Now we are getting the redo of the series and the hoopla is starting all over again". Orion Books recently published "All for the Union: The Civil War Diary and Letters of Elisha Hunt Rhodes," based on the Union soldier whose memoirs play a pivotal part in the series.
Next to this, it comes as no surprise to see that his debut novel, The Syme Papers, set itself up proudly from the outset as a piece of historical literary fakery, and that there is also a fictionalised memoir, Playing Days, among his published works.
In particular it focuses on Fania Fenelon's memoir, Playing for Time (1976), which was subsequently adapted into a film.
On Tuesday, Fleury will appear at a Manhattan bookstore in support of his memoir, "Playing With Fire," which was published last month and is the No. 1 nonfiction book in Canada.
For Mr. Reich-Ranicki, the memoir played down the persecution of the Jews; for Mr. Walser, it was a painful confrontation with the past.
George Packer, in his review of Michael Hayden's memoir, "Playing to the Edge," describes the shortcomings of the former C.I.A. director ("Can You Keep a Secret?" March 7th).
He quotes her memoir "Playing the Field," in which she describes Burt Reynolds as "high on jive but low on substance".
His previous books, like this one vast intoxicating mazes of fact and fiction and memoir, have played a part in the rise of the borough and of the east of the capital in general.
Based on the memoirs of Arielle Holmes, who plays a loosely fictionalised version of herself, the film employs the tools of documentary – long-lens shots, hand-held camera – to effectively evoke the grubby desperation of street subsistence.
Based on Blair Tindall's memoir of the same name, Garcia Bernal plays a conductor at the New York Symphony Orchestra.
