He said he was inching toward a memoir but wanted to avoid what everyone expects: a chronicle of Florent, the restaurant.
The writer and performer Julie Klausner's new book, "I Don't Care About Your Band: What I Learned from Indie Rockers, Trust Funders, Pornographers, Felons, Faux-Sensitive Hipsters, and Other Guys I've Dated," is a dating memoir that manages to avoid excessive self-deprecation, self-pity, or self-flagellation.
By Meredith Blake February 18 , 2010The writer and performer Julie Klausner's new book, "I Don't Care About Your Band: What I Learned from Indie Rockers, Trust Funders, Pornographers, Felons, Faux-Sensitive Hipsters, and Other Guys I've Dated," is a dating memoir that manages to avoid excessive self-deprecation, self-pity, or self-flagellation.
He also asserts in his memoirs that Pemberton in particular wanted to avoid surrendering on July 4, and thus by holding out for better terms he defeated his own purposes.
Here's what Harrison says: I made up scenes for the novel that expressed what I understood about my family better than any real events I could remember, and mixed those with actual memories, most of which I tried to avoid repeating in the memoir.
She showed uncanny maturity, even as a child, and later managed to avoid that malady of teenagers and memoir writers, self-pity.
Isaac Bashevis Singer's memoir "In My Father's Court" has been altered to avoid any reference to "Jews" or "Gentiles," which is rather like insuring that a restaurant menu makes no mention of the food on offer.
For that reason, as she explains, she tries to avoid the conventions of well-known memoirs such as Jan Morris's Conundrum.
As the author of my own memoir about crack addiction, I don't pretend to know how to avoid the numbing narrative aspects of drug use.
Comparisons to Tina Fey's "Bossypants" are hard to avoid in this comic feminist manifesto-cum-memoir by a British broadcaster and columnist.
