more than criticism, provide space for female writers to dissect all that is maddening and wonderful about popular music: the spectacle, the chicanery, the beautiful lies it tells us. The World Needs Female Rock Critics 2015-05-26T04:00:00Z

The writer-director Mike White, who has cast Shannon in projects like “The White Lotus,” “Enlightened” and “Year of the Dog,” said that her book had a candor that is rare in show-business memoirs. The Unsinkable Molly Shannon 2022-04-05T04:00:00Z

He is currently finishing a memoir about his friendship with Graham Greene. Review | Donald Antrim’s ‘One Friday in April’ is a vital book about mental illness and recovery 2021-10-21T04:00:00Z

It is a tricky thing to write a memoir that’s also supposed to function as self-help and tell-all and activist’s manifesto, as well as indictment. The Education of Ellen Pao 2017-09-19T04:00:00Z

When she was 11 her family moved to Rainbow's End farm and game reserve, the subject of her memoir, and she grew up surrounded by animals, including eight horses, two warthogs and a pet giraffe. Lauren St John's top 10 animal adventures 2011-07-21T09:20:04Z

She finds Richards’s critically adored memoir a rambling slog. Prime Cuts From Jenny Diski’s Catalog of Intimate, Witty Essays 2021-04-12T04:00:00Z

In her new memoir "A Helluva High Note," the songerwiter says the son of a family friend started molesting her when she was 11. Kara DioGuardi says she was molested, date-raped 2011-04-19T19:58:32Z

"The Dance of Reality" is something of a psychological and emotional memoir, based on the filmmaker's boyhood in the small Chilean coastal town of Tocopilla, but building to something more fantastic and poetic. Alejandro Jodorowsky's renewal continues with 'The Dance of Reality' 2014-05-28T04:00:00Z

Arthur Bryant has written his memoirs — and a jolly good yarn they make, too. Buried by Snow or Stuffed in a Suitcase: The Bodies Add Up in Marilyn Stasio’s Latest Crime Column 2018-11-30T05:00:00Z

“If I had stayed with Clay and failed, we would have lost each other forever,” she recalled in her memoir. Writer Gail Sheehy, author of ‘Passages,’ dies at 83 2020-08-25T04:00:00Z

Several journalists have tried and failed to corroborate some of the tales in the memoir, including one in which Kyle set up as a sniper atop the Superdome after Hurricane Katrina and shot 30 looters. Everything You Need to Know About the Controversies Surrounding This Year's Oscar Movies 2015-02-20T05:00:00Z

In his memoir, “Timebends,” Miller attributed some of the flaws of the play’s first Broadway production, which received mixed reviews and ran for only four months, to his internal conflict. 2010-01-06T08:21:00Z

This is one of the smartest things about Moehringer’s memoir: It deftly captures that moment when the party comes to an end, when it’s just not fun anymore and it’s time to sink or swim. ‘The Tender Bar’: A Tale of Drinking That Ducks Alcoholism 2022-01-07T05:00:00Z

“It takes an entire lifetime,” she contends, “to unravel the mysteries of our own lives,” and in that task we have no better tool than fiction, poetry, drama — or even memoir. Review | In ‘Not a Novel,’ Jenny Erpenbeck continues to evolve 2020-09-08T04:00:00Z

Penguin Random House announced Wednesday that the former first lady’s multimillion-selling memoir will be released in a young readers edition. Young reader’s edition of Michelle Obama’s book out in March 2021-02-03T05:00:00Z

I’m not sure I’ve ever read a memoir quite like this, one that spills its many dark secrets with so little self-pity, so much acuity and such a deliberate lack of authorial certitude. Why Did an Accomplished Writer Fall Silent for Two Decades? 2020-02-25T05:00:00Z

Bestsellers don’t necessarily translate to a blockbuster, especially when they’re bestsellers of the biographical/memoir sort. Box office: 'Interview,' 'Unbroken' and a busy, bizarre weekend 2014-12-29T05:00:00Z

A memoir about brain surgery is among 20 books shortlisted for this year's Cost Book Awards. Brain surgery book up for Costa prize 2014-11-18T05:00:00Z

Only occasionally, when recounting the details of Woodfox’s many appeals and retrials and attempts at retrials, does this memoir perhaps necessarily step into the weeds. ‘Solitary’ Is an Uncommonly Powerful Memoir About Four Decades in Confinement 2019-03-04T05:00:00Z

Coates’s memoir, his second book, was written as a letter to his son about the challenges of being black in America. The 2015 MacArthur ‘genius grants’ honor — and surprise — 24 fellows 2015-09-28T04:00:00Z

Mr. Rumsfeld’s memoir plays a fast and loose game of dodge ball with what are now “known knowns” and “known unknowns” about the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Books of The Times: Rumsfeld?s Defense of Known Decisions 2011-02-03T23:04:15Z

Boozy and beloved, this 1968 “fictional memoir” is one of the better first novels ever written. Super Bowl reads: 9 champion football books, 1 fumble 2014-01-27T14:23:24Z

“You might say I’m a product of Hollywood inbreeding,” Ms. Fisher wrote in her 2008 memoir, “Wishful Drinking.” Carrie Fisher: A Look at Her Life Beyond ‘Star Wars’ 2016-12-27T05:00:00Z

“This is where it gets weird,” Stone writes in a new memoir, “The Beauty of Living Twice,” which Knopf will publish on Tuesday. Sharon Stone Is Telling Her Side of the Story 2021-03-24T04:00:00Z

The publishing industry has been eager to get Ruffin to write one of those tra-la-la star-comedian memoirs about this journey, in her trademark style, but she shooed away the chance to self-aggrandize. Late-night TV sensation Amber Ruffin and her sister co-wrote a book about racism. And, yes, it’s hilarious. 2021-02-05T05:00:00Z

In his memoir “Chronicles: Volume One,” Bob Dylan described what it was like, after he became famous, to have people know where he lived. Books of The Times: Rosanne Cash Writes ?Composed: A Memoir? 2010-08-10T19:00:00Z

“People have asked me whether dyslexia makes you a better architect,” Mr. Rogers wrote in his memoir. Richard Rogers, Architect Behind Landmark Pompidou Center, Dies at 88 2021-12-18T05:00:00Z

It offered, she wrote in her memoir, “such clear, simple answers to the most complex questions that I kept feeling there must be a mistake somewhere.” Heda Kovaly, Czech Who Wrote of Totalitarianism, Is Dead at 91 2010-12-09T05:29:00Z

For a decade now, since Bob Dylan’s “Chronicles, Volume One,” the rock ‘n’ roll memoir has become something of a major literary subgenre. The Slits’ Viv Albertine: “I can be older and still live by those punk maxims ” 2014-12-14T05:00:00Z

There’s a novel about terrorism in India, and a filmmaker’s prison memoir, and a journalist’s account of homelessness and hope by way of the Girl Scouts. 12 New Books We Recommend This Week 2020-06-11T04:00:00Z

This forceful, rolling and many-chambered memoir, set largely on the outer margins of New Orleans, isn’t merely about Hurricane Katrina. Times Critics’ Top Books of 2019 2019-12-05T05:00:00Z

In his memoir Messengers of Day, Powell writes, “The year 1928 was an annus mirabilis of books that made an impact.” A Portrait of the Artist as a Droll Slacker 2014-10-15T04:00:00Z

I also feel that any kind of memoir is just a tome to narcissism. Candice Bergen offers a second memoir, 'A Fine Romance' 2015-04-05T04:00:00Z

The second volume of his memoirs, Vanished Years, is full of death. Rupert Everett: 'Sex is over. I'm not motivated by it any more' 2013-04-21T07:30:01Z

She took a gimmicky memoir of a woman who cooked her way through Julia Child’s The Art of French Cooking and stewed it up with the story of the real Julia. Nora Ephron: Remembering Everything 2012-06-27T08:30:05Z

The origins of her resistance to institutional power, her sympathy for the unsympathetic, Mantel has examined in an earlier memoir, “Giving Up the Ghost.” Hilary Mantel Takes On Royals and Rebels in a Book of Essays 2020-10-08T04:00:00Z

If there is a villain in this memoir, written a few years after its author was ejected from the church, it is not Phelps but this petty patriarch. Banished: Surviving My Years in the Westboro Baptist Church by Lauren Drain – review 2013-04-10T07:01:01Z

Matt Seaton, an editor at The New York Review of Books, is the author of a memoir about cycling, “The Escape Artist.” A Novel Chases Its Narrator on the Tour de France 2018-07-27T04:00:00Z

In “Words Without Music”, the 78-year-old composer’s illuminating and at-times diffident memoir, Glass describes his musical journey, which began at Baltimore’s Peabody Conservatory, where he took flute lessons starting at age 8. ‘Words Without Music’: A look inside Philip Glass’s creative genius 2015-04-15T04:00:00Z

Her excellent memoir, "Hold Still," a careful, detailed literary and visual portrait of the photographer's early influences and experiences, begins with Mann opening what she calls "ancestral boxes" filled with old photographs. Sally Mann's memoir 'Hold Still' as lyrical as her photos 2015-05-14T04:00:00Z

Half memoir, half stump speech, the book often dissolves into vague encomiums to “the flame of freedom” and textbook bullet points on the rule of law. The Varieties of Chinese Repression 2022-02-22T05:00:00Z

Based on the memoir of the same name, the film stars McCarthy as Lee Israel, an alcoholic, slovenly, down on her luck and deeply antisocial author once known for her biographies of notable women. Melissa McCarthy, as you haven't seen her: Why her "Can You Ever Forgive Me?" Oscar nod is a thrill 2019-01-22T05:00:00Z

The depravity of Grisel’s addicted life, described in the memoir chapters of Never Enough, illustrates the vicious cycle of the “A and B process” she explains in the scientific sections of her book. The science of addiction: a personal struggle to kick cocaine gives a neuroscientist unique insights 2019-08-24T04:00:00Z

In her 2008 memoir "Losing It," Bertinelli noted that Franklin, just 31 when the show began, wasn't old enough to be her real mother. Bonnie Franklin, 'One Day At a Time' star, dies 2013-03-01T18:38:09Z

Your new book is a very candid memoir about your divorce and the single life. Jen Kirkman speaks the truth: On casual sexism, comedy, feminism, the real work of relationships, and why your job won’t save you 2016-05-01T04:00:00Z

A powerful memoir such as this benefits greatly from this epistolary structure. Review | Akwaeke Emezi’s memoir is a healing ritual for the displaced 2021-06-19T04:00:00Z

The same could be said for LaVette's new memoir, "A Woman Like Me." 'A Woman Like Me': Bettye LaVette's sad, celebratory memoir 2012-10-15T23:54:04Z

Baker would go on to win two Pulitzer Prizes, one for the column, in 1979, and another four years later for “Growing Up,” his best-selling memoir about his Depression-era boyhood. A Modest Encounter with Russell Baker 2019-01-26T05:00:00Z

"Bright and breezy in tone, this must rank as the most informal memoir ever produced by an ex-prime minister," Anthony Hilton in the Scotsman noted of 's A Journey. Critical eye: book reviews roundup 2010-09-24T23:06:00Z

In my new book, “Extreme Domesticity: A View from the Margins,” I examine ethnographies, journalistic accounts and memoirs that have been written about homeless people and communities. How the homeless create homes 2017-07-08T04:00:00Z

By the time Carl’s memoir, “Becoming a Man,” winds its way to this setting — where “the sun sets pink and purple every evening” — its major theme has emerged: The weight of history is omnipresent. After Living as a Woman for Decades, He Staged His Own Gender Reveal 2020-02-01T05:00:00Z

"Re: my daughter, I already wrote about her in a memoir class. Only one who saw it is the teacher." A spy in the house of my first love 2021-05-01T04:00:00Z

In his compelling memoir, “Here, Right Matters,” Alexander Vindman explains how it came to pass that he became a chief witness in Donald Trump’s first impeachment trial. A Key Player in Trump’s First Impeachment Tells His Insider’s Story 2021-08-03T04:00:00Z

Tyson’s memoir, “Just As I Am,” was published this week. Cicely Tyson, groundbreaking actress, dead at 96 2021-01-28T05:00:00Z

For we can be fed endless information – diaries and memoirs, leaked diplomatic documents – but none will necessarily tell us what went on. Why fact-based stories are destroying the art of fiction 2011-01-23T00:04:25Z

A fusion of memoir and biography, the book details Ms. Meltzer’s private struggles and the ways in which they intersect with those of her subject. A Frank Talk About Fat 2020-04-16T04:00:00Z

Sweet’s book pivots from this point into a memoir of her education as a doctor. A Doctor Argues That Her Profession Needs to Slow Down, Stat 2018-01-26T05:00:00Z

The fabrication, or self-fictionalization, may have been damaging to her publishers; the appropriation of a teen hustler’s—and H.I.V. patient’s—identity may have damaged the credibility of other potential memoir writers. The Reductive Narrative Tactics of “Author: The JT LeRoy Story” 2016-09-13T04:00:00Z

Q: In your memoir, you recall a moment of frustration with a Smithsonian colleague and you write, "I almost went 'New Jersey' on him." Lonnie Bunch, the Smithsonian’s first black leader, on the challenge of making it ‘a place that matters’ 2019-08-29T04:00:00Z

In his new memoir, “Tragedy Plus Time,” the actor and comedian Adam Cayton-Holland writes about his younger sister, Lydia, and her sensitivity when she was young. Tell Us 5 Things About Your Book: Grief and Laughter Mingle in ‘Tragedy Plus Time’ 2018-08-26T04:00:00Z

Like Agee and his collaborator, the photographer Walker Evans, Sharlet finds a powerful alchemy in writing and looking, and his snapshots inspire a series of micro-narratives — a mix of documentary, memoir and meditation. Strangers’ Things: A Journalist Finds Grace in Other People’s Stories 2020-02-11T05:00:00Z

There are plans for a book — not so much a memoir, “but a book about how this little girl stole from the best,” she said. Patty Duke doesn’t do auditions anymore 2014-02-26T22:17:16Z

Saeed Jones’ memoir “How We Fight for Our Lives” also was a nominee announced Tuesday by Kirkus Reviews, the trade publication. Colson Whitehead among Kirkus Prize finalists 2019-09-17T04:00:00Z

“It’s a syndrome,” said Amy Fine Collins, a special correspondent for Vanity Fair, who chronicled her driving lessons with an enigmatic instructor named Attila Gusso in a memoir, “The God of Driving.” For Nondrivers, a Summer Stuck in the Passenger Seat 2014-08-06T04:00:00Z

‘What I Did Last Summer’ A guilty memoir of a play from A.R. Theater Listings for May 29-June 4 2015-05-28T04:00:00Z

The memoir explores what he calls “five pivotal points” in his early life, when “things were about to change — for good or bad,” he told KidsPost by phone from his home in rural New Mexico. Gary Paulsen tells his own survival story in ‘Gone to the Woods’ 2021-01-05T05:00:00Z

Whatever Yeltsin thought of Sobchak, he admired Putin’s loyalty to him, and in his memoirs he credited Putin with orchestrating the escape. Ksenia Sobchak, the Stiletto in Putin’s Side 2012-07-03T21:56:57Z

Mr. Massie, who was quick to admit that as a historian he “stands on the shoulders of others,” based his book mostly on Catherine’s own memoirs and on already published research. Robert K. Massie?s Latest Subject Is Catherine the Great 2011-11-09T22:40:21Z

In that memoir, Wideman struggles with an inchoate choler to reconcile the divergent paths of him as an accomplished author and his younger brother, Robby, sentenced to life in prison for murder. Ta-Nehisi Coates' new book speaks resolutely to black America (but should be read by all) 2015-07-21T04:00:00Z

The memoir was due in just four weeks, but Burford said yes. Just Don’t Call Her a Ghostwriter 2021-01-24T05:00:00Z

In 2006, Mr. Stone also published "Prime Green," a memoir about his friendship with Ken Kesey's Merry Prankster crew and his experience of 1960s San Francisco. ArtsBeat: Robert Stone to Publish First Novel in Decade 2013-01-17T13:00:45Z

Turns out, the industry really only wants memoirs about surviving jail and crack addicted parents from black people. Wayétu Moore on writing the immortal heroine of "She Would Be King": "She grew as I grew" 2019-02-28T05:00:00Z

"We're more likely to get an episodic memoir like Bob Dylan’s 'Chronicles: Volume One,' a nonlinear, incomplete account of select key moments in his life and career," he wrote. Prince is writing a memoir, 'The Beautiful Ones.' Talk about purple prose. 2016-03-21T04:00:00Z

Critics hailed it as a new kind of memoir, one of the first to explore the lives of women in wartime. Verily Anderson obituary 2010-07-29T17:17:00Z

This affectionate memoir, written by a friend of Woodie Guthrie who sailed with the singer on multiple voyages during World War II, details harrowing storms and torpedo attacks. Making “Manhattan Beach” 2017-11-22T05:00:00Z

But it is this memoir’s third current, in which Altan considers what it means to be a writer — especially a fiction author — that stirs the soul. Review | As Turkish writer Ahmet Altan is rearrested, his prison memoir is as urgent as ever 2019-11-14T05:00:00Z

