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Sarah Palin Snags Ziggy Honors

Gerald Sindell | Posted 11.25.2009 | Books

Read More: Egomaniac, Going Rogue, Carnivores, Sarah Palin, Sarah Palin Going Rogue, Writing, Palin, Going Rogue Reviews, Sigmund Freud, Frank Rich, Costco, Memoir, Books News

Maybe there was something about Ms. Palin that everyone had missed. Maybe the secret of her attraction would finally, suddenly, become dazzlingly clear to me.

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My Father's Paradise: A Memoir About a Lost Jewish World

Alex Remington | Posted 11.18.2009 | Books

Read More: Judaism, Aramaic, My Father's Paradise, Book Reviews, Ariel Sabar, Memoir, Kurdistan, Kurdish Jewry, Israel, Kurdish Jews, Books News

I recently read Ariel Sabar's memoir My Father's Paradise: A Son's Search for His Jewish Past in Kurdish Iraq, which was published last year. It begi...

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From Randy To Rand: The New Political Fiction(s)

John Jeter | Posted 11.16.2009 | Books

Read More: Politics, Mark Sanford, Reinhold Niebuhr, Ayn Rand, Fiction, Memoir, Jenny Sanford, Non-Fiction, Sarah Palin, Newsweek, Books News

Governor Mark Sanford -- the man who has confused the Appalachian Trail with Argentina and still holds public office writes about the Objectivist Philosopher.

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Mary Karr Traded Alcohol For Jesus: 'Talking About This Is Like Doing Card Tricks On The Radio'

Jesse Kornbluth | Posted 11.14.2009 | Books

Read More: Memoir, Mary Karr, Catholicism, Drinking, Cherry, Lit, Authors, The Liar's Club, Mary Karr Lit, New Mary Karr, Author Interview, Mary Karr Interview, Tobias Wolff, Books News

For a writer of memoirs, Mary Karr has had a charmed life. That is, a lot has happened, almost all of it colorful, much of it painful.

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Nathan Rabin's "The Big Rewind" Needed a Little Re-Edit

Alex Remington | Posted 11.13.2009 | Books

Read More: Nathan Rabin, The Big Rewind, Av Club, The Onion, Books, Onion AV Club, Book Reviews, Authors, Pop Culture, Reviews, Memoir, Books News

Emotional honesty is a lot harder to take seriouslywhen you constantly undercut it by using the same hoary one-liners and jokes from Mr. Show.

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My Review of Sarah Palin's New Book Going Rogue Without Actually Having Read It

Beth Armogida | Posted 11.11.2009 | Comedy

Read More: Book Reviews, Alaska Governor Sarah Palin, Memoir, John McCain, Sarah Palin Memoir, Book Review, Going Rogue, Sarah Palin, Comedy News

If anything, Going Rogue shows how a woman from a small town in Alaska can go from burning books to writing them.

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Mary Karr Interview: "Lit" Part II

Huffington Post | Steve Ross | Posted 11.11.2009 | Books

Read More: Writing Memoir, New Books, Mary Karr Lit, Bestsellers, Catholicism, Cherry, Lit, Writers, Melville, Interview, Writing, Authors, The Liar's Club, Mary Karr Memoir, Author Interviews, Books, Mary Karr, Mary Karr Interview, Memoir, Books News

The following is a continuation of a Huffington Post interview with author Mary Karr on her new memoir, "Lit." You can read the first part here. Hu...

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Mary Karr Speaks To HuffPost Books About Her New Memoir "Lit"

The Huffington Post | Steve Ross | Posted 11.10.2009 | Books

Read More: Cherry, Writing Memoir, Books, Writing, Author Interview, New Books, Mary Karr Lit, Lit, Interview, Bestsellers, Authors, The Liar's Club, Memoir, Mary Karr, Mary Karr Interview, Books News

The brouhaha that flared last week when "Publishers Weekly" announced its list of Top Ten Books of the Year, a list that garnered probably unwanted bu...

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Andre Agassi's "Open": Meth, Bitterness, And Bad Hair (VIDEO)

The Huffington Post | Jessie Kunhardt | Posted 11.09.2009 | Books

Andre Agassi's new memoir, Open, out today, has been causing a stir because of major revelations in the book -- that Agassi used crystal meth regular...

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Remembering Kristallnacht in Berlin: The Story of Hans Riess

Stefan Sirucek | Posted 11.09.2009 | Politics

Read More: Sachsenhausen, Jews, Nazi Germany, Hans Riess, Nazi, Holocaust, November 9, Sa, Joseph Goebbels, Crystal Night, Eyewitness, Synagogue, Kristallnacht, Germany, Charlottenburg, Jewish, Memoir, Brownshirts, Adolf Hitler, Night of Broken Glass, Kindertransport, Berlin, Nov 9th, Ss, Gestapo, Politics News

The reason November 9 -- the day the Berlin Wall fell -- is not a national holiday in Germany, is that it also marks a much darker anniversary: Kristallnacht, the so-called "Night of Broken Glass."

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This Writer's Life: Why Write Memoir When Fiction is So Much More Respectable?

Rebecca Walker | Posted 11.19.2009 | Books

Read More: Irene Vilar, Writers, Writing Memoir, James Frey, Writing, Authors, Alice Walker, Books, Memoir, Fiction, Memoirists, Books News

I love the form and feel it is mine the way others feel poetry or the short story is theirs, but memoir is still seen as the first cousin of the tabloid, is it not?

