Memoir

Laura Bush's Memoirs Courted While George Is Still "Literary Poison"

New York Post | Posted 12.12.2008 | Media


LAURA Bush is lining up a multimillion-dollar deal to write her memoirs - but the first lady's lame-duck hubby may have to wait years before cashing i...

Truth or Fiction: Voting by Memoir

David Henry Sterry | Posted 12.05.2008 | Media


David Henry Sterry

McCain didn't even write his memoir. And the book reads like it was written by the captain of the football team who had the smart kid do it for him.

In John Edwards' Country

Robert Draper | Posted 12.04.2008 | Politics


Robert Draper

Six years ago, John Edwards was looking ahead, and with good reason. No Southern politician seemed to have a more glorious future.

Book Review -- A Persistent Peace: One Man's Struggle for a Non-Violent World

Fr. Rick Malloy, S.J. | Posted 10.20.2008 | Living


Fr. Rick Malloy, S.J.

Since the early 1980s, Dear been everywhere on the front lines of the struggle for Faith and Justice in our times, from numerous jail cells to the offices of the Pentagon.

Swift Boat Author Smears Self

Bruce McCall | Posted 09.15.2008 | Politics


Bruce McCall

His next written effort, Corsi notes, involves hatchet jobs on all six of the most prominent Democratic vice presidential candidates, "just to be ready."

The Summer Squawk About Memoir

Lisa Dale Norton | Posted 08.06.2008 | Living


Lisa Dale Norton

Memoir provides a means for anyone writing to become the hero of his or her own life. That's why we write memoir and that's why we read it.

Two Cents Plain

One For The Table | Posted 07.25.2008 | Living


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.

A Tribute to Irish Writer Nuala O'Faolain

Robyn Blumner | Posted 06.19.2008 | Entertainment


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.

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.

The 23/6 Fake Memoir-o-Tron

236.com | Posted 03.28.2008 | 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...