Not so much where I'm going to get a bunch of tattoos and write this really bad memoir called "Bad as I Wanna Be" or go to North Korea. Jason Diamond on accidentally writing his memoir, 'Searching for John Hughes' 2017-04-21T04:00:00Z

If this duality is a necessary contrivance for the writer using the first person, it is very much a precondition of the grief memoir. Too much grief 2011-08-19T21:55:11Z

She published a memoir in 2003 about her time in India. Meditation teacher Nancy Cooke de Herrera dies 2013-03-05T01:16:04Z

In her 1969 memoir “I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings,” Maya Angelou recalls a childhood spent living in the terrifying universe of the rural Jim Crow South. A Racist World, Described by Those Who Knew It 2017-08-22T04:00:00Z

In a memoir, heroism is an uncomfortable space for the author to occupy. Townie: A Memoir by Andre Dubus III ? review 2011-07-29T10:43:00Z

Deprived of children of her own – the account of her abortion in her memoirs makes gruesome reading – she poured an almost maternal love into her garden, carved out of the Ischian rock face. William Walton obituary 2010-03-24T18:21:00Z

Kapur weaves together memoir, history and ethnography to tell a story of the desire for utopia and the cruelties committed in its name. Revisiting a Utopian City With Fondness and Fury 2021-07-20T04:00:00Z

It also may be that Ms. Smith had no interest in hewing to the form of a traditional memoir because she’d already done that, to startling effect, with “Just Kids.” Patti Smith, Survivor 2015-10-03T04:00:00Z

Her book then, might be read less as memoir than as manifesto — a voice raised in hope against gender violence. Review | Rebecca Solnit, who inspired the term ‘mansplaining,’ explains herself (sort of) 2020-05-05T04:00:00Z

In this quietly wrenching memoir, Hsu recalls starting out at Berkeley in the mid-1990s as a watchful music snob, fastidiously curating his tastes and mercilessly judging the tastes of others. The 10 Best Books of 2022 2022-11-29T05:00:00Z

I think it is true that writing a memoir is cathartic. Mary Karr on the “loser, outsider weirdos” of memoir and skipping the David Foster Wallace movie: “The whole St. David thing … it’s a little hard to take” 2015-09-27T04:00:00Z

As in most rock star memoirs, the fame years are the best years. Review | In recent memoirs, musicians reveal glamorous tantrums, plenty of drug use and the double-edged sword of fame 2019-11-13T05:00:00Z

Not to mention a memoir from a writer: Elizabeth Tallent’s “Scratched.” Letters to the Editor 2020-03-27T04:00:00Z

I also have a memoir coming out, except mine is about my relatives during the second world war. The critical drubbing for Will Self’s book shows there’s a subtle art to memoir | Hadley Freeman 2019-11-16T05:00:00Z

Scruton provides a rather moving and perhaps unintentionally revealing memoir of his youthful struggle towards Anglicanism. Our Church by Roger Scruton – review 2013-06-19T11:29:56Z

He spent a good deal of his childhood with his grandmother, possibly due, as he theorized in his 1999 memoir "To Hell and Back," to the drinking of his father. Meat Loaf taught me it's OK to have big dreams 2022-01-22T05:00:00Z

Once Harry digs into Blondie’s heyday, the book suffers in ways other rock memoirs often do — rehashing the next album, the next tour and so on. Review | In her memoir, Debbie Harry gives an unvarnished look at her life in the punk scene 2019-09-26T04:00:00Z

Jaquira Diaz’s “Ordinary Girls,” a memoir of growing up in Miami and Puerto Rico, drops this fall. Florida Women Are No Joke. I Should Know. 2019-10-11T04:00:00Z

I was surprised to see Fitzgerald pop up in the middle of a memoir by a silent film actress, and delighted to see a playfulness that was lacking in his later life. The guilty pleasure of reading Hollywood memoirs 2017-06-29T04:00:00Z

I don't have a lot of respect for memoir. James Frey's infuriating return to "Oprah" 2011-05-16T22:30:00Z

In her memoir, Fowler, who’s remained mostly quiet since then, opens up about the decision to share her story and the ramifications of going public. Perspective | What to read in 2020 based on the books you loved in 2019 2019-12-20T05:00:00Z

When, in 1999, with Lara’s encouragement, Helen told her family’s story in the memoir “After Long Silence,” Maria refused to speak to her. Their Parents Were Holocaust Survivors. That Wasn’t Their Only Secret. 2020-02-11T05:00:00Z

Did you ever consider writing a factual memoir of Jim’s life? Jim Carrey, Unmasked 2020-06-29T04:00:00Z

Unlike memoir or fiction stenciled from experience from an American point of view, Ackerman explores the war with alterity by dressing himself as “the other.” An unusual first novel by a veteran of the U.S. Marines 2015-02-12T05:00:00Z

The memoir continues in this vein of purring complacency, the sweetness of a life tasted twice, first in the living, then in the telling. In Letters to the World, a New Wave of Memoirs Draws on the Intimate 2019-10-16T04:00:00Z

According to Mr. Blake, Ms. Smyth initially said that the singer did not remember the memoir, and had requested a copy. London Publisher Says He Has Mick Jagger’s Memoir — but Don’t Expect to Read It 2017-02-16T05:00:00Z

But her new memoir, “Sex Object,” focuses on a role that Valenti — and countless women like her — never asked for, being an object for men to project all their issues and feelings of entitlement onto. “It was meant to be a reminder to stay in my place”: Jessica Valenti chronicles lessons learned living in a sexist world 2016-06-07T04:00:00Z

Fisher’s writing about his stream of patients is what gives this memoir its immediacy, its pulse. An E.R. Memoir Conveys Hectic Work, Empathy and Outrage 2022-03-21T04:00:00Z

Mark Oppenheimer, who writes the Beliefs column for The New York Times, is the author of the memoir “Wisenheimer: A Childhood Subject to Debate.” Books of The Times: Jeff Bridges and Bernie Glassman’s ‘Dude and the Zen Master’ 2013-01-06T23:01:49Z

In former first lady Michelle Obama's memoir "Becoming," she discloses that her two daughters were born through IVF, after she suffered a miscarriage. Why Gabrielle Union and Michelle Obama opening up about miscarriage and infertility matters 2018-12-12T05:00:00Z

His mission was to chronicle, in fiction and memoir, the sordid world in which he had lived. ‘Street Poison’ review: Why rappers owe a debt to writer Iceberg Slim 2015-07-28T04:00:00Z

A piece on a Christian rock festival – which seems to augur a straightforward piece of college-educated-liberal culture tourism – sidesteps touchingly into a memoir of Sullivan's own teenage involvement with evangelical Christianity. Pulphead: Dispatches from the Other Side of America by John Jeremiah Sullivan - review 2012-07-26T07:00:06Z

But the moments when a charismatic operator like this one finds peace and grace are usually the most pat and platitudinous parts of any memoir or journal. Books of The Times: ?Journals of Spalding Gray,? Edited by Nell Casey - Review 2011-10-17T21:27:58Z

“Stand Up Straight and Sing!,” the memoir by the soprano Jessye Norman that came out on Tuesday, takes readers from her close-knit girlhood community in Augusta, Ga., to Carnegie Hall and beyond. ArtsBeat: Jessye Norman Talks About ‘Stand Up Straight and Sing!’ 2014-05-06T16:27:37Z

Last year Zest Books and Houghton Mifflin published “Tomboy,” a graphic memoir for young adults by Liz Prince, 33, about her experience growing up preferring rough-and-tumble games and the jeans and sweatshirts that enable them. Where Have All the Tomboys Gone? 2015-10-13T04:00:00Z

Next, read “Ordinary Girls,” Jaquira Díaz’s astonishing memoir about her tumultuous upbringing. Read Your Way Through Miami 2023-03-15T04:00:00Z

Cancer was also at the center of a nonfiction bestseller Young edited: Rollin’s “First, You Cry,” the NBC television correspondent’s memoir about being treated for breast cancer. Longtime publishing editor Genevieve Young dead at 89 2021-02-18T05:00:00Z

It’s a graphic memoir that interweaves Pekar’s gradual disaffection with the modern state of Israel with a comprehensive visual history from Biblical times to the present. Not the Harvey Pekar graphic novel you’d expect 2012-07-13T13:39:00Z

In February 2018, “Girl, Wash Your Face,” a blend of memoir and self-help, was published by Thomas Nelson, a Christian imprint of HarperCollins. Girl, Wash Your Timeline 2021-04-29T04:00:00Z

It’s unusual to write a really good memoir as it happens. Motherlode Blog: ‘Mother Daughter Me’: The Best Memoir I’ve Read This Year 2013-07-18T18:11:43Z

The celebrity memoir is very often a noisy thing: from shocking tales of hardscrabble childhoods to juicy, behind-the-scenes dirt on the rich and famous, it’s not a genre that is known for its subtlety. Our Favorite Nonfiction Books of 2019 2019-12-18T05:00:00Z

The memoir will primarily be distributed in Hong Kong, with a limited number of copies also available in the United States and Europe, but not widely in mainland China. Books: Memoir (or Is It?) of Sex and Opium 2011-03-30T12:00:05Z

Q: I want to ask you about your memoir, which came out last March, right after everything was shutting down. Q&A with Cameron Esposito: Putting out a memoir during a pandemic and facing the darkness onstage 2021-02-25T05:00:00Z

Ms. Conway’s book will be published by Threshold, a Simon & Schuster imprint focused on conservative titles, though a person familiar with it said it would be more of a memoir than a standard political book. ‘There Is a Tension There’: Publishers Draw Fire for Signing Trump Officials 2021-04-27T04:00:00Z

Astronaut Scott Kelly, whose memoir is “Endurance,” came to Pasadena to tell a sold-out crowd — and science guy Bill Nye — about his year in space. Books: The National Book Award winners, Alexander Chee on his mentor Kit Reed and more 2017-11-18T05:00:00Z

Ms. Sun is currently working on a memoir. The Classical Concert That Changed Their Lives 2020-12-18T05:00:00Z

In her memoir, in some of the sections that blame others for bad relationships, Ruth Ann is the one who inadvertently comes across as difficult. A Senate candidate. A murder plot. An undercover cop. A giant fiasco. 2016-05-24T04:00:00Z

In interviews, he played up his frisky personal life — further amplified in his memoir, “Saeed, An Actor’s Journey” — and could be dismissive of his work in what he called “silly little Bollywood films.” Saeed Jaffrey, Indian-born actor in British and Bollywood fare, dies at 86 2015-11-16T05:00:00Z

One reason is the Autobiography of Malcolm X, a memoir ghosted by Alex Haley, who later wrote the Afro-American blockbuster Roots. Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention by Manning Marable ? review 2011-04-10T05:00:01Z

She found that Mr. Eribon’s memoir expanded thoughtfully on similar questions. Review: ‘Returning to Reims’ and Those European Working-Class Blues 2018-02-11T05:00:00Z

One person's recollection is never the same as another's and any memoir is inevitably, fatally subjective. This Party's Got to Stop by Rupert Thomson | Book review 2010-03-28T00:06:00Z

In her memoir, we learn there was a trapdoor into which she could surreptitiously urinate. Review: Marina Abramovic’s ‘Walk Through Walls,’ a Memoir of Masochism and Pretension 2016-11-01T04:00:00Z

The memoir has been the subject of intense speculation in the publishing world and among royal watchers. Prince Harry’s Memoir Is Due in January. How Explosive Will It Be? 2022-10-26T04:00:00Z

The memoir, “In Gratitude,” was published this month in Britain by Bloomsbury and will be released in the United States in May. Jenny Diski, Author Who Wrote of Madness and Isolation, Dies at 68 2016-04-28T04:00:00Z

Castro’s memoir, “An Unlikely Journey: Waking Up From My American Dream,” traces this arc, a part of which he first shared in a 2012 Democratic National Convention speech that put him on the public’s radar. Julián Castro’s American Story 2018-12-19T05:00:00Z

This is a memoir of a fashion designer in the 1930s and Hawes’s critique of the fashion industry is blunt, sharp and wittily observed. Ellie Kemper: By the Book 2018-11-29T05:00:00Z

A publicist said the memoir was acquired earlier and was not part of a two-book deal. ArtsBeat: Norton To Publish Philip Roth Biography 2012-09-28T19:19:37Z

“My favorite singer in the place was Karen Dalton,” Dylan famously wrote in his memoir “Chronicles: Volume One.” The many mysteries of folk singer Karen Dalton, revealed 2021-09-30T04:00:00Z

At the same time, he often writes as if holding something in reserve, perhaps stockpiling memories and experiences to be examined in future essays, poems and memoirs. Review | How a young writer emerged from a troubled past to a Pulitzer 2018-04-15T04:00:00Z

As the memoir progresses, though, its tone darkens considerably. Michael Mewshaw’s ‘Sympathy for the Devil: Four Decades of Friendship with Gore Vidal’ 2015-01-14T05:00:00Z

“How We Fight for Our Lives” is a new memoir from Saeed Jones, an award-winning poet and a former BuzzFeed editor, who grew up black, gay, and Southern in the nineties and early two-thousands. Saeed Jones’s Striking Memoir About Race, Sex, and Self-Invention 2019-10-10T04:00:00Z

A Strong Thread in a Torn Union When Elizabeth Keckley, a former slave turned professional dressmaker and confidante of Mary Todd Lincoln, published her memoir, “Behind the Scenes,” in 1868, the response was vitriolic. It’s Elizabeth Keckley’s Year in Civil War History 2013-01-09T23:54:36Z

Combining memoir, self-help, tell-all and manifesto, Pao recalls the disillusionment that led her to sue a Silicon Valley venture capital firm for gender discrimination. 11 New Books We Recommend This Week 2017-09-28T04:00:00Z

Kelly Corrigan is the author of the memoirs “Glitter and Glue,” “Lift” and “The Middle Place.” Kelly Corrigan’s hymn to summer, summer reading — and her mom 2015-07-02T04:00:00Z

Michael Ian Black is an actor and the author, most recently, of the children’s book “I’m Sad,” and the memoir “Navel Gazing: True Tales of Bodies, Mostly Mine.” Cruises Are So Uncool They Are Cool 2018-07-03T04:00:00Z

Although the loquacious politician loves to talk about his parents and his wife and kids in speeches and memoirs, he declined to be interviewed for this story. Joe Biden still wants to be president. Can his family endure one last campaign? 2017-07-28T04:00:00Z

"Fresh Off the Boat," a bright new sitcom premiering Wednesday on ABC, is based on a memoir of the same name by Eddie Huang, the Taiwanese American chef and media personality. ABC sitcom 'Fresh Off the Boat' is a satire that works 2015-02-04T05:00:00Z

How many memoirs, like Sebold's, end with an uplifting resolution that, in retrospect, feels forced upon the story? Alice Sebold's "Lucky" and the problem with memoirs with happy endings 2021-12-05T05:00:00Z

In his memoir, he wrote of his "impotent discontent" at the state of the teaching of English in Cambridge. Sir Frank Kermode obituary 2010-08-18T13:20:00Z

In this illustrated memoir, Ha details her experience as a reluctant immigrant to the United States. Perspective | Five new books for your teenager’s summer reading pile 2020-05-26T04:00:00Z

Mr. Yousef, whose memoir, “Son of Hamas,” inspired the film, wasn’t a Palestinian fighter infused with jihadist fervor. ‘The Green Prince,’ About a Hamas Son Recruited by Israel 2014-09-11T04:00:00Z

Perhaps as a result of this trance, those sections in the memoir that expand beyond the personal into discussions of colonialism and Colombian history can feel thin. Descended From Shamans and Ghost Whisperers 2022-07-06T04:00:00Z

In her memoir "The Road of Lost Innocence," Somaly Mam wrote of being sold into sex slavery, then eventually making her way to freedom and working to make sure other girls escaped that fate. Sex slavery activist Somaly Mam quits foundation after book probe 2014-05-30T04:00:00Z

“This land of persecution and reprisals,” as Robert Louis Stevenson called it in his classic memoir Travels with a Donkey in the Cévennes, thinking perhaps of the vicious aftermath of the Jacobin rebellion. The sweet air of the Cévennes: a British writer on life in the rural heart of France 2020-03-10T04:00:00Z

Gabby Douglas’s announcement of an upcoming memoir made us ponder what other public figures wasted no time in inking their accomplishments. 10 Lightning-Speed Celebrity Memoirs: How Soon Is Too Soon? 2012-09-10T12:00:28Z

Beah’s memoir offers a rare chance to see war from the eyes of a child soldier, brainwashed and kept obedient with drugs and guns. 25 Great Books by Refugees in America 2017-01-30T05:00:00Z

Some — the poems of Phillis Wheatley, the memoir of Frederick Douglass — stand literature’s test of time. A History of Race and Racism in America, in 24 Chapters 2017-02-22T05:00:00Z

It’s not that poets lack the native ability to write essays or reviews or memoirs — they’re generally as well equipped to do so as fiction writers, many of whom aren’t shy in entering unfamiliar arenas. A Poet Traces Her Personal Obsessions, in Prose 2020-04-14T04:00:00Z

