Memoir

Two Cents Plain

One For The Table | Posted 07.17.2008 | Life

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One For The Table

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.

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A Tribute to Irish Writer Nuala O'Faolain

Robyn Blumner | Posted 06.11.2008 | Entertainment

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Robyn Blumner

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.

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In Defense of James Frey and Memoir

Lisa Dale Norton | Posted 05.30.2008 | Entertainment

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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.

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Dum Dum Bullets Swaddled in Angora

Kevin Morris and Glenn Altschuler | Posted 05.27.2008 | Media

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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.

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Getting Back Home: An Update

Carol Hoenig | Posted 05.27.2008 | Life

Read More: Friendship, Housing Market, Divorce, Serendipity, Country Woman, Obituary, Memoir, Mom, Rural, Dogs, Scout, Shiloh, Life News
Carol Hoenig

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,...

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Lie To Me

Heather McElhatton | Posted 03.24.2008 | Entertainment

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Heather McElhatton

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.

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The 23/6 Fake Memoir-o-Tron

236.com | Posted 03.07.2008 | Media

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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...

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Truth Matters

Evan Handler | Posted 03.06.2008 | Entertainment

Read More: Literature, Memoir, Margaret Seltzer, Evan Handler, James Frey, Fiction, Love and Consequences, Entertainment News
Evan Handler

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.

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The Dangers of Writing Fiction

Jennie Nash | Posted 01.29.2008 | Life

Read More: Memoir, Creativity, Writing Tips, Writing, The Arts, Fiction, Life News
Jennie Nash

People who are not engaged daily in conscious creative acts, like to believe that creativity is something that strikes like lightening from God.

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Can We Talk About Susan Sontag's Death and Then Maybe Our Own?

Elizabeth Benedict | Posted 01.14.2008 | Media

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Elizabeth Benedict

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.

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Guacamole!

Amy Ephron | Posted 12.18.2007 | Life

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Amy Ephron

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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