He has read every diary, letter, memoir, report card and dossier, attended every late supper, masked ball and febrile seduction, counted every "dead soul" serf whom Pushkin inherited as property and every "free peasant" he "mortgaged" to pay his brother's debts, and exhumed every body of every Decembrist the poet might have met at school before they plotted their abortive coup without him.
"Reagan didn't seem to know who I was," she would later write in her 2000 memoir Reporting Live.
In an obituary of Walter Cronkite on Page A1 July 18, The Associated Press, relying on published accounts that included Cronkite's memoir, reported erroneously that "cronkiter" was used in Sweden and the Netherlands as a term for "TV anchorman".
Making his way to Nuremberg in 1937, his memoirs report, he witnessed the Führer walking to the podium, "his shoulder brushing mine as he went past".
You may also find yourself wanting to know more about the man whose "abundance of storyteller's gifts," as Wood puts it, bends genres to create a kind of memoir-reporting-literature hybrid.
In contrast, Nimoy and Shatner's memoirs report that after the screening he called his lawyer and demanded a quarter of the scenes be cut; the producers refused, and within 48 hours he was dead.
Mike Massimino, in his memoir, "Spaceman," reports having spent almost a full day staring out a window of the Space Shuttle Columbia, watching sunrises and lightning storms ("like a form of communication, like a sequence, like the clouds are alien creatures speaking to each other in code").
Ron Howard has signed on to direct and produce the adaptation of Vance's memoir, Deadline reports.
The event will also feature his daughter Liz, who collaborated with her father on the project, titled "In My Time: A Personal and Political Memoir," NBC Chicago reports.
This double issue of The New Yorker is a mixture of memoir and reporting about families; a prior family issue, just over a year ago, was mostly fiction.
