Memoir

Fragments of A Life

Nancy Sharp | Posted 05.31.2012

Read More: May, Twins, Summer, Memoir, Spring, Motherhood, Changing Seasons, Self-Reflection, Fragments, Parents News
Nancy Sharp

Every May, the buzz of adult, kid, family and professional activities wipes me out. So much so that I tend to feel rather porous, as if my brain has turned to Swiss cheese.

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How a Teenage Boy Taught Me to Be a Mother

JJ Keith | Posted 05.29.2012

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JJ Keith

For the first year of my daughter's life, everything was big: big love, big frustration, big anxiety, big mood swings, big me. Not since I was a teen had I been so transfixed by my own now-shriveled navel.

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Too Sexy For My Shirt

Ethlie Ann Vare | Posted 05.29.2012

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Ethlie Ann Vare

I am not a member of the Mile High Club, but I once made a crash-landing because I was making out with the man who was supposed to be manning the controls -- not man-handling the passenger.

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Your Start-up Life: Best Business Books to Groom Your Team

Rana Florida | Posted 05.24.2012

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Rana Florida

Insights about business can be gleaned from almost any good book -- whether it's a memoir by a professional athlete or a page-turning account of the ups and downs of a frenetic political campaign.

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Interview With Rosecrans Baldwin, Author of Paris, I Love You but You're Bringing Me Down

Teddy Wayne | Posted 05.23.2012

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Teddy Wayne

I spoke with Baldwin about unsung food choice in the City of Light, the machismo of French men and whether he will soon be victim of a lawsuit by a certain band who might take issue with his book's title.

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Martin Sheen And Emilio Estevez Memoir Explores Father-Son Relationship

AP | DOUGLASS K. DANIEL | Posted 05.22.2012

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-- "Along the Way: The Journey of a Father and Son" (Free Press), by Martin Sheen and Emilio Estevez with Hope Edelman: First see their movie, then r...

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WATCH: Hilarious Book Trailer Features Dick Cavett And Malcolm Gladwell

Posted 05.17.2012

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Comedian and musician Dave Hill has written a memoir. Aside from comedy and music, he shares stories on girlfriends, hockey and "Misguided Attempts at...

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The Vulnerable Heart of Machismo

Shawn Lawrence Otto | Posted 05.16.2012

Read More: Bank Robbery, Memoir, Quebec, British Columbia, Coming of Age, Crime, Canada, Deni Bechard, Cures for Hunger, Book Reviews, Books News
Shawn Lawrence Otto

In men there is something that is not well understood or accepted by the more gentle aspects of modern society. Few writers have captured the full-bodied compulsive pull of it as well as Deni Béchard does in Cures for Hunger.

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On Mothers in Memoirs

Nicki Richesin | Posted 05.15.2012

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Nicki Richesin

One hopes by writing their fierce and evocative memoirs, they can keep their mothers' ghosts at bay.

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Who Says Our Mothers Don't Shape Our Lives and Values?

Jerry Lanson | Posted 05.08.2012

Read More: Teacher Appreciation, Memoir, Mother's Day, Mothers, Remembrance, Memories, Mother's Day 2012, Parents News
Jerry Lanson

Not that I always appreciated my mother's -- shall we say -- enthusiasm. But, as Mother's Day approaches, I look back at her life and influence with a smile and a touch of longing.

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Running With Scissors Author Augusten Burroughs on Why He Felt Self-Conscious Writing His New Self-Help Book

Vanity Fair | Posted 05.08.2012

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Vanity Fair

The controversial memoirist Augusten Burroughs has returned with a new self-help book entitled This Is How. Here, VF Daily chats with the author about the recent breakup that inspired the book.

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Michelangelo Signorile

Iconic Transgender Writer Discusses Life In And Exit From The Church Of Scientology

HuffingtonPost.com | Michelangelo Signorile | Posted 05.05.2012

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The groundbreaking transgender writer, activist and performance artist Kate Bornstein, speaking about her experiences in the Church of Scientology in ...

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Why I Wrote My First Memoir, Along the Way, With a Guy Named Martin Sheen

Emilio Estevez | Posted 05.04.2012

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Emilio Estevez

What could you possibly glean from a book about two men who've been in the public eye for over fifty years, where everything there is to know about them can be uncovered by the click of keyboard? Well, it turns out, plenty.

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M is for the Many Things...

Ethlie Ann Vare | Posted 05.03.2012

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Ethlie Ann Vare

My mother looked like Grace Kelly in her prime and acted like Shirley MacLaine in Terms of Endearment

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Author: How A Burst Blood Vessel Changed My Looks And My Attitude

Louise Krug | Posted 04.30.2012

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Louise Krug

The feeling of beauty has nothing to do with perfection. It is about self-respect. It is about caring for oneself. I try to be a little less careless now.

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6 Pieces of Advice to my Younger Self: an INXS Suicide Blonde

Shannon Bradley-Colleary | Posted 04.18.2012

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Shannon Bradley-Colleary

Throwing your expensive bachelors degree in journalism out the window to pursue acting despite everyone's doubts will be the best thing that ever happened to you.

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How to Get a Book Deal: Tiger Mom, Diet Mom and Me

Julie Gerstenblatt | Posted 04.17.2012

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Julie Gerstenblatt

In the spirit of the "damned if you do/damned if you don't" memoir, I am determined to find my inner Tiger Mom/Diet Mom and expose her to the world.

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Write What You Know? Not Always.

Scott Alexander Hess | Posted 04.10.2012

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Scott Alexander Hess

Over time, my writing has become less and less about me. What I have discovered is that the further I move from myself, the richer my writing has become.

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From Infertility to Asia: One Woman's Journey to Conceive

Layla Revis | Posted 04.10.2012

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Layla Revis

Sarah Ivens documented her journey for herself and others searching to conceive in Amerikarma: Good Things Happen to Those Who Can't Wait: one part travel memoir, one part healing.

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Sarah Tressler: Marketing Genius or One Lucky Stripper?

Sheila Hageman | Posted 04.09.2012

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Sheila Hageman

did she have something to do with her own outing? Was working as a society page journalist all a ruse to create controversy in an otherwise has-been profession of stripping?

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My Brain Not on Drugs

Ethlie Ann Vare | Posted 05.29.2012

Read More: Addiction, Memoir, Sobriety, Love Addiction, 12 Steps, Aa, Sex Addiction, Drug Addiction, Addictive Personalities, Addiction Recovery, Addiction and Recovery, Addictive Personality, Healthy Living News
Ethlie Ann Vare

What I have discovered over 24 years is that you don't need substances to alter the mind. As an addict, you can get addicted to pretty much anything.

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Gavin McInnes' How to Piss in Public

Toni Nagy | Posted 05.28.2012

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Toni Nagy

Gavin McInnes's memoir How To Piss in Public is one that I highly recommend. It's not only insanely hilarious in a mental hospital sort of way but it's also so outlandishly offensive that you get tricked into thinking it is totally politically correct.

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A Return to Childhood: A Review of How the Heather Looks by Joan Bodger

Nicki Richesin | Posted 05.27.2012

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Nicki Richesin

How The Heather Looks by Joan Bodger delivers us from our daily routine to the magical world of English children's literature.

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Two Authors Talk Life, Art and Love

Kergan Edwards-Stout | Posted 05.21.2012

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Kergan Edwards-Stout

There were beautiful men everywhere, and I wanted so much to belong, but I always felt as if I were on the outside, looking in...

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Toni Morrison Cancels Plans To Write Memoir

AP | Posted 03.15.2012

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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 int...

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