How dare they be so delighted just because that's what he brought?" "Bigger Than Life," which is part of Tobias Wolff's American Lives series, is an uneven, confused memoir, guided by emotional logic and a sense of entitlement.
In this memoir-guide hybrid, Issa humorously illuminates what it's like to be unabashedly awkward in a world that regards introverts as hapless misfits and black as cool.
Now comes "Clean," less memoir than guide for those just entering the terrain Mr. Sheff knows so well.
Mr. Welch's executive assistant, Rosanne Badowski, 45, is writing -- with her boss's blessing, and veto -- a book that will be part memoir, part guide to serving the powerful.
The 266-page soft-focus memoir, party guide and design essay offers glimpses into the lives and (unidentified) homes of David Geffen, Eli and Edye Broad, Barbara Walters and Bill Blass, to name a few of Ms. Tarlow's boldface clients and friends.
Mrs. McHugh, a former editor and the author of seven books, shares her thoughts in "Special Siblings: Growing Up with Someone With a Disability," (Hyperion, 1999) a memoir and guide for other siblings of people with disabilities.
Many other publishers have brought stuff forward to get out of their way – which is perhaps why Thursday looks so strong," said Philip Stone, charts editor at the Bookseller, who is tipping titles including Balding's memoir, Bear Grylls Survivall Guide and William Shawcross's collection of the late Queen Mother's letters as potential surprise hits this Christmas.
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It has lots of company on bookshelves now: memoirs, caregivers' guides, children's stories, supposed prevention programs.
It is one part grief memoir, one part guide to raptors, and one part biography of T. H.
Those guys would have liked the idea of trying to write an emotional memoir as a guide to pencil sharpening composed in decorous, genteel prose.
