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Looking for the Lost: Memoirs of a Vanishing Japan

[16.Oct.09] :. With its narrow streets and dark and hidden infoldings, there’s a distinctly feminine, mysterious, and inexplicably magnetic aspect to Japan that exists in few other places in the world.
 

She and I: A Fugue

[11.Sep.09] :. Slapping the word 'Fiction' on the cover of a book is not a "get out of jail free" card or, more accurately, a license to kill – just because memoirs have to be true, it doesn’t follow that novels should be allowed to be false.
 

Is Alyse Myers’ Life More Important Than Yours?

[17.Aug.09] :. Ding dong! Ding dong! Another dysfunctional-family memoir bearing a terrible secret is at the door!
 

Augusten Burroughs: The View Through a Saltine Cracker

[23.Jun.09] :. As a memoirist, Burroughs is highly skilled at the art of aestheticized self-pity.