Autobiographical Fixation
Worth the 100-year wait? Mark Twain’s racy autobiography scheduled for release. Last week marked the 100th anniversary of Mark Twain’s death, and that means that his autobiography can finally be...
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One of the most buzzed-about men in the country, WikiLeaks co-founder Julian Assange, is writing an autobiography, presumably focusing on his work with WikiLeaks, the media and government assault that...
View ArticleGreat Moments in Greatness: R. Kelly’s Autobiography Shatters Unintentional...
The legend of R. Kelly — from urine soaked statuatory rape to serialized singing from a wardrobe to being lauded on a profanity filled animated program — has gone a long way since his debut with The...
View ArticleWrite Your Own Rock Star Memoir
A quick guide to your own celebrity tell-all. I read a lot of rock star memoirs. At this point I’m not sure why I read a lot of musician memoirs, but I do. They are redundant, terribly written, and...
View Article“They said to be blind meant not to see. How was I to believe them when I saw?”
And There Was Light: The autobiography of Jacques Lusseyran, blind hero of the French Resistance. — His favorite color was green — the color, he later learned, of hope. And hope is what pours over you...
View ArticleWhat a Friend We Have in Stephen! A Writing Lesson…From Stephen King
Jesse Kornbluth reviews On Writing by Stephen King. — Reader Review: ‘I got this book for an airplane read. Sat next to the window and started in. That book had me laughing so hard that tears were...
View ArticleWhy I Write – I’m Reclaiming My Life
When a split in her marriage seemed to turn her entire life into a lie, Christine Benvenuto starting writing down the truth in order to get her story, and her groove, back. — “Why didn’t you write this...
View ArticleAutobiographical Fixation
Worth the 100-year wait? Mark Twain’s racy autobiography scheduled for release.Last week marked the 100th anniversary of Mark Twain’s death, and that means that his autobiography can finally be...
View ArticleA Chance to Speak
One of the most buzzed-about men in the country, WikiLeaks co-founder Julian Assange, is writing an autobiography, presumably focusing on his work with WikiLeaks, the media and government assault that...
View ArticleWrite Your Own Rock Star Memoir
A quick guide to your own celebrity tell-all.I read a lot of rock star memoirs. At this point I’m not sure why I read a lot of musician memoirs, but I do. They are redundant, terribly written, and...
View Article“They said to be blind meant not to see. How was I to believe them when I saw?”
And There Was Light: The autobiography of Jacques Lusseyran, blind hero of the French Resistance.—His favorite color was green — the color, he later learned, of hope.And hope is what pours over you on...
View ArticleWhat a Friend We Have in Stephen! A Writing Lesson…From Stephen King
Jesse Kornbluth reviews On Writing by Stephen King.—Reader Review: ‘I got this book for an airplane read. Sat next to the window and started in. That book had me laughing so hard that tears were...
View ArticleWhy I Write – I’m Reclaiming My Life
When a split in her marriage seemed to turn her entire life into a lie, Christine Benvenuto starting writing down the truth in order to get her story, and her groove, back.—“Why didn’t you write this...
View ArticleThe Book He Won’t Finish
Although Prince had reportedly written 50 or so pages, his sudden, tragic loss will sadly keep his mystery intact.—A few weeks ago, there was news that Prince had signed a book deal to pen his...
View ArticleRock’s Rowdy Past: Memoirs From Keith Morris And Brad Warner
Embed from Getty ImagesBy Resa AlboherIf there was ever a time when you wore ripped T-shirts, donned safety pins for earrings and cut your own hair in a ragged way with a pair of dull scissors, then...
View Article‘I was Saved by the Bell’ Is an Amazing Autobiography
I was Saved by the Bell is all about one mans fight to achieve his lifelong dreamI have never watched a full episode of Saved by the Bell before. It was just never a show that appealed to me. I am...
View ArticleKim Gordon’s Love Envelope
I stay awake reading about a woman’s life and quite suddenly, I am learning about my own. She is the psychiatrist and her showcase will display not more than the re-ignition of autobiographical...
View ArticleWill the Real Tiger Woods Please Stand Up?
Embed from Getty Images In his final book, the late Arnold Palmer did something about Tiger Woods that no one else has had the courage to do.Palmer spoke of Woods in the past tense.Palmer wrote that...
View Article‘Poker Brat’ A Book about a Man who Never Quit on his Dreams
‘Poker Brat’ A book that tells an inspiring, true storyI have had the chance to read some autobiographies in my life. Honestly, I usually really like them. Yet I have read a few that weren’t that...
View ArticleThe Headlines are Ugly. Here’s Some Beauty. In Fact: Gorgeous
Embed from Getty ImagesJulia Child would be 104, so it’s understandable that, for many Americans, she looks and acts like Meryl Streep in the Nora Ephron film that burnished her eccentricities. But in...
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