IN his travel memoir "Roads: Driving America's Great Highways," Larry McMurtry confesses right at the start that "there's no particular reason for these travels -- just the old desire to be on the move," and that's about as inarguable a justification for otherwise motiveless behavior as an American can muster.
For that matter, read Somaly Mam's terrific memoir, "The Road of Lost Innocence," which offers a luminous window into what these girls go through.
Finally, and rather shamefully, I've never read Middlemarch, so I want to tackle that and follow it up with Rebecca Mead's literary memoir, The Road to Middlemarch.
The novelist Paule Marshall recalls, in her 2009 memoir, "Triangular Road," a 1965 government-sponsored tour of Europe on which she accompanied Hughes.
On Thursday Michael Lang, one of the producers of the 1969 Woodstock Music and Art Fair, said he planned to bring a new show to Broadway that would use elements from his recent memoir, "The Road to Woodstock," written with Holly George-Warren.
Judging by his recent bestselling memoir, The Road Beneath My Feet, Turner seemed to spend most of the past decade gamely playing gigs in the kind of places no one else ever bothers to play: Devizes, Maidenhead, Trowbridge, Lossiemouth.
Kay, whose memoir Red Dust Road sees her travel from Glasgow to Lagos as she tells her story, said that when she "first went to Igboland and walked on that red dust road of my childhood imagination, I felt as if my footsteps were already there waiting for me, and all I had to do was step in them".
McMurtry related aspects of his own life in Walter Benjamin at the Dairy Queen: Reflections on Sixty and Beyond (1999), Books: A Memoir (2008), Roads: Driving America's Great Highways (2000), Paradise (2002), Literary Life: A Second Memoir (2009), and Hollywood: A Third Memoir (2010).
Stanton, the author of two memoirs, "The Road to Cooperstown" and "The Final Season," is fuzzy on the significance of Aaron's achievement; Hank Aaron may have "cleared a path for the Michael Jordans and Tiger Woodses of the sporting world," but did Jordan and Woods really follow that path?
In her memoir, Red Dust Road, she addresses her adoption.
