Coffee House Press, $23. Fern Jacobi, the restless 29-year-old narrator of this eccentric novel, describes her writing style as a "sticky confabulation of memory, memoir and molasses".
Whatever one writes, and however crackerjack one's memory, memoir is by definition an intrusion into the privacy of others.
Speak, Memory, autobiographical memoir of his early life and European years by Vladimir Nabokov.
Vladimir Nabokov, in "Speak, Memory," his memoir, said, "People in trains, who lay their newspaper aside, fold their silly arms, and immediately, with an offensive familiarity of demeanor, start snoring, amaze me".
So let's talk about memory and memoir.
Fnally, Small Memories, A Memoir by José Saramago (Harvill Secker), a mosaic of memories from this great writer's life.
She authored "Precious Memories" a memoir of her relationship with Rabbi David and Tamar de Sola Pool.
While he has an unusually clear memory, writing a memoir is no easy exercise, Mr. Ravitch said.
It is more of an essay in memory than a memoir.
Laura Kasischke won for poetry for her book "Space, in Chains" (Copper Canyon Press); Mira Bart?as the autobiography winner for "The Memory Palace: A Memoir" (Free Press); and Geoff Dyer won for criticism for "Otherwise Known as the Human Condition: Selected Essays and Reviews" (Graywolf Press).
As an adolescent in Paris in the 1990s, I had listened as my mother, an Iranian exile, read English excerpts from "Speak, Memory," Vladimir Nabokov's memoir of his early years in Russia and his life after the Bolshevik Revolution, in Crimea, Germany and France.