Her first standup special was released the same year, as was her memoir, “The Last Black Unicorn.” What’s on TV Tuesday: ‘Tiffany Haddish: Black Mitzvah’ and ‘Something Wild’ 2019-12-03T05:00:00Z

To what extent, Davy, were you familiar with other movies or memoirs on Korean adoption? For a Film About Korean Adoptees, a Group Effort 2023-02-19T05:00:00Z

They are trying to finish their memoirs, Rockets and Dictators, by the end of the year. Naked in an island idyll: eccentric couple recall a life of rockets and dictators 2015-06-13T04:00:00Z

In her memoir “Slow Days, Fast Company,” Eve Babitz remarks that “early in life I discovered that the way to approach anything was to be introduced by the right person.” A Father and Son Sail Through Homer’s ‘Odyssey’ Together 2017-09-18T04:00:00Z

“I read a lot about memoir writing when I was writing this book,” she tells the Guardian. So now you're middle-aged? Pamela Druckerman can walk you through it 2018-05-30T04:00:00Z

Cissy Houston's interview with People, and excerpts from her memoir, can be found in the issue which reaches newsstands on January 25. Whitney Houston's mother wonders if she could have saved singer 2013-01-23T21:45:49Z

Her approach to the material is theoretical, devious, a mix of manifesto and memoir. Can Surrogacy Remake the World? 2019-12-11T05:00:00Z

What makes this distinctly voiced, plot-light rant work as a narrative is that it exists in contrast to so many self-indulgent and "brave" grief memoirs. Novels focus on gritty realism, anger, loss, family dysfunction 2015-04-03T04:00:00Z

“It is, instead, a memoir of staying connected while moving apart, of traveling simultaneously under and within the radar, of stretching without snapping.” Review: ‘Here and There,’ a Renunciation of a Sect, Tinged With Love 2015-12-06T05:00:00Z

Reading Stan’s memoir, looping and wandering as his thoughts were as he lay contending with his illness, seemed to connect me, briefly but powerfully, to all that vanished web of connections. The True Meaning of Nostalgia 2017-03-25T04:00:00Z

Felicity Jones, who plays Hawking's wife Jane - and whose memoir is the basis of the film - said it "would be so lovely" to be recognised during the forthcoming awards' season. Redmayne admits fear of Hawking role 2014-09-08T04:00:00Z

Kosminsky's team spoke to around 80; he found the men's stories to be both gripping and moving, so he carried on, wading next through letters, diaries, memoirs and history books. Peter Kosminsky: Britain's humiliation in Palestine 2011-01-23T00:03:05Z

I've finished a new edition of Livingstone, I can't rule out writing about Africa again, but before that I hope to write another volume of autobiography to sit alongside my memoir Swimming with my Father. Paperback Q&A: Tim Jeal on Explorers of the Nile 2012-07-10T13:33:42Z

“It was the moment,” he wrote in his memoir, “when I felt most aroused to the potential of becoming an artist who might forge a language, Whitman-like, out of the compost of American life.” John Adams, an American Master at 75 2022-08-31T04:00:00Z

Karr herself asked her mom and sister to respond to her memoir “The Liar’s Club” well before publication, and she maintains 11 rules for “dealing with beloveds.” Great Draft, Dad. I Have Some Notes. 2019-10-12T04:00:00Z

On the heels of two transcendent years in her career, the home state folk-rock star is trading song lyrics for the literary world, as Carlile on Thursday announced a forthcoming memoir. Brandi Carlile announces new memoir ‘Broken Horses’ 2020-11-19T05:00:00Z

And yet, no person can act as the flawless representative for an entire group of people — and certainly not while writing a memoir worth reading. “I’m in love with being on display”: Adult film star Asa Akira on her insatiable love of porn 2014-05-04T00:00:00Z

The memoir is not just about Mr. Thurm’s dealings in Hollywood but his upbringing: growing up on a kosher milk farm in East New York. Reflections on Star Quality From a Golden Age of ‘Junk TV’ 2023-02-02T05:00:00Z

Joseph Heller’s own 1998 memoir, “Now and Then,” is one of the main sources for at least the first 100 pages of “Just One Catch.” Books of The Times: The Catching of Two Joseph Hellers 2011-07-27T22:06:58Z

The seven-time winner of the World Surf League Big Wave Award has a deal with Abrams Children’s Books for two picture stories and a young adult memoir. Surfer Maya Gabeira has book deal with children’s publisher 2022-02-17T05:00:00Z

The prospect of further Dylan memoirs will create great anticipation even though publication date remains tantalisingly unconfirmed. Bob Dylan signs six-book deal 2011-01-19T15:21:59Z

In his memoir, Poitier wrote that he didn’t have a responsibility to be “angry and defiant,” even if he often felt those emotions. Sidney Poitier changed movies, and changed lives 2022-01-07T05:00:00Z

But he called himself one in the subtitle of his memoir — “My Life as an Impresario” — and described himself as such when he produced an attraction and took financial responsibility for it. Paul Szilard, Dance Impresario, Dies at 100 2013-08-05T02:25:52Z

Because it's a memoir, people react in terms of their own experiences. T Magazine: Pulp Friction: An Interview With Joyce Carol Oates 2012-08-15T19:00:32Z

ABC’s “Fresh Off the Boat,” based on his memoir of growing up Taiwanese-American in Orlando, Fla., was a critical and commercial success. Review: ‘Huang’s World’ Mixes Food, Travel and Attitude 2016-04-27T04:00:00Z

And at the last minute, they pulled it, in order to publish Sarah Bernhardt's brief memoir, told from the point of view of a cane-seated chair, of her three-hour balloon attempt. Julian Barnes 2013-03-30T07:00:25Z

She begins her 2019 memoir not in the kitchen but on the floor of her hallway, where she is trying to summon the will to get up. Comfort me with food memoirs, the only books I want to read right now 2020-05-10T04:00:00Z

He is currently working on a second memoir, "Hollywood, Tennessee." Reba McEntire among Country Hall of Fame inductees 2011-03-01T18:06:40Z

But memoirs like Lacy Crawford’s “Notes on a Silencing” remind us how little progress has been made. Review | Lacy Crawford’s ‘Notes on a Silencing’ is a haunting exploration of the systematic ways assault victims are ignored 2020-07-05T04:00:00Z

Reynolds is doing some public speaking — she did a two-day workshop at Creative LIVE.com in November — and is working on a book that is both a how-to and a memoir. Preparing for the worst, step by step 2013-12-24T21:31:29Z

Rapp’s memoir tells the story of mothering a child with Tay-Sachs disease. Waiting to love my child 2013-05-07T23:45:00Z

This “is the story of a government poisoning its own citizens, and then lying about it,” Mona Hanna-Attisha writes in her gripping memoir about the crisis, “What the Eyes Don’t See.” Two Views of Flint’s Water Troubles: One a Close-Up and One With a Wide-Angle Lens 2018-07-31T04:00:00Z

Janet Mock chronicled her transition from male to female in the memoir “Redefining Realness,” which landed last spring on the New York Times best-seller list. For Some in Transgender Community, It’s Never Too Late to Make a Change 2015-03-06T05:00:00Z

In this elegiac memoir written in the wake of her father’s death, Smyth turns to Woolf’s masterpiece “To the Lighthouse” for comfort and insight. 10 New Books We Recommend This Week 2019-02-21T05:00:00Z

The announcement kicks off a busy year for the actor: his memoir and a new photography book are due later in 2015. 'Cabaret' Star Joel Grey Comes Out Publicly: 'I Don't Like Labels' 2015-01-28T05:00:00Z

Cary Grant is among the celebrities discussed in the ribald new memoir “Full Service.” Scotty Bowers and His Sexual Tell-All of Old Hollywood 2012-01-27T22:08:45Z

Whatever the uncertainties about the accuracy of recent North Korean memoirs, it’s absolutely clear that some stories about North Korea are fabricated — because they’re fiction. What to Read if You Want to Know More About North Korea 2018-01-01T05:00:00Z

Several segments of the show are given over to Will’s reading segments of his memoir to family members and friends. Hollywood’s First Family of Putting It Out There 2022-02-10T05:00:00Z

It has been no secret that Michele — who opened each chapter of her 2014 memoir, “Brunette Ambition,” with a Streisand quote — had interest in the role. Lea Michele to Star in ‘Funny Girl’ After Beanie Feldstein’s Departure 2022-07-11T04:00:00Z

It’s reprinted on the cover of “Country Girl,” Ms. O’Brien’s new memoir. Books of The Times: Edna O’Brien’s Memoir, ‘Country Girl’ 2013-04-29T19:31:34Z

The story of that strange and anxiety-producing year is one of the best in Short’s new memoir, “I Must Say: My Life as a Humble Comedy Legend” – and Salon excerpted from it earlier this month. Martin Short: I watched Larry David’s profane “Saturday Night Live” exit 2014-11-15T05:00:00Z

Mussolini’s is a fascist dictator’s memoir written as you would expect a fascist dictator to write it. Does “Mein Kampf” Remain a Dangerous Book? 2016-01-12T05:00:00Z

Clinton is the ex-president whose other works include the memoir “My Life.” In Bill Clinton and James Patterson’s Second Novel, an Ex-President Goes Rogue 2021-06-08T04:00:00Z

In her first memoir, Janet Mock describes coming of age and transitioning as a young transgender girl. 20 Years of L.G.B.T.Q. Lit: A Timeline 2017-06-23T04:00:00Z

In her memoirs, she calls him "my indispensable sherpa". Margaret Thatcher by Charles Moore; Not for Turning by Robin Harris – review 2013-04-24T12:57:02Z

“Men who make the rules tend to dismiss memoir, because they’re just not as good at it as women are,” Wurtzel told me. Joyce Maynard’s Second Chances 2019-02-08T05:00:00Z

In this charming memoir, le Carré writes about how his father, a con man, prepared the future author to become first a spy, then a novelist. 9 New Books We Recommend This Week 2016-09-23T04:00:00Z

I have been amazed to find myself doing so much critical and cultural writing, a lot of it being a weird mix of criticism and memoir, or covert memoir pieces pretending to be critical pieces. Are literary classics obsolete? 2012-05-31T00:00:00Z

In large part, the memoir chronicles the cascading generational effects of alcoholism. Carolyn See, memoirist, novelist and book reviewer for The Post, dies at 82 2016-07-15T04:00:00Z

“Like many of the best memoirs of ideas, Boot’s story is one of conversion and de-conversion — of faith gained and then lost,” Damon Linker writes in his review. 12 New Books We Recommend This Week 2018-11-08T05:00:00Z

There have also been memoirs by Uyghur authors and intellectuals in exile. A Poet Captures the Terror of Life in an Authoritarian State 2023-08-01T04:00:00Z

She recently completed a memoir about being a single parent. Modern Love: When Dating Takes More Than the Click of a Mouse 2012-10-04T22:29:41Z

What’s more, True has roughed out several hundred pages of a potential memoir, a draft of which she shared with The Washington Post. One of the world’s most respected curators vanished from the art world. Now she wants to tell her story. 2015-08-19T04:00:00Z

He took me over to a big shelf of books, and said: “Everything here is either a memoir or retrospective collection of commemorative pieces. These are all inside jobs.” Inside Creative Writing’s Premier Talent Factory 2019-03-24T04:00:00Z

This haunting, genre-defying memoir is about the physical and philosophical fallout of the year that followed. 11 New Books We Recommend This Week 2021-12-02T05:00:00Z

What is your favorite memoir by a musician? Elton John’s Bookshelves Are Meticulous. Just Ask Him. 2019-10-17T04:00:00Z

“It is not my intention to recount here the plot of the fourth volume,” she writes in the memoir. ArtsBeat: Partner of Stieg Larsson Wants to Complete Fourth 'Millennium' Novel 2011-01-14T19:04:53Z

But he is best known for two memoirs, “Emblems of Conduct,” about his days in Atlanta, and “Lost Friendships,” about his relationships with Williams and Capote. A Writer?s Estate to Yield $150,000 Literary Prizes 2011-06-17T22:55:21Z

In his memoir Radical Son, David Horowitz, a former Bay Area white radical turned rightwing activist, recalled his involvement with the Panthers and Brown’s leadership. Black power’s coolest radicals (but also a gang of ruthless killers) 2015-10-18T04:00:00Z

Some, such as Anthony Bourdain's memoir "Kitchen Confidential," even romanticize these behaviors. How did abuse get baked into the restaurant industry? 2023-05-11T04:00:00Z

I thought if I am going to write another memoir, I think the only antidote to the narcissism of it is that you are as honest as you are capable of being. Candice Bergen offers a second memoir, 'A Fine Romance' 2015-04-05T04:00:00Z

One of the many titles for my unwritten memoir is, “Too Far to Walk.” Roz Chast and Patricia Marx Mine the Mother Lode 2019-03-15T04:00:00Z

In her second memoir, 2015’s “M Train,” Smith chronicled her addiction to coffee and to the many TV detective shows she watches. Patti Smith Plumbs Her Dreams in ‘Year of the Monkey’ 2019-09-24T04:00:00Z

No question, Ms. Haart’s journey was filled with trepidation, as will likely be detailed in her forthcoming memoir, “Brazen: My Unorthodox Journey From Long Sleeves to Lingerie.” In ‘My Unorthodox Life,’ Fashion Is a Flash Point 2021-08-12T04:00:00Z

What keeps the reader going is the evocative writing style of Santiago, author of the memoir "When I Was Puerto Rican." 'Conquistadora': an ambitious woman's conquests in 19th-century Puerto Rico 2011-07-27T19:36:05Z

The poet Jackie Kay won the Scottish book of the year award for her memoir Red Dust Road, in which she traces her natural father. Edinburgh international book festival diary 2011-08-28T17:52:44Z

Sixty years later, with the title of his new memoir, Daltrey offers a tip of the hat. Who’s Next? Roger Daltrey 2018-11-30T05:00:00Z

“The Lonely City” is part memoir, part meditation on personal isolation, part critical study of a handful of visual artists. Art illuminates loneliness: “The experience of loneliness, particularly urban loneliness, is intensely visual” 2016-03-17T04:00:00Z

Maren was spared the most draconian growth treatments of the day, but his memoir, “Short and Sweet,” published in 2006, recounts a childhood of tragic isolation. “The Wizard of Oz,” the Last Munchkin, and the Little People Left Behind 2018-07-11T04:00:00Z

But it wasn’t until the publisher contacted him in 2012 that he thought about writing a memoir. David Hallberg’s Tell All (About His Own Psyche) 2017-11-07T05:00:00Z

The result is a memoir enlarged and illuminated by Woolf’s insights, but mediated by Smyth’s trenchant observations and wit. Review | A woman tries to understand her late father — with the help of Virginia Woolf 2019-02-01T05:00:00Z

The film is based on parallel father-and-son memoirs of this same experience. Royals, rogues and Rudolf Nureyev: the best films of 2019 2019-01-02T05:00:00Z

While he was living his life, history was also happening, and the inclusion of that history could enlarge his memoir. Questioning Gender Amid a Chaotic East Village Childhood 2016-10-10T04:00:00Z

They feature only briefly and at the very start of this memoir, though there is a terrific photo of Thompson’s posse in an Aspen bar that includes my wife’s father. Review: In ‘Stories I Tell Myself,’ Life as Hunter S. Thompson’s Son 2015-12-31T05:00:00Z

Mr. McClatchy blends in shreds of anecdote and memoir, such as an account of his first meeting with the poet James Merrill, or recalling the letters he sent to Vladimir Nabokov while in high school. Review: J. D. McClatchy’s Secret Autobiography, in Quotations 2016-04-13T04:00:00Z

It isn’t anything he has tried to hide, and, in fact, he mentioned it briefly in his 2015 memoir, “Another Little Piece of My Heart.” Meet the critic who panned ‘Sgt. Pepper’ then discovered his speaker was busted. He’s still not sorry. 2017-05-11T04:00:00Z

His memoir about raising a gay child, “Oddly Normal,” will be published next month by Gotham Books. Cultural Studies: Helping a Gay Child to Come Out 2012-10-05T20:07:11Z

Fashion fans might come to this memoir expecting a primer on Day’s journey from street style to couture, and there is certainly a bit of that. 10 New Books We Recommend This Week 2019-08-22T04:00:00Z

Last year's "12 Years a Slave," based on freeman Solomon Northup's antebellum memoir of his kidnapping and years spent on Southern plantations, used a life to make the abstraction of slavery concrete. Biopics find new life at the Oscars and beyond 2015-01-24T05:00:00Z

The picks span genre and form — including a darkly enchanting collection of short stories, a delightful novel featuring a dysfunctional bride-to-be and a singing memoir chronicling both grief and, yes, taming a hawk. These Are The Best Books of 2015 So Far 2015-07-30T04:00:00Z

Writing a memoir too is a challenge for whites in South Africa. 'Lost and Found in Johannesburg' maps the growth of a writer and nation 2014-08-01T04:00:00Z

