I heard her say so at a Ritz-Carlton lunch during an interview on her captivating memoir, Innocent Spouse, about running afoul of the IRS when her husband died with the saloon he owned deeply in hock.
In Yesterday Morning, her captivating memoir of "a very English childhood", published in 2002, she says: "I believe that if infidelity does not cause heartbreak in a spouse or deprive children of a parent and if it cheers up the two rule breakers, thereby adding to the pleasure abroad in the world, it does no harm".
As Margo Jefferson illuminates in her captivating memoir, Negroland is not so much a geographic location as a state of mind; an exclusive club without discernible borders, to which few have ever belonged.
This captivating memoir written by Malala Yousafzai and Christina Lamb evokes a variety of emotions in us, as readers.
In this captivating memoir about his troubled family in Oklahoma, the author recounts his parents' failings and his own.
In this captivating memoir about his troubled family in Oklahoma, the author recounts his parents' failings… Diane Arbus knew from freaks.
Rock chronicles almost always undershoot rock-bottom expectations; uniquely, this endlessly captivating memoir by the soul of the Stones surpassed the highest hopes.
In this captivating memoir about his troubled family in Oklahoma, the author recounts his parents' failings… All Joy and No Fun, by Jennifer Senior (Ecco).
This captivating memoir by the distinguished Romanian novelist opens in 1997, in New York, with the author agonizing over whether to visit his homeland for the first time since 1986.
The first half of her captivating memoir, "From Harvey River," takes us back to the family home of Goodison's mother in Hanover Parish in the early 1900s — to a world informed by a sublime mélange of Victorian sensibility, Irish bluster and West African rhythms.
In her captivating memoir, Decisions: Life and Death on Wall Street, she takes us on a brisk journey from the depravity of 1980s Wall Street to the ramifications of the systemic recklessness that crushed the global economy.
