The memoir's editor, Eckhart Gillen, discovered the manuscript, describing it as "an unhoped-for autobiographical wellspring" from an important artist.
It is more than 20 years since Winifred Gérin published an affectionate and enjoyable biography of Anne Thackeray Ritchie, the Victorian novelist, memoir-writer, editor and introducer of her father's works.
Jim Shepard, winner of The Story Prize, jokes that he writes short stories because "that's where the money is". The truth is, short stories are infinitely harder to publish than a novel or memoir because editors and other decision-makers say stories don't sell.
In this second installment of her memoirs, the editor of Gourmet retraces her route from married life on a commune in late-seventies Berkeley to her first job as a food critic, dining at expensive restaurants in Los Angeles with her glamorous editor (a distance of more than mere miles).
In her memoirs, Vogue editor Edna Woolman Chase recounted how Ortiz had arranged for numerous reproductions to be made and sent to New York, and that – although he had been interested in acquiring the original – he had been unable to do so.
The sight so shocked me that I had to see the title — "The Years with Ross, James Thurberr's memoir of the editor.
(Penguin, $15). In her third memoir, Reichl, the editor in chief of Gourmet, picks up where "Tender at the Bone" and "Comfort Me With Apples" left off.
In a 1983 memoir, Ben Wasson, an editor who was working with Faulkner on his previous book, "Flags in the Dust" (subsequently titled "Sartoris"), recalled that one day "Bill came to my room as usual..
In a 1983 memoir, Ben Wasson, an editor who was working with Faulkner on his previous book, "Flags in the Dust" (subsequently titled "Sartoris"), recalled that one day "Bill came to my room as usual...
It is a fact that makes this early novel all the more astonishing, not only for its intricate study of the mind of a fanatic, but also for its ingenious form: the narrative is presented as a memoir with an editor's expository notes.
