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10 Dysfunctional Family Memoirs And One Shakespeare Play (PHOTOS, POLL)

Huffington Post | Posted 11.20.2009 | Books

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Dreading going home for the holidays? So are a lot of people, and we imagine some of these writers wouldn't be looking forward to it either. Here ...

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Sarah Palin's Much-Anticipated Assault On Literature Slated For November

Julie Farby | Posted 12.02.2009 | Media

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Julie Farby

While Sarah's juicy, soon-to-be-released memoir (do I smell Pulitzer?) may be soaring up the bestseller lists, her success on the lecture circuit hasn't exactly fared as well.

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Memoirs and Memory

Frank Bruni | Posted 11.16.2009 | Living

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Frank Bruni

With person after person I met on my book tour, I came to see that our memories aren't really patchy; they're patchworks, randomly retrieved bits and scraps that we weave together into something different.

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Full Disclosure: Have Mommy Bloggers Gone Too Far?

Wendy Sachs | Posted 10.19.2009 | Living

Read More: Julie Myerson, Memoirs, Mommy Bloggers, Children, Privacy, Taboos, Internet, The Lost Child, Jon and Kate Plus 8, Living News
Wendy Sachs

Am I breaching the natural maternal pact with my young children when I use them as the backdrop in writing about my own experience in motherhood?

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The Cheney Papers

Jim Lichtman | Posted 07.26.2009 | Comedy

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Jim Lichtman

It was announced that former Vice-President Dick Cheney has sold the rights to his memoir. "Mr. Cheney's memoir," the New York Times reported, "will focus on the past 40 years of his life."

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Fighting My Own Drug War: An Excerpt From What's Left of Us

Richard Farrell | Posted 07.24.2009 | Living

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Richard Farrell

Heroin is not a cold-shake like cocaine. The impurities used to cut heroin need to be cooked off in boiling water before you shoot it intravenously.

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Dick Van Dyke Memoir Planned

AP | Posted 07.16.2009 | Media

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NEW YORK — Cue the theme music: Dick Van Dyke is writing a memoir. The star of "The Dick Van Dyke Show" and such films as "Mary Poppins" and "B...

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'Twilight' Sequel Script Found In Trash

AP | BETSY TAYLOR | Posted 06.12.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Memoirs, New Moon, Film, Twilight, Los Angeles-California, Entertainment News

ST. LOUIS — A St. Louis beauty salon owner accidentally happened upon one of the hottest Hollywood scripts _ the pages from an upcoming "Twiligh...

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What to do with the Leftovers

Giulia Melucci | Posted 05.07.2009 | Style

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Giulia Melucci

I suffer from an unrelenting compulsion to cook for the men who enter my life for however long or briefly. My heartbreak usually comes with a side of leftovers.

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The Late Great Simon Gray

Josa Young | Posted 04.25.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Theatre, Plays, Simon Gray, Smoking Diaries, Memoirs, Reading, Books, Writing, Actor Harry Burton, Simon Gray Theater, Acting, Simon Gray Play-Write, Matthew Burton, Simon Gray Playwright, Harry Burton, Director Harry Burton, Entertainment News
Josa Young

Victoria Gray, the widow of the playwright Simon Gray, was thinking of creating a website for her late husband, as an online resource for anyone interested in his work. I leapt at the chance.

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