Emotional honesty is essential for memoir writing, and there is a lot of it here.
"City Boy" may lack some of the fineness and intensity of "My Lives," which remains the essential Edmund White memoir, the one to read first.
Applied Ballardianism is an astonishing book, part fictionalized hallucinatory memoir, part essential Ballard primer, all written in the style of the great man himself.
Gordon raises the flag of cultural fatigue against the memoir and questions the essential honesty of memoir-writing.
Nine essential pillars (poles?) of the stripper memoir.
It was essential, at this point in his memoirs, to disclose new depths.
The essential point of Ms. Winterson's singular and electric new memoir, "Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?" however, is that she didn't find a boat.
However, Wolters' name appears nowhere in the published version, and no mention is made of Wolters' help, essential to the writing and preservation of the draft memoir.
He insisted that the "neutral and objective" minutes prepared by officials (as opposed to ministerial memoirs or statements to Parliament) were an essential source in trying to understand how the affair developed.
The book was conceived as being "about the North" as well as a memoir, the latter fulfilling another of walking literature's essential elements: self-disclosure.
