Flynn's memoir, his second after "Another Bullshit Night in Suck City," covers impending fatherhood, his mother's suicide, revelations of torture, and his father's alcoholism and dementia.
Agassi's collaborator was J.R. Moehringer, the author of an excellent memoir, in the reading of which Agassi says he escaped the pressures of impending retirement in 2006 and discovered, as he has put it, "the power that existed in someone's story".
A compelling, crushing addition (and, sadly, a subtraction) is "When Breath Becomes Air," by Paul Kalanithi, a neurosurgeon of immense promise who died of lung cancer, in March, at the age of thirty-seven, having labored on a memoir that stands as a manifesto for the genre, pressing readers to look at the impending darkness.
The threat gained greater urgency with the impending publication in the United States of "God Is Red," a book by Mr. Liao about Chinese Christians, and a memoir about his time in jail, "The Witness of the 4th of June".
His latest book, The Ticking is the Bomb, is a memoir that interweaves reflections on his childhood, his relationship with his father, his mother's suicide, the impending birth of his daughter, and his outrage and obsession with the torture depicted in the photos from Abu Ghraib.
A memoir within a memoir.
Bernanke's impending departure.
There is an impending crisis.
