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A Brief History of Memoir-Bashing
It's almost as old as the memoir itself.  
Ben Yagoda   Mar 30, 2007   Memoir Week  
For Whom the Memoir Tolls
How to write about the dead.  
Allen Shawn   Mar 29, 2007   Memoir Week  
Ishmael Beah's A Long Way Gone
Rehabilitating child soldiers.  
Elizabeth Rubin and Michael Vazquez   Mar 29, 2007   Memoir Week  
Just Screw It
How I told my family I was writing about our feud over the Sweet'N Low fortune.  
Rich Cohen   Mar 28, 2007   Memoir Week  
Collateral Damage
How I lost a friend and ex-lover by writing about him.  
Edmund White   Mar 28, 2007   Memoir Week  
Momma's Boy
How I wrote a memoir about the mother I once hated.  
John Dickerson   Mar 28, 2007   Memoir Week  
Inside Autism
What two memoirs can tell us about the disease du jour.  
Ann Hulbert   Mar 28, 2007   Memoir Week  
Ivory-Tower Ambassador
The studying, and selling, of America.  
Christopher Benfey   Mar 28, 2007   Memoir Week  
In a Land Far, Far Away
How I wrote a memoir about my father.  
Danielle Trussoni   Mar 28, 2007   Memoir Week  
Publish, Then Flee
How to tell your family you're writing about them.  
Sean Wilsey   Mar 28, 2007   Memoir Week  
Road to Nowhere
My life as a victim of Hurricane Katrina and the ineffectual Road Home program.  
Blake Bailey   Mar 27, 2007   Memoir Week  
When Irish Tongues Are Talking
How I told my colleagues, family, and former countrymen I was writing about them.  
Frank McCourt   Mar 27, 2007   Memoir Week  
All About Me?
The state of the modern memoir.  
  Mar 27, 2007   Memoir Week  
The Woman Warrior at 30
Maxine Hong Kingston's secrets and lies.  
Jess Row   Mar 27, 2007   Memoir Week  
Autobiography and Poetry
Defending the impulse to "confess."  
Dan Chiasson and Meghan O'Rourke   Mar 27, 2007   Memoir Week  
What the Little Old Ladies Feel
How I told my mother about my memoir.  
Alison Bechdel   Mar 27, 2007   Memoir Week  
The Liar's Club
How I told my friends I was writing about my childhood—and what they said in return.  
Mary Karr   Mar 27, 2007   Memoir Week  

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