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In Margate, New Jersey, there is an ice cream shop that time forgot. It looks just the same today as it did in 1979, when I had my fifth birthday party there.
In Margate, New Jersey, there is an ice cream shop that time forgot. It looks just the same today as it did in 1979, when I had my fifth birthday party there.
Robyn Blumner | Posted 06.11.2008 | Entertainment
There are a number of modern authors whose facility with the written word and ability to plumb the human experience leave me in awe. But if you asked me whose work touched me most, it would be O'Faolain's.
Lisa Dale Norton | Posted 05.30.2008 | Entertainment
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.
Kevin Morris and Glenn Altschuler | Posted 05.27.2008 | Media
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.
Carol Hoenig | Posted 05.27.2008 | Life
Several months ago, I wrote here about the possibility of my being able to buy back the home that I had to sell due to a divorce agreement. Presently,...
Heather McElhatton | Posted 03.24.2008 | Entertainment
People who get their moral turpitudes in a bunch over "untrue" memoirs are living in some alternate fairy tale land where there is only one truth and one truth only.
236.com | Posted 03.07.2008 | Media
It was revealed this week that the critically acclaimed memoir "Love and Consequences," the story of a young mixed-race girl who grew up in poverty un...
Evan Handler | Posted 03.06.2008 | Entertainment
No matter how gorgeously rendered, fiction can always be dismissed as invention. The truth is the truth, and there is nothing more powerful to a mind seeking inspiration than an already confirmed account.
Jennie Nash | Posted 01.29.2008 | Life
People who are not engaged daily in conscious creative acts, like to believe that creativity is something that strikes like lightening from God.
Elizabeth Benedict | Posted 01.14.2008 | Media
Through her son's bold, unflinching account of her refusal to accept her "extinction," Sontag may help us begin public and private conversations about dying that are long overdue.
Amy Ephron | Posted 12.18.2007 | Life
She served it in a special bowl that rested on a black ridged plate which was filled with ruffled potato chips at parties and on tv nights, usually with a lit Kent cigarette in the ash tray.
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One For The Table | Posted 07.17.2008 | Life