"An Old Wife's Tale" is an argument against the 1960's and 70's in the form of a memoir, although we can pretty much scratch the memoir part for all the personal information on offer.
MAN AND BOY As we await "Dropped Names," Frank Langella's memoir due next year, we can catch him live in Terence Rattigan's play about a ruthless 1930s financier who needs help from his estranged son (Adam Driver) to stave off Depression-induced ruin.
A hard-headed man, Mr. Marcus was unfazed by such technical slip-ups: "Fortunately," he reflected in his 1974 memoirs, "Minding the Store," "we can always pass the blame to the Postal Service".
This is fascinating, for Joffe's memoirs are publicly available, so we can check them out directly.
More than a decade later, we can safely say that memoirs are the new novel: a constantly evolving form of storytelling.
The poem ends: 'Then without shame we can esteem ourselves.' Memoirs of a Highland Lady, Aurum Press, £17.99.
A memoir you can navigate by!
In his memoir, you can see how the predictable and the personal, the universal and the unique, flow together.
The arrival of Grace Coddington's splashy, dishy, very giftable memoir, "Grace," can be directly traced to "The September Issue," R. J. Cutler's 2009 documentary about the inner workings of Vogue magazine.
As Lauren Slater wrote in her book "Lying," "There's only one kind of memoir I can see to write, and that's a slippery, playful, impish, exasperating text, shaped, if it could be, like a question mark".
