A plethora of academic tomes, memoirs and novels about the genocide exist, including Turkish government-sponsored propaganda purporting to prove that most of the Armenians died of hunger and disease during their forced march to the Syrian desert in 1915.
Recently, however, the purges have been the focus of academic seminars, personal memoirs and other forums.
Here is the loathing of academic puritanism, the memoir-writing actress ex-wife, the uncomfortable rub of Jewishness, the inability to shut up about the sexy stuff.
This year organizers have gathered close to 2,200 books of, and about, poetry: anthologies; chapbooks; translations; poetry-related prose (essays, memoirs, academic works, biographies); poetry objects (poetry baseball cards, a series of poetry postcards); and multimedia titles published in the 14 months since the 2009 showcase.
Both, as the record of memoirs, academic research and, in Johnson's case, White House tapes has proved, were motivated by a fear of appearing weaker on national security than their Republican rivals.
Once it was made available to researchers and academics, Skirth's memoir began to attract attention, and his story was featured in Richard Schweitzer's The Cross and the Trenches (2003), Michele Barrett's Casualty Figures (2007), and in Ian Hislop's documentary Not Forgotten: The Men Who Wouldn't Fight (2008), in which Hislop interviewed Jean Skirth about her father's war experiences.
Soon after he became chancellor, Mr. Branscomb recalled in his memoir, "Purely Academic" (Vanderbilt University Press, 1978), how he had set out to "de-emphasize" intercollegiate football.
The academic's insistence that memoirs are fictions is unpersuasive to readers.
Hers is a personal memoir, not an academic effort.
He also appears to have left no relevant academic paper, no conference proceedings, memoir or other publicly available source unturned.
