Autobiography | Autobiography
Aug.22.2011
A quick look at the accounts of Cullen's "eureka moments" in this gripping autobiography can be deceptive. They are not vague psychic intuitions. They arise from an obsessive, long-term saturation in the language and the history of the fourteenth century, in particular the language of allegory....
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Mar.04.2011
I love you. The meeting ran late. I want a divorce. One little word, one casual lie, one devastating announcement—and our lives are turned upside down forever.
In He Said What?, twenty-six gifted women writers share profoundly personal moments in which a man in their life said something—good or...
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Jun.20.2010
Village Voice and Interview cofounder John Wilcock was first drawn into the milieu of Andy Warhol through film-maker Jonas Mekas, assisting on some ofWarhol’s early films, hanging out at his parties and quickly becoming a regular at the Factory. “About six months after I started hanging out at...
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Jan.06.2010
From Publishers Weekly The daughter of famed African American writer Alice Walker and liberal Jewish lawyer Mel Leventhal brings a frank, spare style and detail-rich memories the this compelling contribution to the growing subgenre of memoirs by biracial authors about life in a race-obsessed...
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Jan.06.2010
Young Fleet Street reporter arrives in New York. Interviews Marilyn Monroe and Marlene Dietrich. Helps to start Village Voice, edits city's first 'underground' paper, co-edits similar papers around the world, watches Andy Warhol learn to make movies and writes first bio of this enigmatic artist....
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Dec.27.2008
Celebrate this moment by answering life's most basic question--"Who am I?"--in bite-size pieces.
A fill-in book with prompts, checklists, short answers, and places for photos, drawings and doodles, Picture of Me creates a colorful portrait of your present-day life and what makes you tick....
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Oct.31.2008
One memoir, about eight years I spent as a journalist in Poland 1966-1974.
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Sep.25.2008
The true story of a spoiled, high-powered Washington lawyer (me) who is forced to leave her job at the Senate and come back home to the Smoky Mountains to work as an unpaid and inept receptionist in her father's tiny medical office. Comedy, pathos, and bad reception follow.
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