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BY the time a writer accrues enough bruises for a proper memoir, it would be uncharitable to wish him or her more.
Should the anonymous prankster, or even Jacob himself, step forward to write a memoir, it would probably be considerably more entertaining than this collection of measured banalities and grandly privileged utterances.
Lincoln Michel provides a thoughtful and evenhanded response, aptly named "Reality Boredom: Why David Shields is Completely Right and Totally Wrong," in The Rumpus: "The book is framed by a somewhat incoherent thesis that fiction is dead, narrative is pointless and the premier literary form of the now is the lyric essay (with memoir, it would seem, being a close second).
(If Valancy and Barney wrote a memoir, it would not be called The Winter of Our Discontent).
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As she wrote in her memoirs: It would consume too much space, and weary my readers, for me to go into all the particulars of my efforts to perfect my husbandʼs idea.
John T. Colby Jr., the publisher of Brick House Press, which is producing the memoir, said it would be published in October.
"The book is not rounded as a memoir as it would have been if she had had another year to work on it," said Peter Osnos, publisher and chief executive of PublicAffairs and a former colleague of Miss Greenfield at The Post.
A version of it was published in "The Memoirs". And it would have an uncanny echo in Dickinson's three "Master" letters, written to an unknown recipient, real or imaginary, between 1858 and 1861, when her poetic output was at a "white heat" (the expression occurs in Fuller's essay on George Sand, published in the Tribune, in 1845).
Since then hundreds of essays have been written on the subject of his Memoirs, and it would be fair to say that the chronicler has overshadowed the fighter, and with good reason, according to Sphyroeras.
Had I written a memoir, I would have to have written it as myself.
In his 1977 memoir, "I'd Do It Again," he said his American passport listed his birth date as Sept. 15, 1920, but he suggested that the date was wrong.
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