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...frank disclosure" is much more a Proustian exercise in creative recollection than a marshaling of the facts. After all, Peter is an imaginative soul, and he knows it--that's what got him into this mess in the first place. "When you are a seat-of-the-pants memoirist," he writes, "you don't write about your life; you live your memoirs. You begin to feel that you and your account of yourself are one, like a mythical beast...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Eric Kraft's 'Flying' | 2/26/2009 | See Source »

...celebrity memoirist Roger Moore trips at the first hurdle. In the foreword to My Word Is My Bond, Moore promises to deliver "a fun book with no recycled scandal, tittle-tattle or dirtdishing." This seems to me to reflect a fundamental misunderstanding on Moore's part of the genre to which he is contributing. Fortunately for us Moore is not quite as good as his word...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: And the Bond Played On | 11/12/2008 | See Source »

...that expression is sometimes better applied to parents. Until recently the most egregious parental oversharing was usually your sister-in-law's Christmas letter or the guy with the endless stream of baby photos. But there's a new species of chatty dad and mom: the hipster parent-memoirist...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Culture Complex: Too Cool for Preschool | 2/8/2007 | See Source »

Lightning may not strike twice, but Bill Bryson, the serial memoirist, seems to have struck again with what appears to be recollections of his exciting 1950s childhood. The cover shows a well-worn and moth-eaten sweater with a yellow lightning bolt hanging on a clothesline. Does Bryson know that the “thunderbolt” is actually a lightning bolt? The cover is ambiguous in that regard, though as the author of “A Short History of Nearly Everything,” I suppose Bryson should know. Either way, it is funny to imagine the over...

Author: By Alexander B. Fabry, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: BY ITS COVER: Thunder Rolls | 11/15/2006 | See Source »

...filtered through the author's memory and feelings and the inherently impressionistic nature of any literary medium. But before we get lost in an epistemological fog, let's not forget that there's a difference between unavoidable distortions and willful deceptions. Some falsehoods come with the territory of the memoirist; others must be deliberately imported into it. That's a distinction that memoirist Mary Karr, author of The Liars' Club and Cherry, is adamant about. "This is not rocket science," she says. "This is not like sexing a chicken. Is it fiction, is it nonfiction? I think the entire book...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Trouble With Memoirs | 1/15/2006 | See Source »

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