This month Americans are being treated to the near simultaneous appearance of Alan Bennetts Untold Stories ($27, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2006), a collection of memoirs, diary entries and essays, and the original London cast of History Boys, on Broadway for a 20-week run.
Eyes Wide Open Frederic Raphael Phoenix £7.99, pp186 Buy it at BOL Through journal entries, memoir and scripted dialogue of his communications with the late Stanley Kubrick, Raphael records his part as scriptwriter in the off-set drama of making Eyes Wide Shut.
The novel poses as a pastiche of invented documents as many popular 19th century novels did (Bram Stoker's "Dracula," for example), with excerpts from letters, an unfinished memoir and journal entries.
Mary Ann Caws, who teaches English, French and comparative literature at the City University of New York, and Sarah Bird Wright, an independent scholar, have drawn on diary entries, memoirs and letters, with commentary from earlier writers used to stitch the whole together.
Yet it's only when you read the memoirs or diary entries of the protagonists that you realise just how personal, and how arbitrary, are the great actions of state.
To achieve his goal, and fulfill his book contract, Jacobs would read the Encyclopaedia Britannica from cover to cover -- or, at least, claim to have done so -- and then write a memoir containing ostensibly hilarious entries like this: "Greenland.
Scott McClellan's memoir is the latest entry in the latter genre.
In this stimulating environment, Tarski developed his fundamental analysis of semantical paradoxes, first dating back to 1929 and 1930, reported by Łukasiewicz to the Polish Society of Sciences in Warsaw in 1931 and then detailed in the long memoir of 1935 (see the entries on Tarski and on Tarski's truth definition).
From his diary entries, Joey produces a memoir which is sold to a London publisher for a large advance and cynically published as The Amazing Adventures of Blobby McStink to delight an English readership hungry for more 'Oirish' whimsy.
The barrier for entry into the jock memoir genre is, unsurprisingly, pretty low.
