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Book Review: “Why Not Say What Happened” — A Memoir About Living a Life of the Mind
For those of us who value a formal education done right, this volume is a glorious celebration.
Book Review: No “Odd Woman” Out — Vivian Gornick’s Richly Engaging Memoir
Author Vivian Gornick’s discontent is foundational, fertile, unquenchable, except by writing, and quite often funny.
Book Review: Oliver Sacks’ “On The Move” — A Mix of the Distant and the Intimate
Oliver Sacks’ On the Move is an absorbing, idiosyncratic, often moving memoir.
Book Review: “A Brief Stop on the Road From Auschwitz” — Destined to Become a Classic
Göran Rosenberg has written a calm yet passionate account of events after Auschwitz, a memoir marked by great intelligence and equally great emotional intensity.
Fuse Book Commentary: Found in Translation — Out in the ‘Burbs
Every writer fantasizes about passionate readers. These were as passionate as they come.
Book Interview: Marion Elizabeth Rodgers on the Expanded “Days” of H. L. Mencken
In The Days Trilogy, Expanded Edition, H. L. Mencken comes off as a marvelously mellowed master, his trademark savagery smoothed over, its energy focused on generating a pungently picturesque vision of a vanished America.
Book Review: Lucinda Franks’s Memoir – A Deeply Romantic Story of a May-December NYC Power Couple
Pulitzer-prize winning journalist Lucinda Franks’s writing can be brilliant, deeply honest, and startling; other times superficial, sentimental, New Agey, or simply not credible.
Fuse Book Review: “Little Failure” — Gary Shteyngart’s Memoir is Amusing But Thin
Gary Shteyngart’s memoir proffers the rhetorical zest and caustic wit of his novels, but it lacks their satiric edge.
Fuse Book Review: “Country of Ash” — Another Essential Holocaust Memoir
We become increasingly aware that we are in the mind of a doctor who has taught himself to observe carefully, who has an amazingly strong will to survive, and who chooses not to waste precious time and energy on anger or revenge.