Yet reading Kathryn Harrison's story first as fiction and then as memoir, many critics understandably wondered aloud why she would turn to both.
Fifty pages into this long-awaited memoir, songwriter, critic and author Robert Forster gets very meta.
Judith Thurman writes that Rose Wilder Lane, before collaborating with her mother, Laura Ingalls Wilder, on the "Little House" series of books, had, among other literary efforts, "ghost-written memoirs" (A Critic at Large, August 10th & 17th).
In 1979, Ms. Jackson published a memoir that surprised critics.
Twain was a close friend of Grant's and helped him edit his memoirs; some malicious critics have even suggested that he ghostwrote the whole book.
In this memoir, Roth, a critic, employs the ambitious novels that his father gave him as a teen-ager — Mann's "Tonio Kröger," Goncharov's "Oblomov," Turgenev's "Fathers and Sons" — to understand his "father's wholly unreconciled life".
Until Further Notice, I am Alive (Granta) is a philosophical memoir by the critic-illustrator Tom Lubbock of the discovery of the brain tumour that was to kill him in 2011, recounted with the same clarity of voice that marked his art writing.
The Insatiable Critic by food critic Gael Greene is a sensual memoir of her journey to food critic and her founding work with City Meals on Wheels.
This class combines the critical with the creative students have to read and critic memoirs as well as write a final 10-page nonfiction creative writing piece.
Memoir, for a culture critic in 2011, was a dead zone.