Numerous publishers are said to have shied away from his memoir when an Allen representative shopped it last year. Woody Allen memoir published in US after protest stops first attempt 2020-03-23T04:00:00Z

Irish pop singer Sinéad O'Connor is writing a memoir for Blue Rider Press, the publisher announced Tuesday. Sinead O'Connor promises her upcoming memoir will dish 'sexual dirt' 2014-10-08T04:00:00Z

Aidy Bryant of “Saturday Night Live” stars in this new series, based on Lindy West’s memoir, “Shrill: Notes From a Loud Woman.” What’s on TV Sunday: ‘Billions’ and ‘Shrill’ 2019-03-17T04:00:00Z

The new book, “The Philosophy of Modern Song,” is his first release of new material since the acclaimed memoir “Chronicles, Volume One” was published in 2004. Bob Dylan book on ‘Modern Song’ to come out in November 2022-03-08T05:00:00Z

But it has given her a poem, a memoir and a play, “He Brought Her Heart Back in a Box,” which begins performances at Theater for a New Audience on Jan. 18. Adrienne Kennedy, Playwright: Still Quiet, Still Bold, Still Furious 2018-01-10T05:00:00Z

The Colombian singer announced Thursday that his first memoir will be released April 2 in English and Spanish. Colombian superstar Juanes writes 1st book 2013-01-24T19:40:09Z

“Graphic novel” sounds more highbrow, but it’s not always correct, given that many of these books now are memoirs and other kinds of nonfiction. Perspective | Don’t be afraid to let children read graphic novels. They’re real books. 2020-02-27T05:00:00Z

Part sociology, part memoir, part self-help, this entertaining guide to the education system’s most notorious institution aims to explain why trauma and humiliation figure so prominently in our associations with junior high. 10 New Books We Recommend This Week 2020-05-14T04:00:00Z

The memoir’s tragic denouement is that she is not there to gaze lovingly into her Romouchka’s blue eyes once he achieves the heights she predicted. Underneath Romain Gary’s Many Masks 2017-12-13T05:00:00Z

At first, I didn’t understand why I was asked to review “Uncanny Valley,” Anna Wiener’s memoir about working for Bay Area start-ups in the 2010s. A Tech Insider Stylishly Chronicles Her Industry’s ‘Uncanny Valley’ 2020-01-03T05:00:00Z

Certainly people experienced her through the reading of the memoir, but I got to know her. "The Tender Bar" star Lily Rabe on "confident" director George Clooney: "He's a great leader" 2022-01-09T05:00:00Z

Why did you decide to write a memoir now or a memoir for this story? "Everyone can and should get our own 'Predator,'" says writer who's watched film 146 times 2022-09-11T04:00:00Z

Herein lies the greatest strength of this raw and honest memoir. This Memoirist Got By With a Little Help From Strangers 2020-10-27T04:00:00Z

And as she recounts in “The Bald Mermaid,” her sharply told memoir, out this month from Pointed Leaf Press, rather than struggle with wigs or weaves, she decided to shave her head. At Home With Sheila Bridges: Weeding Out the Riffraff 2013-07-17T23:00:39Z

Gavin Edwards interviewed all the people in my memoir — people from my old bands, people in my current bands, people from my childhood — and we left everything in their own words. “I did so many bad things with my genitals”: Blink-182’s Travis Barker opens up on sex, drugs, plane crashes and Christianity 2015-12-04T05:00:00Z

“The Iceberg” may not be a classic of the illness memoir genre, but it lands with real and unconventional force. Review: A Widow Documents Her Loss in ‘The Iceberg’ 2016-01-26T05:00:00Z

I wrote a memoir about the love I shared with the most honorable man I have ever known. Reliving the Pain (and Joy, Too) of My Deepest Love Onscreen 2021-12-22T05:00:00Z

Kathy Pories, Thompson’s U.S. editor for Algonquin Books, says he found a distinctive voice writing the memoir, while employing the vivid detail of a songwriter. British guitarist Thompson’s memoir revisits golden rock era 2021-04-06T04:00:00Z

“As soon as I crossed the Italian border my health and life seemed to be magically restored,” he wrote in his memoirs. The Roman Seasons of Tennessee Williams 2016-05-12T04:00:00Z

The result is a remarkably positive, life-affirming read, and about as far away from the realms of "misery memoir" as one can get. Beginning a new year of reading 2010-12-31T09:00:03Z

In his best-selling memoir “Will,” published last fall, he recalled watching his father punch his mother so hard that she fell and spit blood. Oscars slap sparks debate on the defense of Black women 2022-03-30T04:00:00Z

The subject is an Iranian author writing his memoirs, which cover his time as a political prisoner. Summer Movie Release Schedule 2014-05-02T22:02:27Z

“Believe me,” he writes in his amiable, conversational new memoir, “The Storyteller,” life as a rock star “is all that it’s cracked up to be and more.” Review | Dave Grohl’s ‘The Storyteller’ is just as upbeat as you’d expect 2021-10-06T04:00:00Z

In my list of forthcoming political memoirs I forgot one, by the way. Boris Johnson ? a radical voice on the arts? 2010-07-07T11:53:00Z

As he wrote in his memoir, “Private Domain,” “in my good-guy roles there was usually a demonic element.” Paul Taylor’s Canon: Flippant, Savage, Idyllic 2018-09-04T04:00:00Z

A Russian Novel shifts the geometry of memoir fully towards the personal. Emmanuel Carr?re: Betraying confidences 2010-10-19T13:19:00Z

As detailed in his memoir, addiction took over his life, a foreshadowing of the drug hangover that would sweep Hollywood by the end of the 1980s. Robert Evans, a Maverick Producer of Hollywood Classics, Dies at 89 2019-10-28T04:00:00Z

The book club cycles through a grief memoir, a psychological thriller and a “Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants” copycat starring mittens instead of jeans. At This Book Club, the Truth Is About to Come Out. It’s Not Pretty. 2021-10-05T04:00:00Z

Matt Gross is still writing about travel, as well as food, parenting and running, and is the author of the travel memoir, “The Turk Who Loved Apples.” The Frugal Five 2018-06-27T04:00:00Z

It seems no longer surprising that someone most people have never heard of has delivered a memoir: It has become the modern equivalent of an early outing to New Hampshire. A Memoir From the Young, Gay Mayor of South Bend Running for President 2019-01-24T05:00:00Z

One of them—a guy named Bill Mason—wrote a memoir where he explains that he grew up with some pretty absentee parents, and thus spent a lot of time hanging out with building superintendents. How to be a better burglar: Creeping around in buildings with Geoff Manaugh and Jeff VanderMeer 2016-06-04T04:00:00Z

Writer Tom Bromley's new book, All In The Best Possible Taste, is a memoir about growing up watching TV in the 80s. The voice of Lester Piggott as Del-Boy, and other 80s telly secrets 2010-08-13T23:06:00Z

There are no shocking revelations in his memoir, but there are a few surprises. Alex Trebek Is Still in the Game 2020-07-17T04:00:00Z

For starters, he has written a memoir, “Coming Up for Air,” which is due out this fall. Tom Daley Is All-Around Gold 2021-09-10T04:00:00Z

The memoir will be published in Germany as “Heimat” — “Homeland” — in an effort to reclaim the word from extreme right-wing and Nazi groups. A Visual Memoir Asks What It Means for Germany to Reckon With Its Past 2018-10-03T04:00:00Z

Mirvis’s story is less stark than recent memoirs of leaving ultra-Orthodox sects; Modern Orthodoxy, by definition, allows more mingling with the outside world. Losing Her Religion 2017-12-22T05:00:00Z

You wrote this beautiful memoir, and you covered so much. Jada Pinkett Smith opens up about depression, writing "Worthy" and her version of a happy ending 2023-10-17T04:00:00Z

Occasionally the many registers of the memoir fall into disharmony thematically: The dad jokes work well in the voicey-ness of the prose but distract when in, say, chapter-title placement. Review | Michael J. Fox mixes candor, humor and hope in his heartfelt new memoir 2020-11-23T05:00:00Z

That anger is never far from the surface in “The Way to the Spring”, a new memoir by Ben Ehrenreich, an American writer. The view on the ground 2016-06-09T04:00:00Z

He is writing a memoir and recently announced a deal with MTV to direct a documentary on what it means to be young and white in America. From journalism to activism: Jose Antonio Vargas’s life on the run

It’s been a great season for musician memoirs. 9 New Books We Recommend This Week 2016-12-08T05:00:00Z

Nana-Ama Danquah wrote the memoir “Willow Weep for Me” and is senior editor of African literature and culture at the Los Angeles Review of Books. Actor. Lawyer. Lover of the arts. Her uncle defied category. 2016-06-01T04:00:00Z

Those instincts end up rendering Houston slightly flat in this memoir, which portrays the singer as blindingly talented and incapacitatingly troubled, but not terribly complex. Whitney Houston’s Confidante Robyn Crawford Breaks Her Silence 2019-11-07T05:00:00Z

James Clapper, former Director of National Intelligence What We Know: In 2018, Viking will publish this memoir, which will trace Clapper’s career, including the six and a half years he worked under Obama. Is Everyone in Politics Writing a Tell-all? Yes. 2017-07-20T04:00:00Z

Bourdain, author of the explosive behind-the-scenes memoir Kitchen Confidential and follow-up Medium Raw: A Bloody Valentine to the World of Food and the People Who Cook, is currently hosting the foodie travel show No Reservations. Anthony Bourdain writes 'gourmet slaughterfest' graphic novel 2010-09-28T13:40:00Z

The acclaimed French writer Annie Ernaux took 60 years to piece together her latest memoir, “A Girl’s Story,” about the trauma of her first sexual experience, “because it was so complex.” Yes, No, Maybe So: A Generation of Thinkers Grapples With Notions of Consent 2021-06-21T04:00:00Z

In Hollywood Hills, Lady is searching for a babysitter to care for her children while she finishes her memoir, about raising a teenager who does not speak. Paperback Row 2018-03-02T05:00:00Z

Eliot's "The Waste Land," is an analytical blend of journalism, literary criticism and memoir that — like her earlier book, "Uncommon Arrangements," about unconventional literary marriages — tackles a personal obsession. In 'The Violet Hour,' Katie Roiphe looks at five great writers shuffling off this mortal coil 2016-03-04T05:00:00Z

You wrote a memoir, “Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother,” that touched on many issues around parenthood. Amy Chua: By the Book 2018-02-01T05:00:00Z

Closer to home, there’s a novel about a murder at a Maine commune, a celebration of surfing, a marriage memoir and Alexandra Kleeman’s climate-dystopian Hollywood satire, “Something New Under the Sun.” 11 New Books We Recommend This Week 2021-08-26T04:00:00Z

She described later in her own memoir how her life went “from black and white to Technicolor” after she met Wilder. Inside Gene Wilder and Gilda Radner's Romance 2016-09-22T04:00:00Z

His memoirs also contain stories of endless practical jokes and high jinks, which sounded like a regular feature of his office life. Oscar Niemeyer 2012-12-06T13:31:00Z

At 15, to overcome his fear of thunder, Liddy climbed 60 feet up an oak tree during a storm and shouted “Kill me!” at the sky, according to the memoir. Perspective | Little Liddys everywhere: The legacy of a political ‘super-klutz’ 2021-03-31T04:00:00Z

Don Shirley left no memoir, and no biography of him exists. The Music of Don Shirley Is More Resilient Than Any “Green Book” Cliché 2019-02-24T05:00:00Z

Her memoir, which will be published by powerHouse Books on March 1, combines personal history, fund-raising strategies and an informal account of some of the academy’s most memorable stagings and artists. ‘It Was a Crusade’: Karen Brooks Hopkins Revisits Her BAM Tenure 2022-02-09T05:00:00Z

To be read alongside his indispensable memoir, "Elia Kazan: A Life." Holiday gift ideas for theater lovers 2014-12-10T05:00:00Z

That's the arresting opening sentence of Sharon Egretta Sutton’s “When Ivory Towers Were Black,” an unusual hybrid of memoir, institutional history and broadside against the entrenched whiteness of the architecture profession in this country. Challenging the whiteness of American architecture, in the 1960s and today 2017-04-06T04:00:00Z

To those who have never practiced it, or to those who practice it badly, memoir writing is simply a regurgitation of life events. Russell Shorto’s Grandpa Was a ‘Smalltime’ Mobster 2021-02-02T05:00:00Z

It could be a hybrid literary genre, Lawrence demonstrated, one that seamlessly mixes closely observed, naturalistic details with the kind of inward reflections found in essays and memoirs. A case for D.H. Lawrence as a father of modern travel writing 2021-09-02T04:00:00Z

Simon & Schuster dropped a book by one Trump backer, Sen. Josh Hawley of Missouri, and faced widespread anger within the company for reaching a deal for a memoir by Trump’s vice president, Mike Pence. Trump photo book ‘Our Journey Together’ coming next month 2021-11-19T05:00:00Z

A Comic Drama,” a memoir within a memoir. ArtsBeat: Graphic Books Best Sellers: A Daughter's Therapeutic Memoir About Mom 2012-05-11T19:03:42Z

He also wrote hundreds of articles, poetry, historical fiction and such nonfiction works as the memoir “Gone to the Woods: Surviving a Lost Childhood,” which came out earlier this year. Gary Paulsen, celebrated children’s author, dies at 82 2021-10-14T04:00:00Z

On display through Aug. 3, along with photographs and diagrams of the trenches and propaganda posters from Russia, France, Germany and Britain, are diaries, letters, manuscripts, memoirs, poems, novels and drawings. Viewing World War I Through the Prism of the Personal 2014-06-19T04:00:00Z

Ms Toumani’s stirring memoir lends hope that reconciliation, imperfect though it may be, can at last be achieved. Seeing through fire 2014-12-30T05:00:00Z

But he never takes himself seriously; his memoir is a shameless dad-joke extravaganza, largely at his own expense. In Alex Trebek’s Reluctant, Moving Memoir, Life Is All About the Next Question 2020-07-21T04:00:00Z

Julia Wright, noting similarly substantial revisions required of Wright’s memoir, including its title change from “American Hunger” to “Black Boy,” described the alterations as “dismemberment.” Decades After His Death, Richard Wright Has a New Book Out 2021-04-14T04:00:00Z

“I had to haul it ‘Midnight Cowboy’-style over my shoulder on the bus and through the streets of the city,” the rocker, Bruce Springsteen, later recalled in his memoirs. A $550 Million Springsteen Deal? It’s Glory Days for Catalog Sales. 2021-12-20T05:00:00Z

Why did you decide to write a memoir now? Def Leppard’s Phil Collen: We had more in common with Duran Duran than Iron Maiden 2015-10-04T04:00:00Z

OBERLIN, Ohio — Novelist Toni Morrison tells fans in Ohio she canceled plans to write a memoir because "there's a point at which your life is not interesting." Toni Morrison tells Ohioans she won't write memoir 2012-03-15T12:30:09Z

I’m not familiar with the musician/novelist, but as far as memoirs, it’s hard to beat Keith Richards’s love of music that shines through in “Life.” Bruce Springsteen: By the Book 2014-10-30T04:00:00Z

So, in the novel I’m currently writing, a Westernized Pakistani returns to Karachi to write the memoirs of his estranged father, who was a political tyrant of a previous era. Taymour Soomro on the Sights, Sounds, and Social Dynamics of Karachi 2018-12-31T05:00:00Z

This memoir by magazine veteran Elizabeth Passarella reads as if she’s talking to her bestie in the Midwest, explaining exactly how it’s more than possible to raise kids in the Big Apple. Review | 22 books about Manhattan jet-setters that will make you feel like one 2021-07-15T04:00:00Z

Williams is the author of the forthcoming "A Series of Catastrophes & Miracles," a memoir of her experience in a clinical trial for Stage 4 cancer. In 'The Iceberg,' Marion Coutts recounts the death of her husband and achieves something extraordinary 2016-01-29T05:00:00Z

Here, now, is a remarkable new book that does everything—biography, criticism, film history, memoir, and even fiction, all at once, all out in front. Barbara Loden: “A Woman Telling Her Own Story Through That of Another Woman” 2016-11-01T04:00:00Z

But her pedigree didn’t make her life fall neatly into place, as Williams recalls in her memoir, “Don’t Tell Anybody the Secrets I Told You.” From Lucinda Williams, a Memoir as Flinty as Her Songs 2023-04-22T04:00:00Z

In a new memoir, “She Wants It: Desire, Power and Toppling the Patriarchy,” out this week, Mx. They Live in Public 2018-10-13T04:00:00Z

“I felt vindicated,” Harper wrote in her memoir. Valerie Harper, Emmy award-winning star of TV series Rhoda, dies aged 80 2019-08-30T04:00:00Z

Most C.I.A. memoirs are terrible — defensive, jingoistic and worst of all, tedious. Review: ‘Debriefing the President’ Tears Into the C.I.A. 2016-12-18T05:00:00Z

In Ms. Tan’s memoir, Mr. Halpern becomes a central, recurring character. Amy Tan, the Reluctant Memoirist 2017-10-16T04:00:00Z

