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Book Review: The Sixties by Jenny Diski
British author uses memoir approach to ponder if "The Sixties" had lasting meaning.
Read More »Book Review: Beg, Borrow, Steal: A Writer’s Life by Michael Greenberg
"Beg, Borrow, Steal" will be a bestseller today and a classic inspiration tomorrow, like the work of Bellow and Kerouac.
Read More »Book Review: My Life in France by Julia Child with Alex Prud’homme
Read the book before you see Meryl Streep as Julia Child in the movie Julie & Julia.
Read More »Book Review: Honor Thy Father by Gay Talese
The story of the son of a Mafia don growing up in the insular world occupied by the Bonanno family.
Read More »Book Review: Up at the Villa by Linda Dini Jenkins
Sweet essays, drawings, photos and poems accompany a travel narrative
Read More »Book Review: Not Becoming My Mother by Ruth Reichl
Ruth Reichl opens her mother’s diaries for the first time, on what would have been her mother’s 100th birthday.
Read More »Book Review: Hunter S. Thompson: An Insider’s View by Jay Cowan
A memoir of a shared experience and a seemingly balanced assessment of Thompson.
Read More »Book Review: “Socialism Is Great!”: A Worker’s Memoir of the New China by Lijia Zhang
A memoir of coming of age during the birth pangs of new capitalism and democratization in China in the 1980s.
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