Articles tagged "memoir"

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Celebrity Detox by Rosie ODonnell

by Leigh H. Edwards

[8.Feb.08] :. O'Donnell assesses the process whereby individual artists become celebrities, and what it's like when they and their audiences start to lose their sense of perspective in the midst of such intense, superficial media scrutiny.

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(Not That You Asked) by Steve Almond

by Michael Keefe

[4.Sep.07] :. Steve Almond is a typical American guy (well, perhaps aside from caring about books and the fate of the human race, anyway).

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Love Is a Mix-Tape

by Kembrew McLeod

[22.Jul.07] :. “I met Renée in Charlottesville, Va., when we were both 23,” Rob Sheffield writes. “When the bartender at the Eastern Standard put on a tape, Big Star’s “Radio...

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China Ghosts: My Daughters Journey to America, My Passage to Fatherhood by Jeff Gammage

by Huntly Collins [The Philadelphia Inquirer (MCT)]

[27.Jun.07] :. Gammage's beautifully written memoir, which weaves together emotionally wrenching narrative with insightful social commentary, will resonate with any American who has taken the same journey.

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The Mistresss Daughter by A.M. Homes

by Christopher Kelly [McClatchy Newspapers (MCT)]

[23.May.07] :. Adoptee finds she suddenly needs truth when past surfaces in The Mistress's Daughter by A.M. Homes.

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Mississippi Sissy by Kevin Sessums

by Chauncey Mabe [South Florida Sun-Sentinel (MCT)]

[9.May.07] :. Too good to be true: Literary excellence pushes memoir of growing up gay into fictional realms.

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