In her highly publicized memoir, lead actress Linda Lovelace described being physically abused at home by her husband, who worked as a production manager on the film. Why the re-release of iconic porn film "Deep Throat" fizzled 2022-12-05T05:00:00Z

This tribute to enduring love leaps out of "Chinaberry Sidewalks," a memoir that echoes the spirit of Crowell's music. 'Chinaberry Sidewalks': Rodney Crowell's folksy, bittersweet, rollicking memoir 2011-02-04T20:16:07Z

"Vanishing Point" is a bit of a broadside against memoirs and against the reliance on memoir. "Everyone can and should get our own 'Predator,'" says writer who's watched film 146 times 2022-09-11T04:00:00Z

Diana Abu-Jaber, author of the memoir “The Language of Baklava,” indulges in a prodigious use of exclamation points, with a chaser of self-flagellation. Cultural Studies: Talking (Exclamation) Points 2011-07-01T20:53:51Z

I had J. D. Salinger on my mind while reading Marco Roth’s first book, an acute but sometimes overwrought memoir called “The Scientists: A Family Romance.” Books of The Times: In ‘The Scientists,’ Marco Roth Seeks Truth About His Family 2012-09-18T14:03:58Z

Her memoir, "Every Day Is a Gift," was released this spring. Sen. Tammy Duckworth says it was food stamps that allowed her to stay in high school 2021-05-06T04:00:00Z

It would be easy for Hudson to slip into the well-worn groove of the misery memoir made good, and there are points at which Tony Hogan threatens to lapse into cliche. Tony Hogan Bought Me an Ice-Cream Float Before He Stole My Ma, by Kerry Hudson – review 2013-07-28T09:00:00Z

"I had been in a motorcycle accident and I'd been hurt, but I recovered," he wrote in his memoir, "Chronicles." 50 years later, Dylan's motorcycle crash remains mysterious 2016-07-28T04:00:00Z

The book is also a deeply personal memoir of the author, who is a writer, filmmaker and teacher. New caregiving memoirs: wrestling with love and loss 2015-03-22T04:00:00Z

He’s so synonymous with the show, and the charm that’s made it an evening ritual, that even after a satisfying memoir, at least one question remains. Review | Alex Trebek’s memoir, ‘The Answer Is . . .,’ is everything a ‘Jeopardy!’ fan could want 2020-07-20T04:00:00Z

It is a carefully made artifact that aspires in the direction of art—as is all writing, even a memoir or an essay, which purports to be telling the truth. Failing to Write a Novel in the Most Distraction-Free Place on Earth 2017-04-12T04:00:00Z

“Lightning Flowers” is a memoir of her search for answers. This Medical Memoir Reads Like a Detective Story 2020-11-10T05:00:00Z

Former music executive Tony King's enthralling new memoir "The Tastemaker" could serve as the textbook for a masterclass on responding to change's unceasing onslaught and the challenges and prospects that it presents. Bringing John Lennon and Elton John together, and other rock tales from "The Tastemaker" Tony King 2023-02-11T05:00:00Z

With “Redefining Realness,” I complicated the transition memoir through being a young person and a person of color. With 'Surpassing Certainty,' Janet Mock provides her blueprint to self-love 2017-06-19T04:00:00Z

Every possible form of black politics and political thinking – liberal integrationism, black nationalism, Afrocentrism, apathy, activism, even the tendency to conspiracy thinking – is heard and, in the memoir, given voice. The invention of Obama 2010-04-23T23:06:00Z

Most rock memoirs run out of gas once the classic songs dry up and the major crises have been overcome, but Townshend's life after sobering up and splitting The Who in 1982 was never dull. Who I Am: A Memoir by Pete Townshend - review 2012-10-09T11:35:01Z

The Sea Inside – equal parts memoir, travelogue and nature meditation – is perhaps Hoare's most lyrical book. Philip Hoare: a life in writing 2013-06-21T15:37:01Z

“I am the one who lived to tell,” Kushner writes in the title essay of this collection, which includes memoir, journalism and criticism from the past 20 years. 15 New Books to Watch For in April 2021-03-25T04:00:00Z

Salman Rushdie is the author of 11 novels and, most recently, the autobiographical memoir “Joseph Anton.” Essay: Gabriel García Márquez’s Work Was Rooted in the Real 2014-04-21T18:37:38Z

Watch an unwitting idiot have a nervous breakdown in real time in this embarrassing and self-absorbed memoir. How Rekindling a Love for Tennis Turned Into a Raging Fire 2021-12-29T05:00:00Z

Adam Langer is the author of a memoir and five novels. Muhammad Ali in a Broadway Musical? It Happened 2019-11-28T05:00:00Z

As with most memoirs by famous people, the early parts are the most interesting. Book review: Herbie Hancock’s ‘Possibilities’

Now he has 2.1 million followers and is writing a memoir. Queer Eye's Tan France: ‘The word gay was never mentioned in my parents’ home’ 2019-03-09T05:00:00Z

The film critic and profilic Twitter user is writing a memoir. Film critic Roger Ebert writing a memoir 2010-05-14T19:11:00Z

This musical was inspired by Tori Murden McClure’s memoir “A Pearl in the Storm,” about her effort to become the first woman to row solo across the Atlantic. Williamstown Theater Festival Tries to Weather the Storms 2021-07-26T04:00:00Z

When her memoir veers to exile in Europe, its emotional punch is weaker, just as Meyer’s story lags when he strays from Sichuan, Beijing and Manchuria. Eyewitnesses to America’s Greatest International Competitor 2018-02-02T05:00:00Z

Nothing was heard about the planned memoir ever again. Will Ivana Trump raise hell with her book on bringing up the president’s babies? 2017-03-16T04:00:00Z

Former Gourmet magazine editor Ruth Reichl is joining the Random House Publishing Group, where she will both edit and write books, including a memoir of her years at the now shuttered magazine. Former Gourmet editor to join Random House 2010-10-01T14:16:00Z

Neil Young titled his recent memoir "Waging Heavy Peace," which is appropriate — at least the "heavy" part — because his new tome is 497 pages long. Neil Young and Crazy Horse play from 'Psychedelic Pill' Saturday 2012-11-08T21:10:14Z

This is the main struggle driving iO Tillett Wright’s debut memoir, “Darling Days.” Questioning Gender Amid a Chaotic East Village Childhood 2016-10-10T04:00:00Z

The novelist Reynolds Price, who died last year, paused to note the sorry status of book sections in his 2009 memoir, “Ardent Spirits.” Riff: A Critic’s Case for Critics Who Are Actually Critical 2012-08-15T15:40:06Z

New in paperback: the Bainbridge Island author's memoir of motherhood, yoga and family dynamics. Local Book: Cascadia's butterflies 2011-12-30T19:26:04Z

Her agent claims the central theme of her memoir is acceptance. The trouble with the bad mother memoir 2017-05-23T04:00:00Z

As he related in his memoir, he was so under the influence of drugs when Time magazine called to offer him a job that he thought that it might be a trick by the C.I.A. Robert Hughes, Art Critic Whose Writing Was Elegant and Contentious, Dies at 74 2012-08-07T03:48:42Z

One publisher even offered to produce her novel as memoir. Book Talk: Irish author was told 'didn't fit niche' 2014-05-22T04:00:00Z

One can expect similar candor in an upcoming memoir about Raven O’s New York adventures. Raven O, a Nightlife Fixture for Four Decades, Takes a Final Bow 2021-12-15T05:00:00Z

Mr. Verna wrote several textbooks about television production plus a novel and a memoir. Tony Verna, TV producer and director best known for inventing instant replay, dies at 81 2015-01-20T05:00:00Z

He grappled with the handling of credit cards for committee business as he criss-crossed the state campaigning among his legislative colleagues for support to be elected House speaker, Rubio recalled in his 2012 memoir. Inside Marco Rubio’s messy American Express statements 2015-11-07T05:00:00Z

The series — based on Piper Kerman’s memoir of the same name — dramatizes the experiences of a white collar criminal in an all-female minimum security prison. Big drama ahead on “Orange Is the New Black”: New trailer teases a tense season 4 2016-05-10T04:00:00Z

In her 2008 memoir “Losing It,” Bertinelli noted that Franklin, just 31 when the show began, wasn’t old enough to be her real mother. Bonnie Franklin, ‘One Day At a Time’ Star, Dies 2013-03-01T18:48:27Z

Written in the form of David’s angst-ridden memoir, this funny, provocative novel examines the grievous consequences of living in denial about what we eat. Katy Simpson Smith’s ‘The Story of Land and Sea,’ and More 2014-08-27T04:00:00Z

His legacy continues to be discussed and debated in popular culture, with the recent release of a biography, memoir and podcast about him. New York City Ballet to Honor Past and Present in 75th Year 2023-04-17T04:00:00Z

In his new memoir "No Ashes in the Fire: Coming of Age Black and Free in America," Moore shares the journey taken by that scared, bullied teenager who not only survived, but found his calling. “No Ashes in the Fire” author Darnell Moore on what it means to be “Black and Free in Ameri... 2018-07-12T04:00:00Z

Read widely and with purpose; read stories of all kinds; read with a writing implement in hand and use it often; read memoirs but mostly read fiction and personal essays. Salon’s guide to writing a memoir 2013-01-20T23:00:00Z

In contrast, that work’s newly published bookend, “The Arrogant Years: One Girl’s Search for Her Lost Youth, From Cairo to Brooklyn,” is more properly a memoir. Books of The Times: The Arrogant Years ? By Lucette Lagnado ? Review 2011-09-08T22:27:21Z

Beneath it, “Fresh Off the Boat” is a surprisingly sophisticated memoir about race and assimilation in America. Books Of the Times: ‘Fresh Off the Boat: A Memoir,’ by Eddie Huang 2013-01-24T16:12:42Z

What happened with the court case; what happened with the man Sebold admitted in the memoir she was unsure she had identified correctly? Alice Sebold's "Lucky" and the problem with memoirs with happy endings 2021-12-05T05:00:00Z

In telling her life story, the Mexican-American anchor of NPR’s “Latino USA” delivers both a memoir and a manifesto. 9 New Books We Recommend This Week 2020-10-15T04:00:00Z

Some of Michael’s fans will likely wish that this memoir was more revealing, but others will be grateful that their idol had a steadfast friend like Ridgeley. Review | Andrew Ridgeley reminisces about George Michael and the meteoric rise of Wham! 2019-10-09T04:00:00Z

Adapted from Elizabeth Gilbert's best-selling memoir, "Eat Pray Love" stars Julia Roberts as a woman traveling the world in search of enlightenment after her divorce. 'Expendables' seizes top box office spot with $35M 2010-08-15T20:31:00Z

Curtis Green, the Campbell’s Soup victim, is writing a memoir. How the Dark Web’s Dread Pirate Roberts Went Down 2017-06-12T04:00:00Z

I want to write my memoirs, too, which are kind of crazy and pathetic and, I think, interesting, and maybe even funny. “The World Is, of Course, Insane”: An Interview with Errol Morris 2019-10-28T04:00:00Z

But there are no good memoirs about being a drunk and staying a drunk. Can Sobriety Be as Interesting as Addiction? A Writer Wonders 2018-04-17T04:00:00Z

The book’s second half ditches the Hollywood memoir in favor of less structured but equally riotous material. Review | John Waters wants to wrap you in his filthy embrace 2019-05-21T04:00:00Z

In a 1999 memoir, “Some Time in America,” he admitted that it was a poor fit. Alexander Chancellor, editor who transformed Spectator magazine, dies at 77 2017-02-02T05:00:00Z

Learn all about them in this memoir that reads like a thriller. Before You Fill That Prescription, You May Want to Read These Books 2019-10-29T04:00:00Z

Peer has magnificently filled this gap in a memoir that instantly marks him out as a new star of Indian non-fiction. Curfewed Night 2010-06-19T23:10:00Z

Michael Tonello, who wrote the memoir “Bringing Home the Birkin” about his years buying and reselling Hermès bags, says he thinks that the bag’s “under the radar” silhouette may account in part for its appeal. The Herm?s Evelyne Bag Surges in Popularity 2012-02-07T22:15:05Z

That feral cover image, that title — part grind-house revenge thriller, part stream-of-conscious memoir and author photo — made me so excited that I almost burst into flames. Fiona Apple Is Back and Unbound: Let’s Discuss 2020-04-17T04:00:00Z

One flaw in this otherwise terrific memoir is the gaping hole where the narrator’s personal life might be. Memoirs Take the Wheel 2017-11-10T05:00:00Z

At its core “Being Flynn” is less about addiction than self-hatred and ego, two matters suggested by the memoir’s original title as well as its on-screen one. Paul Weitz Directs ?Being Flynn,? Starring Robert DeNiro 2012-02-24T19:34:17Z

“I couldn’t write a memoir full of life stories without animating all the invisible, and not-so-hidden, forces that rendered my blackness criminal, my black manhood vile, my black queerness sinful, and my black city hood.” Black, Gay and Becoming Visible 2018-08-08T04:00:00Z

Her literary memoir was nominated for a National Book Award in 1970 and remained on The New York Times paperback best-seller list for two years. Judy Feiffer, Who Helped Develop Two Top Memoirs, Dies at 87 2016-07-15T04:00:00Z

One of the issues with memoir as a genre is that it takes time to fully process and understand experiences. Prince Harry will offer a livestream and bonus memoir content, but who is all this for? 2023-02-28T05:00:00Z

It’s fair to wonder how accurate these books are, for there’s some incentive when selling a memoir to embellish adventures. What to Read if You Want to Know More About North Korea 2018-01-01T05:00:00Z

The first pick of the new iteration was Cheryl Strayed's memoir "Wild." Oprah Winfrey selects Imbolo Mbue's 'Behold the Dreamers' for her book club 2017-06-26T04:00:00Z

Here, we have the heart of this memoir — and I do mean heart. Hard-won wisdom in Abigail Thomas' 'What Comes Next and How to Like It' 2015-03-20T04:00:00Z

Of course, Mr. Weinstein does love a good controversy, and the most intriguing footage may have been “Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom,” based on Nelson Mandela’s 1994 memoir. ArtsBeat: Cannes Film Festival: The Harvey Weinstein Show 2013-05-18T00:52:08Z

The result is both a constitutional law seminar and a memoir of her family’s history with domestic violence. 14 Plays and Musicals to Go to in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2018-10-25T04:00:00Z

At some point I'm going to write a graphic memoir, which is very daunting because it just isn't my medium. "It's a tool, it's a Swiss Army knife": Aimee Mann on how individuals deal with trauma through art 2023-01-06T05:00:00Z

Machado understands that memoir, like architecture, requires a sense of proportion. Carmen Maria Machado’s Many Haunted Stories of a Toxic Relationship 2019-10-31T04:00:00Z

They contained the hand-written memoirs, as well as a text on a lottery, and a note to the emperor of Austria to end the system of usury and correspondence. Casanova at the National Library in France 2011-11-28T23:30:08Z

Ashcroft, the Bush chief of staff Andrew Card and the Justice Department lawyer Jack Goldsmith, who were all in the room, give their accounts, alongside extracts from Comey’s memoir. Review: In ‘Enemies,’ There’s No Doubt Who’s the Enemy in Chief 2018-11-16T05:00:00Z

“That’s when I was more open and accepting that the book was a memoir and that hopefully it would be useful for people,” he explains. David Chang’s Memoir, ‘Eat a Peach,’ Provides Food for Thought 2020-09-24T04:00:00Z

Jack Phillips’ memoir, currently untitled, will be released this summer by Salem Books Publishing. Colorado baker who sparked Supreme Court case has book deal 2020-01-30T05:00:00Z

The story seems to arrive from a distant place, as if it were some alternate version of “The Diving Bell and the Butterfly,” the memoir that Jean-Dominique Bauby dictated with blinks of his eyes. ‘Wolf in White Van,’ by John Darnielle 2014-09-25T04:00:00Z

Many good memoirs have been written by antiquarian booksellers. Love the Smell of Old Books? This Bookseller Would Like You to Leave. 2022-07-18T04:00:00Z

Dunham released a statement apologizing for triggering painful responses by including the offending passages in the memoir. Sarah Palin Says Media Ignored 'Pedophile' Lena Dunham While Shaming Duggars 2015-06-04T04:00:00Z

Yet the memoir will be his first comprehensive account of his personal and professional life. John Kerry to Write Memoir for Simon & Schuster 2017-03-09T05:00:00Z

Maya Angelou: her memoir about her mother undermines the account given in I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings. Mom & Me & Mom by Maya Angelou – review 2013-04-22T06:30:01Z

And I think if you say something is a poet's memoir, what expectation does that bring to your mind? Maggie Smith on her memoir's unanswerable questions and feeling ambivalent about "Good Bones" 2023-04-13T04:00:00Z

Woodfox spends the first sections of his uncommonly powerful memoir, “Solitary: Unbroken by Four Decades in Solitary Confinement. My Story of Transformation and Hope,” objectively detailing his young life of crime. ‘Solitary’ Is an Uncommonly Powerful Memoir About Four Decades in Confinement 2019-03-04T05:00:00Z