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The Writer-in-Chief

Steve Ross | Posted 11.03.2009 | Books

Read More: Political Writers, Book Publishing, Books, Barnes and Noble, Union Square, Random House, Barack Obama, Bestsellers, Nobel Prize, Obama Books, One Year Later, Audacity of Hope, Dreams From My Father, Memoir, 2008 Campaign, Books News

Dreams from My Father had received a few impressive blurbs and favorable reviews, but had sold only a few thousand copies, so had been out of print for years.

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Book Review Round-Up

Posted 11.02.2009 | Books

Read More: Anne Rice, Vollman, Books, Writing, Eoin Colfer, Douglas Adams, Harold Evans, New Books, Tobias Hill, Book Review, Daniel Goldhagen, Book Reviews, Lee Eisenberg, Memoir, Jason Epstein, Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy, Books News

Here it is, your weekly book review round-up: Eating, Jason Epstein The New York Times The book is delicious, in its minimalist, essayistic way. But...

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Nursing a Memoir to Publication: Finding a Niche, Defining a Life

Monroe Price | Posted 11.23.2009 | Books

Read More: Yale University, Memoir, Vienna, Jewish, Yale, Holocaust, Refugees, Books News

When I wrote this book, Objects of Remembrance: A Memoir of American Opportunities and Viennese Dreams, there was a question of genre: Was this a Holocaust or refugee book?

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Celebrity Memoir 101

Jason Pinter | Posted 10.26.2009 | Books

Read More: Literary Agents, Memoir, Book Publishing, Huffpost Books, Books, Parody, Celebrities, Books News

A new celebrity memor in the bestselling tradition of Paris Hilton, Bret Michaels, Jodie Sweetin, Jerry O'Connell, Tori Spelling, Dustin Diamond, Maureen McCormick and David Hasselhoff.

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I'm In Sales

Amy Dickinson | Posted 10.23.2009 | Books

Read More: Ann Landers, Writers, Barbara Walters, Writing, Authors, Book Tours, Selling Books, Bookselling, The View, Books, Whoopi Goldberg, Bestsellers, Memoir, Writing Books, Books News

What I learned during my book tour is that I was dying to have people actually read my book, and if they were going to read it, I was first going to have to sell it to them.

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You Had to Be There: The Role of Memory in Memoir

Liz Welch | Posted 10.20.2009 | Books

Read More: Cancer, Writers, Writing Memoir, Authors, Sisters, Parents, Books, Memoir, Books News

I had been trying to write my story for several years, haunted by one friend's comment. "Great," he had said to me, drinking a cup of coffee in my kitchen, "another memoir about a mother who dies from cancer."

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What We Can Learn From Animals

Rita Mae Brown | Posted 10.16.2009 | Books

Read More: Animal Magnetism, Cats, Books, Animals, Rita Mae Brown Memoir, Memoir, Animal Books, Dogs, Books News

Out of this happy life lived with animals, I have learned some important animal facts. You may have realized them also and your own affection for creatures has shot up accordingly.

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More Ways to Be Happy, or, Why There's No Need for Hand-wringing

Celeste Ng | Posted 10.16.2009 | Books

Read More: Memoir, Oprah Winfrey, Twittering, Twitter, Kindle, Gay Marriage, Twitterfiction, Gay Marriage Threatens, Ereaders, Books News

If our attention spans are really getting shorter, why are novels so much easier to sell? And if people really want longer works, how do we explain the explosion of shorter and shorter fiction?

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What If We Indicted Léon Blum?

Bernard-Henri Lévy | Posted 10.13.2009 | World

Read More: Memoir, Frederic Mitterrand, Leon Blum, Autobiography, Roman Polanski, World News

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.

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Sully's New Book: Highest Duty

USA Today | Marco R. della Cava | Posted 10.13.2009 | Books

Read More: Authors, Sully Memoir, Books, Sully, New Books, Pilot, Highest Duty, Chelsey Sullenberger, Memoir, Books News

Highest Duty is the tale of two Sullys. There's the North Texas teen whose mother saved to pay for flying lessons that led to the Air Force Academy an...

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New Michael Chabon Book/Excerpts from NYR

The Huffington Post | Jessie Kunhardt | Posted 11.20.2009 | Books

Read More: Book Reviews, Michael Chabon, Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay, New Books, Books, Manhood for Amateurs, Memoir, Bestsellers, Nyr, Books News

Between Ayelet's controversial 2005 New York Times article and ensuing Oprah appearance and Michael's new non-fiction, the Chabon family is out to ent...

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HLN's Jane Velez Publishes New Book

Dr. Belisa Vranich | Posted 10.08.2009 | Media

Read More: Addiction, Recovery, Jane Velez-Mitchell, Books, Vegan, Hln, iWant by Jane Velez, Overconsumption, Jane Velez, Jane Velez-Mitchell Book, Memoir, Media News

Part memoir, part how-to book, peppered with behind-the-scenes of TV journalism, Velez courageously chronicles her quest from "insanity to clarity, from egocentricity to altruism, from alcoholism to activism."

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Irene Vilar, Abortion Addict Speaks

The Huffington Post | Irene Vilar | Posted 10.05.2009 | Books

Read More: Abortion, Irene Vilar, Publishing, Impossible Motherhood, Books, Writing, Abortion Addict, Addiction, Memoir, Books News

At what point when trying to get a book published and failing at it does one say let's shelve the damned thing? The evening I got a status report summ...

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