Sentence examples for memoir touchstone from inspiring English sources

He talked a mile a minute (about work, home, current events, television and taxes) while signing copies of his new book, "The Amorous Busboy of Decatur Avenue: A Memoir" (Touchstone), and sipping herbal tea with sugar substitute.

Pictures of the two in the studio appear in her photo-memoir "My Crazy Beautiful Life," just published by Touchstone: Iggy Pop, 65, shirtless and showing off his buff, leathery torso, and Kesha, arm around his shoulder, mock-snarling.

Mr. Rabin's method, in his memoir, is to use one of his cultural touchstones as a wedge to pry open a period in his own blasted life.

Wurtzel is the author of the best-selling 1994 memoir "Prozac Nation," a book that became a cultural touchstone and earned Wurtzel a reputation as a kind of damaged, if gifted, wastrel-about-town.

Some of the reasons behind that can be found in Prodigy's just-released memoir, "My Infamous Life: The Autobiography of Mobb Deep's Prodigy" (Touchstone), which reads like a catalog of rumbles and conquests; actually, mostly rumbles.

The film is based on the lives of Jerry and Mary Newport, who went on to write a memoir, "Mozart and the Whale: An Asperger's Love Story" (published in January by Touchstone).

Touchstone plans to publish Lee's "Amazing Fantastic Incredible: A Marvelous Memoir" on Oct. 6.

Marshall was a close friend of Angelou's, and it's possible that her portrait of a first-generation American girl who goes to visit her grandmother in Barbados was a touchstone of sorts for the voice that Angelou developed in her own memoir: conversational, but achingly aware of the ways in which what James Baldwin called "the Old Country" could contribute to the making of the new black woman.

Perhaps more than in other celebrity memoirs, musicians tend to tell stories with built-in tension and drama, said Stacy Creamer, the publisher of Touchstone, which will release a book in October by Duff McKagan, the former Guns N' Roses bassist.

They would cover touchstone political and cultural topics first addressed on the Web site, as well as more personal memoirs.

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