Her tastes have always run to memoirs that test and topple the boundaries of the form; the writers she admires, including Leonard Michaels, Maggie Nelson, Jamaica Kincaid, Spalding Gray, Eula Biss, David Shields, "write absolutely free from the weight of cliché, as if they're writing the first memoirs in the world".
Rehman asked if the Muslim cleric, who was promoting his memoir, would participate in a test to see if he had really adapted to liberal Norwegian society.
The memoir will also be a test of China's censorship regime, as technologies for getting around Web and other censors war with those that strengthen the control of information.
The Happiness Project is the memoir of a year spent test-driving the wisdom of the ages, current scientific studies, and lessons from popular culture about how to be happier.
In his engaging memoir, "An Accidental Statistician", Box describes testing treatments for poison-gas victims.
As he concluded in his memoirs, finished after his election: "The true test of our devotion to freedom is only just beginning".
The memoir ends with her scoring high on an intelligence test and winning a scholarship to the Northfield School for Girls, (now the coed Northfield-Mount HerMassachusettsn Massachusetts.
How well Beijing is able to keep Zhaos name and memoir out of underground and virtual circulation will be tested over the next few months.
In a 1966 case, "Memoirs" v. Massachusetts, Justices Brennan, Warren, and Fortas had used as a test of obscenity that the material in question be "utterly without redeeming social value".
But in 1999, you said you were sober in another memoir, "Heat," then wound up in jail years later after testing positive for cocaine use.
