Autobiography

So You're Thinking of Converting From Anglican to Catholic

Sophie Pollitt-Cohen | Posted 10.29.2009 | Comedy


Sophie Pollitt-Cohen

In converting to Catholicism, you are really just switching over your "files" (ideas/customs/most profound expressions of faith) to your "Mac" (Catholic) "hard drive" (brain/immortal soul).

What If We Indicted Léon Blum?

Bernard-Henri Lévy | Posted 10.13.2009 | World


Bernard-Henri Lévy

Writers who believed they were teaching us about a particular temptation, iniquity, perversion, or depravity: think twice, because they should know they will be thrown to the lions in public opinion.

In Defense of James Frey and Memoir

Lisa Dale Norton | Posted 06.07.2008 | Entertainment


Lisa Dale Norton

The function of a memoir is to make a truth about a life lived that resonates in the bones of the writer and sends out shock waves of recognition to readers.

Dum Dum Bullets Swaddled in Angora

Kevin Morris and Glenn Altschuler | Posted 06.04.2008 | Media


Kevin Morris and Glenn Altschuler

The accomplished Barbara Walters is not that different from the beleaguered little girl: a victim and a beneficiary of the glitz and glamour of showbiz.

Fmr Mexican President Fox Recounts Bush As "The Cockiest Guy Ever" In Autobiography

Washington Whispers | Posted 03.28.2008 | Media


At the White House, the president has got to be muttering "some friend" when he pores over the new autobio from his old buddy Vicente Fox, Mexico's fo...