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Let Me Tell You What I Mean Joan Didion · 2021 · ★ 4.2 · 184p · ≈ 6h · Moderate From one of our most iconic and influential writers: a timeless collection of mostly early pieces that reveal what would become Joan Didion's subjects, including the press, politics, California robber barons, women, and her own self-doubt. Here are six pieces written in 1968 from the "Points West" Saturday Evening Post column Joan Didion shared from 1964 to 1969 with her husband, John Gregory… Shares: American essays, Biography & Memoir

Integrating Spirit and Psyche Mary Pat Henehan · 2002 · 280p · ≈ 9h · Moderate In this extraordinary collection, the voices of women's experience ring out loud and true!The power of narrative in therapy for women is undeniable. Used well, other women's narratives can help us to understand and rewrite our own. Here, women bare their souls, reflecting on self-enhancement and growth, on discrediting negative family scripts, on seeing through demeaning cultural messages, on… Shares: Narration, Storytelling, Women, Biography & Memoir

Telling Tales Kylie Cardell · 2015 · 156p · ≈ 5h · Moderate Young writers have historically played a pivotal role in shaping autobiographical genres and this continues into the graphic and digital texts which characterise contemporary life writing. This volume offers a selection of pertinent case studies which illuminate some of the core themes which have come to characterise autobiographical writings of childhood, including: cultural and identity… Shares: Authorship, Biography & Memoir

Committed Elizabeth Gilbert · 2010 · ★ 3.5 · 300p · ≈ 10h · Moderate At the end of her bestselling memoir "Eat, Pray, Love", Elizabeth Gilbert fell in love with Felipe - a Brazilian-born man of Australian citizenship who'd been living in Indonesia when they met. Resettling in America, the couple swore eternal fidelity to each other, but also swore to never, ever, under any circumstances get legally married. (Both survivors of difficult divorces. Enough said.) But… Shares: Personal Memoirs, Authors, Women, Biography & Memoir

Not quite what I was planning Rachel Fershleiser · 2008 · ★ 3.5 · 232p · ≈ 7h · Moderate A collection of six-word memoirs, contributed by both famous and obscure writers, records the human experience in works that are by turn whimsical, poignant, and bizarre, by such authors as Joyce Carol Oates and Joan Rivers. Shares: Personal Memoirs, Authors, Biography & Memoir

We Find Ourselves in Other People's Stories Amy E. Robillard · 2018 · 100p · ≈ 3h · Moderate We Find Ourselves in Other People’s Stories: On Narrative Collapse and a Lifetime Search for Story is a collection of five essays that dissolves the boundary between personal writing and academic writing, a longstanding binary construct in the discipline of composition and writing studies, in order to examine the rhetorical effects of narrative collapse on the stories we tell about ourselves and… Shares: Narration, Storytelling, Biography & Memoir

Relating narratives Adriana Cavarero · 2000 · 165p · ≈ 5h · Moderate Relating Narratives is a major new work by the philosopher and feminist thinker Adriana Cavarero. First published in Italian to widespread acclaim, Relating Narratives is a fascinating and challenging new account of the relationship between selfhood and narration. Drawing a diverse array of thinkers from both the philosophical and the literary tradition, from Sophocles and Homer to Hannah Arendt,… Shares: Narration, Storytelling, Literary, Biography & Memoir

Magpie Murders Anthony Horowitz · 2016 · ★ 4.0 · 496p · ≈ 16h · Moderate From the New York Times bestselling author of Moriarty and Trigger Mortis, this fiendishly brilliant, riveting thriller weaves a classic whodunit worthy of Agatha Christie into a chilling, ingeniously original modern-day mystery. When editor Susan Ryeland is given the manuscript of Alan Conway's latest novel, she has no reason to think it will be much different from any of his others. After… Shares: Literary, Authors