Mantel’s memoir of her “tough childhood and a serious illness,” a Times reviewer wrote, “does not reassure. It scalds.” A Writer Who Stared Down Her Past, and the World’s, With Steely Resolve 2022-09-23T04:00:00Z

Suzanne Berne is the author of three novels and most recently a memoir, “Missing Lucile: Memories of a Grandmother I Never Knew.” Books of The Times: ‘Y’ by Marjorie Celona 2013-01-09T19:43:08Z

He had written multiple memoirs, curated fashion exhibitions and counseled aspiring designers, as well as veteran ones. Perspective | André Leon Talley became an icon by never losing faith in the glory of fashion 2022-01-19T05:00:00Z

Yet you’ll find none of that in Schwarcz’s memoir, “The Absent Moon,” which will be released in the United States by Penguin Press on Feb. 28. A Publishing Superstar Whose Memoir Shuns Glitz to Explore Private Torment 2023-02-24T05:00:00Z

I spent most of a year there to gather material for a culinary memoir and can confirm the absence of all those things. Is Gascony the Most Delicious Corner of France? 2017-03-15T04:00:00Z

Markus Dohle, Penguin Random House’s chief executive, told the Wall Street Journal, “I’m not aware, in my personal experience with Penguin Random House, that we ever sold 10 million units of a memoir.” Michelle Obama’s ‘Becoming’ could become the best-selling memoir ever 2019-03-26T04:00:00Z

This is her raw and honest memoir of learning to open up, branch out and allow herself to be seen and known in that room and the world. 11 New Books We Recommend This Week 2020-12-17T05:00:00Z

The memoir uses the incident to chart McGowan’s martyred path through the hidden perils of Hollywood. Brave: Rose McGowan, the angry voice who pursued Hollywood’s beasts, tells her story 2018-01-07T05:00:00Z

Now, two and half years later, he has written a memoir. “There are not a lot of happy people on Wall Street”: Sam Polk opens up about greed, wealth and toxic masculinity 2016-07-16T04:00:00Z

In the book, the author — once a theatre critic for the Globe and Mail and now a journalism professor at Ryerson University — artfully melded the personal and political into a powerful memoir. What it means to be brown: Cheap labor, scapegoated Muslims and exploited immigrants, from Canada to Qatar 2016-05-09T04:00:00Z

In his memoir, “Without Stopping,” he described the scene when his wife first set foot on the estate. In Sri Lanka, an Island of Detachment and Desire 2014-12-26T05:00:00Z

“As a child of divorce, I knew how hard it can be when your parents start to date other people,” she writes in her memoir. The story of Kamala and Doug, a match made in Hollywood (literally) 2020-08-18T04:00:00Z

His 2008 memoir, a well of angst, is entitled “The Other Great Depression.” Richard Lewis is not as miserable as he appears. But he’s still miserable. 2020-02-28T05:00:00Z

I swear to God, if she writes a memoir, half of Brooklyn is going to commit suicide. The unstoppable allure of Gwynethfreude 2011-03-09T21:10:00Z

I could understand the appeal of Mayes’s memoir to, for instance, my mother, who loves nothing more than to plot the construction of a new dream house. Under the Crushing Weight of the Tuscan Sun 2016-03-11T05:00:00Z

Waters's new book, Role Models, a memoir recording some of the influences that shaped him, has given him another chance to add to his repertoire of tales. Still Waters 2010-12-04T00:03:00Z

Below are edited excerpts from the conversation: Why did you decide to write a memoir at this point in your career? ArtsBeat: Renounced Ambition: David Schickler Talks About ‘The Dark Path’ 2013-09-11T21:10:52Z

Harry appears to have left no stone unturned in his book, although he promises there is more, enough for a possible second memoir, as he told The Telegraph. The real reason Prince Harry spilled his dark secrets in "Spare" – whether you want to know or not 2023-01-18T05:00:00Z

More than a decade later, Cassava Republic has published more than 50 titles, and has expanded into romance, crime, memoir, fantasy, science fiction and children’s books. A Wave of New Fiction From Nigeria, as Young Writers Experiment With New Genres 2017-11-23T05:00:00Z

His show is a “kind of a performance art memoir,” he said in a telephone interview. Some Highlights of the Fringe Festival 2010-08-12T20:47:00Z

She is also the author of a memoir and two novels, including “The Giant’s House,” a finalist for the National Book Award in 1996. Elizabeth McCracken Wins $20,000 Story Prize 2015-03-04T05:00:00Z

Stand-up is not memoir or therapy or a political essay, even if it shares elements with all of these forms. If Comedy Is Making You Feel Bad, You’re Not Paying Attention 2018-07-26T04:00:00Z

“I hadn’t realized the sheer scope of his nonfiction,” said the Nigerian writer Emmanuel Iduma, who, like Wainaina, has experimented with form, producing two highly original books of memoir, travel and reportage. A Provocative Satirist Left a Pervasive Legacy, Influencing African Writing 2023-05-29T04:00:00Z

A first memoir, “Redefining Realness,” followed three years later. True Romance: Janet Mock on the Final Season of ‘Pose’ 2021-04-30T04:00:00Z

“I wonder: What would have happened if I had stopped borrowing dresses and had started wearing only the clothes I could afford to buy?” she wrote in her memoir “My Turn.” In first lady, Nancy Reagan found the role of a lifetime 2016-03-06T05:00:00Z

While I am decades past the era investigated by essayist Melissa Febos, her third memoir resonated with my own fraught emergence under surveillance and scrutiny. Review | Melissa Febos’s ‘Girlhood’ brilliantly illuminates how women are conditioned to be complicit in their own exploitation 2021-03-27T04:00:00Z

This is where “From the Corner of the Oval” shatters the genre of the Washington memoir. A White House Memoir That’s Equal Parts C-Span and ‘Sex and the City’ 2018-07-10T04:00:00Z

Former President Barack Obama — whose memoir came out this week, prompting the Booker to reschedule its ceremony — spoke about some of his favorite Booker-winning novels, and the solace he takes in reading fiction. Douglas Stuart Wins Booker Prize for ‘Shuggie Bain’ 2020-11-19T05:00:00Z

The film is based on a memoir of the same name, about growing up in Long Island in the '70s and '80s. "The Tender Bar" star Lily Rabe on "confident" director George Clooney: "He's a great leader" 2022-01-09T05:00:00Z

Ms. Manzano’s memoir, “Becoming Maria: Love and Chaos in the South Bronx,” a chronicle of her journey from an impoverished childhood amid domestic violence to adulthood, was released in late August. Maria on ‘Sesame Street,’ Sonia Manzano, Tells of Her Own Childhood 2015-09-01T04:00:00Z

The currently untitled memoir, due next February, is being billed as "the definitive account of Whitney Houston's astonishing life" and death last February at the age of 48. Whitney Houston's mother writing tell-all book 2012-06-05T20:17:13Z

It's a memoir of Christiansen's childhood and his parents' divorce in the 1960s. William Nicholson's cultural highlights 2013-03-09T15:00:01Z

Recently for a course I taught on personal essays and memoir, I included Barack Obama’s profound book “Dreams from My Father” on the syllabus. The truth about the campus “free speech wars” 2017-04-23T04:00:00Z

A memoir by a Seattle author who teaches English at Highline Community College. Local books: A history of the 'Shadow Tribe'; local sports trivia; fantasy for young teens 2010-07-12T23:30:00Z

Unfortunately, this is a slight, anecdotal and badly edited book that rehashes stories from previous memoirs. Mom & Me & Mom by Maya Angelou – review 2013-04-22T06:30:01Z

Describing the book as "a dialogue between his life and mine", writing a memoir is something which Carver, 65, has been pondering, collecting notes and setting down memories, ever since her father died in 1993. William Golding's daughter reveals his 'darker side' in new book 2010-09-19T16:25:00Z

Mukasonga has written before, including in her memoir “Cockroaches,” about the 37 members of her family massacred in the Rwandan genocide in 1994. 9 New Books We Recommend This Week 2018-12-13T05:00:00Z

James, a Seattle resident, writes a memoir of her year in Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire, as a Fulbright professor. Local Books: classical drawing, jazz interviews 2011-12-05T21:56:06Z

She didn’t bother writing a memoir until 1968; “Silent Star” is now out of print. The guilty pleasure of reading Hollywood memoirs 2017-06-29T04:00:00Z

And so, Woolf threads through her memoir as a conduit between scenes or emotions. A Grieving Woman’s Eloquent Homage to Virginia Woolf 2019-02-11T05:00:00Z

Written mostly in the form of a memoir, “Sight” recounts the history of the narrator’s struggle to arrive at her decision, a process that goes beyond mere difficulty to something more like torture. “Sight” and The Pleasures of Overthinking Motherhood 2018-08-22T04:00:00Z

I wanted it to be a spunky sports memoir of happiness and joy, but I was steeped in dark memoirs when I was writing it. How Rekindling a Love for Tennis Turned Into a Raging Fire 2021-12-29T05:00:00Z

Only a third of this memoir is spent at war, but these hundred pages or so, which contrast Busch's own joyous freedoms of a rural upbringing, evidence further insight. 'Dust to Dust': born to be a soldier 2012-03-28T19:26:05Z

In the memoir, Cissy Houston says she was not aware of the early "partying" days of her daughter, known to the family as "Nippy." Whitney Houston's mother wonders if she could have saved singer 2013-01-23T21:45:49Z

In interviews from around the time of the memoir’s publication, Ms. Hussey had expressed some approval of how the scene was filmed, telling Variety that it was tastefully shot. Teen Stars of ‘Romeo and Juliet’ Sue Over Nudity in 1968 Film 2023-01-04T05:00:00Z

Commenting on Hornby's hiring, Witherspoon said: "Nick's innate blend of humanity and humour are a perfect match for Cheryl's raw emotional memoir." Nick Hornby to go Wild for new Reese Witherspoon film 2012-11-30T13:36:52Z

She’s the kind of writer who pauses in the middle of a memoir to suddenly ask, in genuine puzzlement: “What is a woman for? What should a woman be?” In Deborah Levy’s Latest, a Student of History Learns to Confront His Own 2019-10-09T04:00:00Z

This is Bergen’s second memoir, a follow-up to her 1984 bestseller, “Knock Wood,” which recounted her upbringing as the daughter of famed Charlie McCarthy ventriloquist Edgar Bergen. ‘I wanted to be Murphy Brown’ 2015-04-08T04:00:00Z

At this time of collective reckoning for the cultural treatment of young female artists and stars like Brittney Spears, O'Connor's memoir presents a compelling and deeply human case for reexamining our treatment of her. Sinead O’Connor details her infamous Pope photo-ripping protest in new bombshell memoir 2021-06-03T04:00:00Z

This tribute to enduring love leaps out of “Chinaberry Sidewalks,” a memoir that echoes the spirit of Mr. Crowell’s music. Books of The Times: Sad and True Love Story, Worthy of Its Soundtrack 2011-01-12T22:25:13Z

One recurring theme of Lloyd Webber’s memoir is his increasingly fractious relationship with Rice. Andrew Lloyd Webber, Hotheaded Perfectionist 2018-03-22T04:00:00Z

For this memoir, her focus is on her father’s death in 2001 and what she calls “the democracy of loss.” Review | Actress Alexandra Silber reflects on loss and solace in ‘White Hot Grief Parade’ 2018-06-29T04:00:00Z

When I ask him whether he will ever write an unvarnished memoir, filling in those gaps that I and people at literary festivals badger him about, he gives a firm no. Edward St Aubyn: 'Writing is horrible' 2011-08-17T20:30:02Z

Coincidentally, both women are currently settling in New York to present new stage memoirs that mix storytelling and songs. Melissa Etheridge and Jill Sobule Bring Their Whole Lives to the Stage 2022-10-11T04:00:00Z

Now, with Mr. Sanford in his final year in office, Mrs. Sanford is publishing her elegant evisceration of a memoir, “Staying True.” 2010-02-06T05:10:00Z

His memoir, titled “Will,” is a grandiose and gripping self-mythology of surmounting fear through recklessness. Perspective | Little Liddys everywhere: The legacy of a political ‘super-klutz’ 2021-03-31T04:00:00Z

In his memoir, Mr. Patch said the recipients of Bedford’s services included the dissident Soviet writer and Nobel laureate Alexander Solzhenitsyn and Svetlana Stalina, the daughter of the late Soviet dictator. Isaac Patch, who led CIA-financed program to distribute books in the Soviet Union, dies

These may seem pedestrian or cliched questions, but read Harry Crews's memoir and see if you don't consider such questions more deeply. Glenn Taylor's top 10 books of the American South 2011-04-13T09:41:42Z

Mr. Kurzweil will discuss his memoir, about investigating the life of his boarding school roommate, with Susan Morrison, articles editor of The New Yorker. Spare Times Listings for Feb. 6-12 2015-02-05T05:00:00Z

Kathleen Hale, the author and illustrator of the Orlando the Marmalade Cat books, whose splendid memoir “A Slender Reputation” makes me think she’d be a good dinner guest. Elizabeth McCracken: By the Book 2019-01-24T05:00:00Z

This is the story Mr. Onwuachi, now 29, tells in his new memoir, “Notes From a Young Black Chef,” written with Joshua David Stein and published by Knopf. A Young Chef, and a Stunning Comeback 2019-04-16T04:00:00Z

Though Carrington completed it after the fact, her memoir hews closely to her thoughts and feelings as they were then. Leonora Carrington Rewrote the Surrealist Narrative for Women 2017-05-22T04:00:00Z

Mary Pols, the author of a memoir, “Accidentally on Purpose,” is editor of Maine Women Magazine. Alice Hoffman Brings Magical Realism to the Holocaust Novel 2019-09-24T04:00:00Z

The memoir suggests a pattern of risk, adventure and solitude. David Hallberg’s Tell All (About His Own Psyche) 2017-11-07T05:00:00Z

Chung’s search for her biological roots, after being raised in Oregon by white parents who adopted her from Korean parents, has to be one of this year’s finest books, let alone memoirs. The 10 books to read in October 2018-10-01T04:00:00Z

“Carsick,” a blend of fiction and hitchhiking memoir, was recently released in paperback. Spare Times for May 22-28 2015-05-21T04:00:00Z

The whole time Lady is procrastinating on the composition of her memoir — “my horrible book” — she’s revealing to us the complicated details of her life that her agent wants her to trim away. The trouble with the bad mother memoir 2017-05-23T04:00:00Z

Since the best memoirs are also cultural histories, you also get sharp renderings of the suburban America that shaped her and the Budapest that her father’s assimilated, well-to-do Jewish family fled.” New & Noteworthy 2018-06-26T04:00:00Z

“Girl in a Band” is in some ways a curious title for Gordon’s memoir. Kim Gordon, Kurt Cobain, and Punk Myth-Making 2015-02-24T05:00:00Z

“It was that old double standard again,” she explains in “Coal Miner’s Daughter,” the memoir, published in 1976, that she named after her signature song. Loretta Lynn’s New Album, and the Trail She Blazed in Country Music 2018-10-16T04:00:00Z

“That was the gold standard, and there were just so many guys of that generation publishing their memoirs,” says Thornton. Rise of the female rock memoir 2015-09-04T04:00:00Z

An absolute stunner of a memoir from Ms. Faludi, whose father, a Hungarian-Jewish survivor of the Holocaust, decided at 76 to have a sex-change operation. The Top Books of 2016 2016-12-14T05:00:00Z

According to Little, Brown, Pinkney and his wife had been working on a memoir at the time of his death. Jerry Pinkney, award-winning illustrator, dies at 81 2021-10-21T04:00:00Z

They wait in winding lines to tell a doctor that her cancer memoir got them through a dark year. The book is dead. Long live the book festival. 2017-08-29T04:00:00Z

This is a pretty standard description for memoirs. The anticipation around Prince Harry's "Spare," from its ghostwriter to the memoir genre 2022-11-01T04:00:00Z

If that interests you there is also a workshop on how to write your own memoir. This week's new events 2013-05-11T05:00:26Z

His memoir Dropped Names, published earlier this year, comprises 65 sketches of “famous men and women as I knew them.” Robot & Frank: An Endearing Showcase for Langella's Star Turn 2012-08-16T14:29:17Z

Choreography was not documented through dance notation in the Soviet Union, although Vaynonen's widow's memoirs illuminated many details for Messerer about the choreographer's intentions and style with specific descriptions of the ballet's steps. 'Flames of Paris' blazes anew with Mikhailovsky Ballet at Segerstrom 2014-11-22T05:00:00Z

A celebrity memoir, the sort of book I could only ever justify to myself if I bought it for fifty cents.  Fiction: You Live Here Now 2012-07-14T16:00:00Z

It is certainly possible to enjoy the second volume of Riad Sattouf’s graphic memoir, “The Arab of the Future 2: A Childhood in the Middle East, 1984-1985,” without having read its predecessor. Review: In ‘The Arab of the Future 2,’ Back to Syria in 1984 2016-10-19T04:00:00Z

