In a traditional memoir, chapters are written; in this sort of composed memoir, chapters are assembled out of small journal entries, developed or expanded a bit, or edited.
In his newest, "In the Hamptons Too," his second memoir, each chapter recreates an encounter with a notable Hamptonite.
And the memoir's final chapter suggests a further possibility.
In his unpublished memoir, a "fictional" chapter has a thinly disguised Walsh claiming to have had eighteen significant relationships with women.
Larson courts embarrassment when he puts the piece through the memoir mill, writing chapter-length fantasies about his parents' or grandparents' reaction to the piece.
In the middle chapters, memoir gives way to largely neutral historical analysis, with Achebe citing a range of voices, media reports and books.
Still, in one of her memoir's final chapters, when Ms. Bridges delivers a stunning coup de grâce to the loutish contractor who was once her lover, you might cheer out loud.
Oakley organises his memoir into themed chapters but common threads include his sexuality (Oakley is, for the avoidance of any doubt, a homosexual), a genuine passion for pop culture, a romantic spirit and an appetite for misadventure.
While Ridley compressed some scenes in the memoir's earliest chapters, he didn't have to invent any of the most horrific acts that befall Solomon in the film, including when he has to whip fellow slave Patsey (newcomer Lupita Nyong'o) on the orders of a sadistic plantation owner named Edwin Epps Michael Fassbenderr).