Take the cannoli Sarah Vowell · 2000 · ★ 4.0 · 219p · ≈ 7h · Moderate "While tackling subjects such as identity, politics, religion, art, and history, these autobiographical tales are written with a biting humor, placing Vowell solidly in the tradition of Mark Twain and Dorothy Parker. Vowell searches the streets of Hoboken for traces of the town's favorite son, Frank Sinatra. She goes under cover of heavy makeup in an investigation of goth culture, blasts… Shares: American essays, Biography & Memoir

Portrait of a genius Richard Aldington · 1930 · 43p · ≈ 1h · Challenging American ed. (New York, Duell, Sloan and Pearce) has title: D. H. Lawrence, portrait of a genius, but ... Includes bibliographical references: (p. 355-356). Shares: Psychological aspects, Authorship, Authors, Biography & Memoir

Ian Fleming Andrew Lycett · 1995 · ★ 3.7 · 486p · ≈ 16h · Moderate Sportsman, womanizer, naval commander, world-traveler, spy, the suave Old Etonian creator of the Cold War's archetypal secret agent was infinitely more complicated and interesting than his major fictional character, Agent 007, as Lycett shows in this full-length biography of Ian Fleming. Shares: Authorship, Authors, Biography & Memoir

Here Lies Eric Ambler · 1985 · 234p · ≈ 7h · Moderate Winner of the Edgar Award, Eric Ambler’s autobiography Here Lies is an intriguing look inside the mind of one of our greatest thriller writers. Here the famously recalcitrant Ambler peels back the layers of experience that affected his life with the same skill he uses to unfold the plots of his novels. His South London childhood; his brief engineering career, which he gave up to work in theater;… Shares: Authorship, Authors, Biography & Memoir

A smuggler's bible Joseph McElroy · 1966 · ★ 4.0 · 435p · ≈ 14h · Moderate A Smugglers Bible is Joseph McElroys first novel. David Brooke—who talks of himself in a split-personality manner—narrates a framing tale that consists of him "smuggling" his essence into eight autobiographical manuscripts, although their connection with Brooke is not always clear. Brooke seems to deteriorate, while his fictions become more real. Shares: Authorship, Authors, Biography & Memoir

Storycatcher Christina Baldwin · 2005 · 272p · ≈ 9h · Moderate "Story is the heart of language. Story moves us to love and hate and can motivate us to change the whole course of our lives. Story can lift us beyond our individual borders to imagine the realities of other people, times, and places. Storytelling - both oral tradition and written word - is the foundation of being human. In this powerful book, Christina Baldwin, one of the visionaries who started… Shares: Storytelling, Psychological aspects, Authorship, Biography & Memoir

Writing Fiction Janet Burroway · 1982 · ★ 4.1 · 397p · ≈ 13h · Moderate The most widely used and respected text in its field, Writing Fiction, 7e by novelists Janet Burroway and Elizabeth Stuckey-French guides the novice story writer from first inspiration to final revision by providing practical writing techniques and concrete examples. Written in a tone that is personal and non-prescriptive, the text encourages students to develop proficiency through each step of… Shares: Narration, Authorship

Talent Juliet Lapidos · 2019 · ★ 3.6 · 256p · ≈ 8h · Moderate An English grad student struggling with her dissertation about the intellectual history of inspiration desperately searches for a perfect case study to anchor her thesis, only to find it in the unlikeliest of places. Shares: Literary, Authors

The Princess Diarist Carrie Fisher · 2016 · ★ 3.9 · 270p · ≈ 9h · Moderate In 1976, Carrie Fisher was a teenager filming a movie, with an all-consuming crush on her costar. And it just happened to become one of the most famous films of all time -- the first Star wars movie. When she recently discovered the journals she had kept, she found them full of plaintive love poems, unbridled musings with youthful naiveté, and a vulnerability that she barely recognized. In… Shares: Personal Memoirs, Literary, Biography & Memoir

The Life of Ian Fleming John Pearson · 1966 · ★ 4.0 · 368p · ≈ 12h · Moderate Through extensive research and examination of private papers, this book exposes the fact that although Fleming might have denied the connection, the Bond books were in fact autobiographical. Shares: Authorship, Authors, Biography & Memoir

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