She’s written about her early years, her drinking, a divorce, and her recovery and Catholicism in two other memoirs, “Cherry” and “Lit.” Mary Karr on the “loser, outsider weirdos” of memoir and skipping the David Foster Wallace movie: “The whole St. David thing … it’s a little hard to take” 2015-09-27T04:00:00Z

The books include the memoir “That Time of Year,” a late fall release in which Keillor is expected to address the allegations. Philip Roth biography, pulled last month, has new publisher 2021-05-17T04:00:00Z

The way for me to avoid writing a memoir was to flip the gender and imagine a bunch of other conflicts. “How accidentally a fate is made”: Ed Tarkington on love and its complications, the toll of mental and physical illness — and how dark episodes become the seeds of story 2015-12-27T05:00:00Z

Celebrity memoirs seem to be failing to hit as hard as they’re expected to. Lena Dunham, Mindy Kaling, Aziz Ansari: We’re not buying their books — but we’re paying for them in other ways 2016-01-13T05:00:00Z

And the book, "Fresh Off the Boat," is hardly your typical celebrity chef's memoir. Blogger, chef, writer, thinker? Huang hates labels 2013-02-07T22:16:08Z

Loosely constructed around a series of firsts — first meeting, first kiss — the memoir recounts Huda’s ambivalent exploration of traditional courtship, even as it reveals the appeal of “life made rich by rituals.” Review | Love is complicated in the charming ‘First Comes Marriage’ 2018-11-16T05:00:00Z

His memoir traces his roots; it doesn’t prophesy his future. 17 Great Books About American Presidents for Presidents’ Day Weekend 2017-02-17T05:00:00Z

The Grammar of God is part memoir, part treatise. What can we learn from translations of the Bible? 2016-02-20T05:00:00Z

Schumer follows in the recent tradition of successful women comedians publishing highly anticipated memoirs. Amy Schumer Is Writing a Book — And It's Going to Be Big 2015-09-22T04:00:00Z

It’s partly a memoir and partly a work of investigative reporting. Jill Abramson’s Book Charts Journalism’s Stormy Seas, With Some Personal Regrets and Score-Settling 2019-01-22T05:00:00Z

Part history and part memoir, “The Mother Court” consists mostly of a review of the SDNY’s signature cases in the 20th century. Courtly love 2014-06-26T04:00:00Z

This beautifully written memoir deals with the nature of family, the emotions of exile and the ties that link the present with the past—in particular the son with his father, Jaballa Matar. O mio babbino caro 2016-06-30T04:00:00Z

Obama’s wife, former first lady Michelle Obama, released a young readers edition of her memoir “Becoming” earlier this year. Obama adapts ‘Dreams from My Father’ for young readers 2021-07-14T04:00:00Z

Britney Spears’s highly anticipated memoir, which is expected to chronicle the years she spent in a restrictive conservatorship that ultimately came to a dramatic end in a Los Angeles courtroom, will be released on Oct. Britney Spears Will Tell Her Side in Memoir Arriving in October 2023-07-11T04:00:00Z

His new memoir, "Too Good to Be True," details everything that went wrong after that, from deep financial troubles to the rupture of his marriage while his wife was pregnant with their son. ArtsBeat: On the Rocks: Benjamin Anastas Talks About 'Too Good to Be True' 2012-10-18T19:55:53Z

In retirement, he grew grapes on his ranch in the Alexander Valley and worked on his memoirs, which he completed shortly before his death. John Carl Warnecke, Designed Kennedy?s Grave Site, Dies at 91 2010-04-23T02:09:00Z

If you’re looking for a primer to the saga of the Duke and Duchess of Sussex, this book is a good place to start — at least until Prince Harry’s own memoir is published. New in Paperback: ‘What You Are Going Through,’ ‘Finding Freedom’ 2021-09-03T04:00:00Z

Center Street announced Wednesday that the currently untitled memoir is scheduled for September 2011. Florence Henderson signs deal to write memoir 2011-01-19T17:35:08Z

Or because you read memoirs for truths of all kinds, not sunny days, rainbows and unicorns? Motherlode Blog: Motherlode Book Club Video: Anne and Sam Lamott on His Unexpected Fatherhood 2012-03-22T16:04:03Z

Evidently this philosophy inspired her memoirs as well. The scandalous Lillian Hellman 2011-01-22T00:06:27Z

I’ve spent the past few months on a book tour, promoting my memoir, “Heavy.” Gioncarlo Valentine’s Searing Portrait of the Fears of Young Black Men 2019-06-29T04:00:00Z

First lady memoirs are practically their own industry — reliably lucrative products, netting advances of a million dollars and up. The Melania controversy is nothing new: Eleanor Roosevelt pitched hot dog buns. 2017-02-08T05:00:00Z

Ms. Hardy is a writer whose memoir, “Confessions of a Latter-Day Virgin,” explores her complicated relationship with religion. The Modern Love Podcast: Justina Machado Reads ‘Single, Female, Mormon, Alone’ 2017-03-08T05:00:00Z

This isn’t a memoir; it’s a terrifically astute portrait of Leonard Cohen by a biographer who deeply understands him. Rock ’n’ Roll and Write 2012-11-22T21:38:44Z

Regardless, last year Dr. Gagliano published a heady and meandering memoir about the conversations with plants that inspired her peer-reviewed work, titled “Thus Spoke the Plant.” Do Plants Have Something to Say? 2019-08-26T04:00:00Z

The process of maintaining the authenticity of the memoir through TV was something Huang was firm in doing. TCA 15: 'Fresh Off the Boat' producers talk changing perceptions 2015-01-14T05:00:00Z

“You need to write a memoir,” he said. From dominatrix to professor: ‘I didn’t want my students to imagine me tying men up’ 2017-05-06T04:00:00Z

Johnson’s memoir earned glowing reviews for its unflinching and at times exuberant look at the challenges and joys of growing up Black and queer. Book Banning Efforts Surged in 2021. These Titles Were the Most Targeted. 2022-04-04T04:00:00Z

At the moment, as a result, he has a volume of his friend Freddie Foreman's gangster memoirs on the go, as well as Jack Kornfield's Buddhist bestseller, A Path With Heart. Tricky: 'I can still be really dark in my mind' 2010-09-18T23:05:00Z

In 1979, a book purporting to be Shostakovich’s memoir, entitled “Testimony,” appeared in the West, depicting a frustrated composer who despised Communism and hid veiled critiques of the Soviet regime in his music. Julian Barnes and the Shostakovich Wars 2016-05-26T04:00:00Z

Price's third volume of memoir, "Ardent Spirits: Leaving Home, Coming Back," was published in 2009. Reynolds Price, author and Duke professor, dies 2011-01-21T11:53:09Z

In 1989 he published a memoir, with recipes, “The Unforgettable Dishes of My Life.” Egon Ronay, Publisher of Food Guides, Dies at 94 2010-06-15T03:53:00Z

Williams, author of the award-winning memoir "Refuge: An Unnatural History of Family and Place," talks about writing as poetry, as politics, as conferral and as confessional. 'When Women Were Birds': Grappling with a mother's parting gift 2012-04-11T22:26:06Z

His memoir, “Art, Life and UFOs,” was published in 2009 by Anomalist Books. Budd Hopkins, Abstract Artist and U.F.O. Author, Dies at 80 2011-08-25T03:59:54Z

In just three or four paragraphs, she brilliantly parses something you might have felt about dozens of memoirs without ever putting it quite this way. A Serious Reader Offers Appealingly Casual Thoughts on Reading, and Life 2018-12-19T05:00:00Z

She made it up in volume, she said in her memoir, generating some 400 letters over about a year and a half. Lee Israel, a Writer Proudest of Her Literary Forgeries, Dies at 75 2015-01-07T05:00:00Z

Novels and memoirs are endgames, while screenplays are drafts that will be altered and embellished by actors, directors, and the like before they reach their final form. All writers should read Robert McKee 2013-04-10T20:47:00Z

He recently published a memoir, “JGV: A Life in 12 Recipes.” How Jean-Georges Vongerichten Went From ‘No Good’ Kid to 4-Star Chef 2020-01-14T05:00:00Z

Details are scant about this memoir, which promises an unvarnished look at the singer’s trials and triumphs. 15 Books to Watch For in September 2020-08-27T04:00:00Z

Neither of the smart and entertaining new memoirs by Henry Winkler and John Stamos inspires such odium — even if both TV stars have written books that traffic heavily in their authors’ lesser angels. Under the Leather Jackets: Anxiety, Bravado and the Keys to TV Stardom 2023-10-24T04:00:00Z

But the "characters" were now herself and her husband and she didn't want her memoir to read like a novel, a well-shaped tale. Joyce Carol Oates writes memoir of grief 2011-02-11T13:01:04Z

It’s been 20 years since Anthony Bourdain published his best-selling memoir “Kitchen Confidential,” with its solemn warning: Never order fish on Mondays. The Wildly Funny Samantha Irby Is Back, Not a Moment Too Soon 2020-04-01T04:00:00Z

This woman, who now lives on a sheep farm with her partner and child, showed me a memoir she’d written about her hard-rocking youth. Rachel Kushner Remembers Her Hard-Rocking Friends, Many of Whom Are Gone 2021-04-09T04:00:00Z

Among the memoirs and documentaries, exhibitions and — in recent years — the observance of International Holocaust Remembrance Day, a counterculture of skepticism and audience fatigue has grown up. Two New Books Look at the Holocaust in Civic and Military Terms 2017-01-03T05:00:00Z

She quotes a Marine’s memoir recounting how Americans’ antipathy toward the Nazis couldn’t compare to their “burning hatred” for the Japanese. ‘Looking for the Good War’ Says Our Nostalgia for World War II Has Done Real Harm 2021-11-29T05:00:00Z

And yet Hart, in this heart-rending memoir, finds the words and pictures to convey the gaping sensory experience of his tragedy. Best graphic novels of 2016 2016-11-17T05:00:00Z

There is a moment which perfectly illustrates how to console a dying person in the Dutch author Connie Palmen’s moving memoir Logbook, when her husband, a leading Dutch politician, lies dying. How to die well | Johannes Klabbers 2017-01-29T05:00:00Z

The United States Secret Service isn’t known for its sense of humor, but when it gave Jared Kushner the code name “mechanic,” was someone betting that he’d call his memoir “Breaking History”? Jared Kushner’s ‘Breaking History’ Is a Soulless and Very Selective Memoir 2022-08-17T04:00:00Z

Elias, a Syrian-born musician and filmmaker, is the author of the 2013 memoir “Harley Loco: A Memoir of Hard Living, Hair, and Post Punk, from the Middle East to the Lower East Side.” Elizabeth Gilbert and Rayya Elias tie the knot in 'ceremony of love' 2017-06-07T04:00:00Z

Did any memoirs inspire your own, “I Was a Child”? Bruce Eric Kaplan’s “Bedtime Stories” 2019-06-03T04:00:00Z

Now, in a new memoir, he is ready to tell all the jokes he has been sitting on for the last 10 years. Al Franken Has Been Sitting on Jokes for a Decade. Now He’s Ready to Tell Them. 2017-05-29T04:00:00Z

Mr. Shteyngart’s most recent book, the memoir “Little Failure,” was published to critical acclaim in January. New Novel From Shteyngart Will Be an ‘International Thriller’ 2014-03-25T17:25:25Z

How was the transition from fiction to memoir? "Survival Math" author Mitchell Jackson reckons with his "All-American" life 2019-03-05T05:00:00Z

His memoir, “The Color of Water,” is a contemporary classic, and his National Book Award-winning novel, “The Good Lord Bird,” cemented his place as a great American novelist. A Set of Brilliant Miniatures by the Author of ‘The Good Lord Bird’ 2017-10-23T04:00:00Z

Readers, both familiar and unfamiliar with Harry’s career, will enjoy this memoir because on nearly every page she proves she’s more than just a pretty blonde in a pair of tight pants. Review | In her memoir, Debbie Harry gives an unvarnished look at her life in the punk scene 2019-09-26T04:00:00Z

In a case of life imitating art, McKellen, like his Holmes, is about to write a memoir. For McKellen, one more role as one of the world’s most indelible characters 2015-07-17T04:00:00Z

While you were writing your memoir, did you notice any patterns or themes in your life? How Lenny Kravitz Keeps His Cool 2020-09-23T04:00:00Z

Again, we seem to be reading memoirs, as the narrator — now affectionately nicknamed Patoche — recalls an almost magical year of his childhood. ‘Suspended Sentences’: An eloquent taste of the 2014 Nobel Prize winner in literature

His origin story is rooted in “absolute, overwhelming fear,” as he wrote in his memoir. Perspective | Little Liddys everywhere: The legacy of a political ‘super-klutz’ 2021-03-31T04:00:00Z

“I was besieged by rainbows,” they recalled in a forthcoming memoir. Music, Science and Healing Intersect in an A.I. Opera 2022-10-28T04:00:00Z

“She said, ‘Pop the seed and grow toward the light,’ ” said Ms. Cleveland, who now lives outside Philadelphia, where she raises peacocks and is writing her memoirs. American Fashion?s Coming-Out in Paris 2011-01-12T22:38:19Z

Why has Vance's memoir been so successful given its many faults? Historian Anthony Harkins on the real story of white poverty and "Hillbilly Elegy" 2020-12-27T05:00:00Z

Smith wrote a 2010 memoir, "Just Kids," about her relationship with Mapplethorpe during the late 1960s and early 1970s as lovers and friends discovering their creative possibilities and beginning to make headway in their careers. Getty Museum and LACMA to combine for two-venue Mapplethorpe show 2015-04-02T04:00:00Z

Jill Bialosky, a prolific poet and essayist who is a top editor at W. W. Norton & Company, is facing accusations that passages in her new memoir, “Poetry Will Save Your Life,” are plagiarized. Jill Bialosky, Poet and Editor, Faces Plagiarism Accusations 2017-10-04T04:00:00Z

Of course, Adelstein, also an executive producer, endured worse after breaking the story at the core of his memoir. ‘Tokyo Vice’ Revisits a Faded Underworld 2022-04-01T04:00:00Z

But this, we learn in his memoir “Hollywood Park,” was far from the full story of his predicament. Review | From cult to Stanford to stardom: ‘Hollywood Park’ traces an indie rocker’s tumultuous path 2020-05-29T04:00:00Z

But compiling a selection of pictures from decades ago is a different task than covering current events, he notes in his new photo-heavy memoir. Review | In the galleries: Photojournalist’s memoir is a tale of two cities 2019-01-11T05:00:00Z

He understood, as Corbett wrote in a fine memoir about Guston’s late work, that “the human reality of American corruption and political violence is not simply a matter of us and them.” Perspective | Anger at Donald Trump may turn great artists into political cartoonists. It’s happened before. 2020-09-03T04:00:00Z

Platt’s memoir is a timely and delectable smorgasbord of dishes and dishing. Who’s in the Kitchen: A Quartet of Culinary Narratives 2019-11-12T05:00:00Z

With all due respect — because I have a lot of friends who have written great memoirs about being autistic — my feeling was that my story is compelling but it’s not the whole story. He Is a Journalist With Autism, but in His Book, That’s Not the Whole Story 2021-08-16T04:00:00Z

Also in the running are memoirs from Agassi and Moore, of which the former's prompted quite the range of opinion in this parish. William Hill Sports Book of the Year 2010: who should win? 2010-10-26T13:48:00Z

In this case, unfortunately, it's not.  is Salon's TV critic and author of Her memoir, "Disaster Preparedness," is due from Riverhead Books in December 2010. "The Big C": Kooky, unsexy cancer 2010-08-14T23:01:00Z

This memoir recounts his time there and builds a case against the ineptitude of England’s prison system. 12 New Books We Recommend This Week 2020-06-11T04:00:00Z

His memoir A Preparation for Death is an unflinchingly honest account of his self-destructive personal decay in his early 30s, and his redemption throug writing. Greg Baxter's top 10 memento mori 2010-07-21T11:15:00Z

Many readers may feel removed from the stories he tells in the memoir, he said, seeing them as the lot of people living in authoritarian countries. A Poet Captures the Terror of Life in an Authoritarian State 2023-08-01T04:00:00Z

In the memoir, she recounted the death of her husband in a railway accident that also left her badly injured. Nina Bawden, Author of ‘Carrie’s War,’ Dies at 87 2012-08-23T04:57:28Z

September brought us Daniel Mendelsohn’s “An Odyssey,” his memoir of teaching this poem about fathers and sons to a class at Bard College that included his own father. A Version of Homer That Dares to Match Him Line for Line 2017-12-05T05:00:00Z

The former foreign secretary and lord chancellor is at pains to tell his readers that his memoirs were not ghosted. Best biographies of 2012 2012-11-29T17:00:01Z

Yet another knock against patriarchy: It makes memoirs boring. In ‘Year of Yes,’ Shonda Rhimes shares tips from her own enlightenment 2015-11-03T05:00:00Z

It lifts the book above mere advocacy or even memoir and places it in the realm of stoic philosophy. The Stoic Philosopher of the Lockup 2019-04-04T04:00:00Z

When I work with other narrative nonfiction writers, or just writers in general who are thinking about memoir, write it first before trying to get it published maybe, because it took me so many years. "My dad had a secret rage problem that only we could see": Author Erin Hosier on "Don't Let Me Down" 2019-02-09T05:00:00Z

Now she is the author of a brand new memoir, "The Upside of Being Down, How Mental Health Struggles Led to My Greatest Successes in Work and Life." "Being busy all the time is not healthy": Ban.do founder wants to change the narrative about success 2020-04-28T04:00:00Z

“Low Down” stumbles into the pitfalls of both addiction narratives and observer-style autobiography, even if Ms. Albany’s memoir suggests even rougher times. ‘Low Down,’ on Growing Up With Joe Albany 2014-10-23T04:00:00Z

Rogers chronicled the experience in a memoir published last year, "Coming Out to Play," which he discussed with Times columnist Chris Erskine on Sunday at the Los Angeles Times Festival of Books. Festival of Books: How soccer's Robbie Rogers beat fear to pen 'Coming Out' 2015-04-19T04:00:00Z

In 1986 she published a memoir, “One More Time,” about her upbringing in Los Angeles by her grandmother while her parents struggled with alcoholism. Carol Burnett Looks Back in Her Memoir ?This Time Together? 2010-03-30T22:43:00Z

His first of many visits to a psychotherapist is the opening scene in the memoir he published in 2005, “Kiss Me Like a Stranger: My Search for Love and Art.” Gene Wilder Dies at 83; Star of ‘Willy Wonka’ and ‘Young Frankenstein’ 2016-08-29T04:00:00Z

As happens often in this memoir, the reader is left to guess when exactly an event occurs, as if factual details are secondary to the story being told. She Lost Her Father, Her Health and All She Held Dear. At Least She Found Perspective. 2018-10-12T04:00:00Z

Their relationship ended in 1974 but they remained in touch and he gave an interview for her 2006 memoir, Arnold and Me: In the Shadow of the Austrian Oak. He'll be back: why old age can't keep Arnold Schwarzenegger down 2017-07-29T04:00:00Z

The book followed a 2006 memoir with the less romantic title, Red Carpets and Other Banana Skins. The importance of being Oscar: how Rupert Everett found a cause 2018-06-10T04:00:00Z

That is Ingmar Bergman, in his memoir “The Magic Lantern,” rhapsodizing on his “secret love,” the island of Faro in the Baltic Sea. ‘Bergman Island’ Review: Love Among the Cinephiles 2021-10-14T04:00:00Z

Yet Harry does not get to perform his memoir. Stories We Tell – review 2013-06-27T14:29:01Z

A memoir might only focus on a small portion of a life, as opposed to an autobiography, which covers an entire life. The anticipation around Prince Harry's "Spare," from its ghostwriter to the memoir genre 2022-11-01T04:00:00Z

The magazine ended up reviewing her memoir, giving it a mixed notice that Amazon editors aw. Amazon joins with authors, cuts out publishers 2011-10-18T17:08:24Z

That kind of popping off might cost a candidate votes, but it will more likely sell copies of Frank’s new memoir, “Frank: A Life in Politics from the Great Society to Same-Sex Marriage.” Barney Frank: ‘People almost forgot that I was gay, and I kept reminding them’ 2015-03-27T04:00:00Z

It’s too much for a literary memoir, just enough for a lavish ghost story. “My Brilliant Friend,” Reviewed: A Prada Ad for Working-Class Gloom, but with Shades of Humble Tenderness 2018-11-15T05:00:00Z

Jay so loved this anecdote that “You Remember That?” became the working title of the memoir he never finished. The Curious, Astounding Collection of the Magician Ricky Jay 2021-10-19T04:00:00Z

In his 1982 memoir “Motel Chronicles,” Shepard wrote about the sort of intimate surveillance that goes on in this novel. In His Final Fiction, Sam Shepard Chases Familiar Themes 2017-12-06T05:00:00Z

The novel — which its publisher describes as autobiographical, though not as memoir — takes the form of a diary or journal. Love, Icelandically: On Oddny Eir's novel 'Land of Love and Ruins' 2016-10-27T04:00:00Z

“I figured somebody had the jukebox playing our records,” he recalled in his 2009 memoir, “Man of Constant Sorrow,” written with Eddie Dean. Ralph Stanley, bluegrass master, dies at 89 2016-06-23T04:00:00Z

"Coming Out to Play," written with Eric Marcus, is Rogers' memoir about the journey he took and the courage he found to finally share his genuine identity. Galaxy's Robbie Rogers on life after 'Coming Out to Play' 2014-11-30T05:00:00Z

Ernaux writes about this image and its complicated smile in her exquisite 2008 memoir “The Years,” which works as a companion piece to “The Super 8 Years.” ‘The Super 8 Years’ Review: Annie Ernaux’s Celluloid Souvenirs 2022-12-15T05:00:00Z

In the 1990s, Collins took up the pen like her younger sister, writing a series of memoirs, novels and glamour guides. Joan Collins: Profile 2014-12-30T05:00:00Z

Just in time for shorter, drearier days, a new crop of breezy celebrity memoirs has arrived from a trio of formidable women. Review | Phoebe Robinson, Ellie Kemper and Busy Philipps are here to brighten your days 2018-10-11T04:00:00Z

“It seemed inconceivable to most of us that any woman could do that to her children,” Mary Clark wrote in her memoir. Bestselling author Mary Higgins Clark dead at age 92 2020-01-31T05:00:00Z

But in memoir, there’s an implicit agreement between writer and reader that the writer isn’t going to gloss over transgressions and sugarcoat shortcomings. Reese Witherspoon Isn't Nice and Wholesome in "Wild," and That’s What Makes it Great 2014-12-05T05:00:00Z

I like to keep emotion on the inside, and yet I'm supposed to write a memoir. “They don't realize how deeply racial bias permeates”: Central Park birder on where liberals fail 2023-07-19T04:00:00Z

O’Dell’s memoir of his time with the Fab Four came out in 2003 and was called “At the Apple’s Core: The Beatles from the Inside.” Denis O’Dell, worked on Beatles films, dies in Spain at 98 2021-12-31T05:00:00Z

Ina Garten is answering the prayers of fans everywhere and releasing a memoir, presumably to focus on her rise to foodie fame. Ina Garten to release memoir: 3 questions we want answered 2019-10-06T04:00:00Z

The primary source of the legend, Solomon Volkov’s purported Shostakovich memoir “Testimony,” which is quoted on the CD’s back cover, is now considered a literary fraud by many scholars. CD reviews: Two lyrical recordings of classic 20th-century scores 2015-10-08T04:00:00Z

"Caged Bird" is among the most widely read and widely taught memoirs of the past half-century, memorably documenting her rise from the rural, segregated South to international fame. Maya Angelou to receive honorary book award 2013-09-05T13:17:17Z

He’s been working on a memoir titled “Bending Toward Justice,” a reference to the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. quote: “The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice.” A generation of LGBTQ advocates hopes the clock isn’t ticking backward 2022-05-20T04:00:00Z

“When I started getting a lot of guest-star roles, I’d make postcards and send them to casting directors to alert them,” he writes in his new memoir. ‘Breaking Bad’ star Bryan Cranston was ‘always hustling’ as a young actor 2016-09-28T04:00:00Z

But it’s mainly the memoir of Venter Lowood, whose entire life has been defined by the Epiphany Machine. Best new science fiction for summer 2017-07-07T04:00:00Z

The idea of excellence is a wire, sometimes barbed, often electrified, strung through nearly every page of Kiese Laymon’s memoir, “Heavy.” When Excellence Is a Survival Strategy 2018-11-13T05:00:00Z

Ms. Emin grew up in the English seaside town of Margate, “where there was nothing to do but blend in with the general decay,” she wrote in her 2005 memoir, “Strangeland.” Tracey Emin and Edvard Munch, Leaning Into Pain 2020-12-03T05:00:00Z

Obama’s carefulness extends to parts of her memoir. In revealing new memoir, Michelle Obama candidly shares her story 2018-11-08T05:00:00Z

The historical society is finding the names in inventories, wills, correspondence, family Bibles and memoirs, among other paperwork. Antiques: Database of Viginia Slave Names Goes Online 2011-09-08T20:55:45Z

In his "Chronicles: Volume One" memoir, Dylan recalled that Vee "had a metallic, edgy tone to his voice and it was as musical as a silver bell." Bobby Vee Has Died 2016-10-24T04:00:00Z

In recent years, Ms. Gore had been working on a memoir and a Broadway show based on her life. Lesley Gore, Teenage Voice of Heartbreak, Dies at 68 2015-02-16T05:00:00Z

Ms. Mock, 35, is known for her best-selling memoir “Redefining Realness,” a harrowing account of her childhood as a transgender girl. Ryan Murphy and Janet Mock on ‘Pose,’ Diversity and Netflix 2018-05-23T04:00:00Z

Last week, in the car on the way to the airport, I caught an interview on NPR with Sen. Elizabeth Warren about her new memoir, “A Fighting Chance.” Insidious political cliché alert: Stop saying it’s all about the kids 2014-04-21T22:59:00Z

Recovered from a major spell of suicidal depression, she returns home on a mission: to show her parents the manuscript of her new memoir. ‘Other Desert Cities’: A family’s personal, and political, pain 2013-06-07T22:37:00Z

All are essentially one-hit wonders, and some readers may long for Janowitz to break out of this particular club with her new memoir. Tama Janowitz memoir 'Scream' is strangely lacking; Elizabeth Hand reviews 2016-08-25T04:00:00Z

Julian Barnes, in his memoir Nothing to Be Frightened Of, relates his admission to his friend "R" that he thinks a great deal about death. Redmond O'Hanlon: A life in books 2011-03-28T06:59:01Z

Read this memoir and you should never need to ask again why Labour gives the benefit of the doubt to single-parent families and recipients of disability benefit. This Boy: A Memoir of a Childhood by Alan Johnson – review 2013-05-02T13:00:01Z

In the hands of the poet and critic Hanif Abdurraqib, experiences of music become memoirs, of the host and of his guests. New Podcasts Worth Checking Out 2021-01-27T05:00:00Z

“I adore William James and Henry James,” says the author Kathryn Schulz, whose latest book is the memoir “Lost & Found” — “but did I also read E. L. James back in 2011? You bet.” Kathryn Schulz Doesn’t Count Any Reading Pleasures as Guilty 2021-12-30T05:00:00Z

Ms. Newman writes: “Alone Together” is a private memoir of a public man, and a very whitewashed one. ArtsBeat: Book Review Podcast: Life With J. Paul Getty 2013-08-30T16:55:15Z

In The Ragman’s Son, one of Douglas’s several beautifully written memoirs, he recounts that Wayne attended a screening of Lust for Life, Douglas’s heartfelt 1956 biopic of Vincent van Gogh, and was horrified. Kirk Douglas: ‘I never thought I’d live to 100. That’s shocked me’ 2017-02-12T05:00:00Z

Yet with this, her first play, Helm insists on staging her own "fictionalised memoir" of life with Jonathan Powell, Tony Blair's chief of staff, during those hectic early months of 2003. What to say about ... Sarah Helm's Loyalty 2011-07-22T13:35:50Z

Even casual readers of celebrity news have probably seen the headlines over the last few weeks as excerpts from pop star-turned-fashion mogul Jessica Simpson’s new memoir, “Open Book,” leaked to the Internet: Review | The juicy details of Jessica Simpson’s memoir are only part of her misunderstood story 2020-02-11T05:00:00Z

They reunited in 2014 to play mother and daughter in “Wild,” a film based on Cheryl Strayed’s memoir that garnered them both Oscar nominations. Reese Witherspoon and Laura Dern, Wildly Close 2017-03-24T04:00:00Z

He read “Lonely Boy,” as well as “Defying Gravity: Jordan’s Story,” a memoir from Jordan Mooney, a friend of the band who is played in the show by Maisie Williams. Becoming Johnny Rotten, When John Lydon Would Rather You Didn’t 2022-05-31T04:00:00Z

Then she published a best-selling memoir, “Courage to Soar,” went on her first date, attended the Golden Globe Awards and celebrated her 20th birthday. It’s been eight months since the Rio Olympics, but Simone Biles is still flying high 2017-04-28T04:00:00Z

In the memoir “Men We Reaped,” Ward traces the lives and early deaths of five young Mississippi men, including her brother, Joshua. MacArthur winner Jesmyn Ward writes socially conscious works set in the South 2017-10-10T04:00:00Z

For one’s memoir, perhaps, but not for Donleavy’s, I think, as I watch him grow smaller in the side-view mirror of my car. A Visit to Donleavyland, Sixty Years After “The Ginger Man” 2015-06-11T04:00:00Z

The ten titles on the longlist, originally written in ten different languages, include seven novels, two memoirs, and a collection of essays. The 2019 National Book Awards Longlist: Translated Literature 2019-09-17T04:00:00Z

When Alexandra Styron, the youngest of the novelist William Styron’s four children, was growing up, she writes in her new memoir, there was one inviolate rule in the house: “Don’t ask Daddy about his work.” Books of The Times: William Styron, in a Daughter?s Words 2011-04-19T18:14:34Z

Judy Gold is a writer and stand-up comic whose new staged memoir, “The Judy Show: My Life as a Sitcom,” continues through Sept. ArtsBeat: An Appraisal: Sherwood Schwartz's Modern Families 2011-07-13T19:00:02Z

Though I had read the memoirs individually and sometimes more than once, I could not put that entire life down. In a Commanding Literary Voice, Maya Angelou Sang Out to the World 2014-05-28T04:00:00Z

“Beautiful Ruins” also includes wittily wrought excerpts from its various characters’ writings, among them a novel, a memoir, a play and a movie pitch. Books of The Times: ‘Beautiful Ruins’ by Jess Walter 2012-06-07T19:21:16Z

They helped inspire Kim Brooks' 2018 parenting memoir "Small Animals," after responses to a Salon story about the day she left her son in the car exploded in the comments. I'm reading the comments again, after swearing them off 7 years ago 2019-03-27T04:00:00Z

He plans an extended stay there to start writing his White House memoir, according to a person familiar with his plans who asked for anonymity to discuss them. Two months out of office, Barack Obama is having a post-presidency like no other 2017-03-24T04:00:00Z

“The mid-’70s in Austin were the busiest, the craziest, the most vivid and intense and productive period of my life,” Mr. Walker wrote in his memoir. Jerry Jeff Walker, Who Wrote and Sang ‘Mr. Bojangles,’ Dies at 78 2020-10-24T04:00:00Z

The Iowa Republican, expected to face a competitive race for reelection this fall, is calling her memoir “Daughter of the Heartland: My Ode to the Country That Raised Me.” Memoir by Sen. Joni Ernst of Iowa coming out in May 2020-01-27T05:00:00Z

And sure, a memoir need not be a storage container for every family skeleton, but relevant narration — heartbreaking or otherwise — is, I’d argue, a big chunk of a writer’s basic job description. When Your Family Becomes a Noah’s Ark-Style Experiment With Race 2023-03-28T04:00:00Z

These are celebrity memoirs, written by people who became authors through the sheer force of their charisma. New & Noteworthy Audiobooks, From Betsey Johnson to Pot in San Francisco 2020-04-21T04:00:00Z

“The Bright Hour,” Nina Riggs’s memoir of her final years as she faced breast cancer at age 39, was published posthumously, in 2017, to critical acclaim and commercial success. Two dying memoirists wrote bestsellers about their final days. Then their spouses fell in love. 2018-01-03T05:00:00Z

ORANGE, Va. — Jeannette Walls could have had a life of leisure after the big success of her 2005 memoir, “The Glass Castle,” but she has too much energy for that. The Many Lives of Jeannette Walls 2023-03-18T04:00:00Z

The memoir on which the film is based has seen a similar boost, jumping more than 300 places in Amazon.com's chart. Slave experiences post-Oscar boost 2014-03-04T10:38:49Z

Cartoonist, author of the graphic memoir “Fun Home” ‘My First Gay Bar’: Rachel Maddow, Andy Cohen and Others Share Their Coming-Out Stories 2016-06-22T04:00:00Z

With “Pedro’s Theory,” Gonsalez has created a memoir that is at once a collection of essays about his life and also a kaleidoscopic investigation of the things America has tried to promise him. Three Memoirs About the Messiness of Life and Self-Definition 2021-02-18T05:00:00Z

This strikes me as an odd, evasive strategy for uncovering much about your father; it’s certainly a poor strategy for composing a consistently interesting memoir. Books of The Times: In ‘The Scientists,’ Marco Roth Seeks Truth About His Family 2012-09-18T14:03:58Z

The pseudonymous ex-Navy-SEAL is the author of No Easy Day: The Firsthand Account of the Mission That Killed Osama Bin Laden, a forthcoming memoir of, well, just what it sounds like. The Navy SEAL Tell-All: Anonymous Osama bin Laden Memoir Slated for Sept. 11 2012-08-23T19:00:21Z

Huston's memoir will also deal with her family's celluloid legacy. Anjelica Huston to write memoir 2011-03-02T14:29:38Z