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Fuse Book Commentary: Found in Translation — Out in the ‘Burbs

Every writer fantasizes about passionate readers. These were as passionate as they come.

By: Helen Epstein Filed Under: Books, Commentary, Featured, World Books Tagged: Chinese, Culture Vulture, Heda Kovaly, memoir, Under a Cruel Star: A Life in Prague 1941-1968

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.

By: Bill Marx Filed Under: Books, Featured, Interview Tagged: American history, H. L. Mencken, Happy Days, Heathen Days, Library-of-America, Marion Elizabeth Rodgers, memoir, Newspaper Days, Notes, The Days Trilogy

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.

By: Helen Epstein Filed Under: Books, Featured, Review Tagged: Culture Vulture, Lucinda Franks, memoir, Robert Morgenthau, Timeless

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.

By: Matt Hanson Filed Under: Books, Featured, Review Tagged: Gary Shteyngart, Little Failure, Matt Hanson, memoir

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.

By: Roberta Silman Filed Under: Books, Featured, Review, World Books Tagged: A Jewish Doctor in Poland, Country of Ash, Edward Reicher, memoir

Book Review: A Flimsily Built “House of the Interpreter”

Instead of exploring his inner life at the time or his adult understanding of the institution that shelters him, Ngũgi wa Thiong’o draws a dispassionate and largely predictable report of boarding school life.

By: Helen Epstein Filed Under: Books, Featured, World Books Tagged: Culture Vulture, Dreams in a Time of War, East Africa, In the House of the Interpreter, memoir, Ngũgi, Ngũgi wa Thiong’o, translation

Book Review: Memoir as Love Letter — “Into the Garden with Charles”

Into the Garden with Charles reads like a great love letter: beautifully written, full of feeling, a document of an intimate connection that never lost its wonder for the author.

By: Helen Epstein Filed Under: Books, Featured Tagged: Clyde Phillip Wachsberger, Culture Vulture, garden, gardening, Into the Garden with Charles, memoir, non-fiction

Author Interview: Jay Atkinson’s Memoirs of a Rugby-Playing Man — Remembrance of Punches Past

If Wordsworth was right in saying that poetry is emotion recollected in tranquility, than a rugby memoir is a punch in the face reconsidered from a hospital bed.

By: Bill Marx Filed Under: Books, Featured Tagged: Car, Harry Crews, Jay Atkinson, memoir, Memoirs of a Rugby-Playing Man, Rugby, Sports

Book Feature: A Conversation with Claude Lanzmann about his memoir, “The Patagonian Hare”

Claude Lanzmann is a great raconteur who’s honed his narrative skills as a veteran journalist. His memoir is exuberant and provocative at its best; bombastic and superficial at its worst.

By: Helen Epstein Filed Under: Books, Featured Tagged: Claude Lanzmann, Culture Vulture, documentary, french, Jewish, memoir, Shoah, The Patagonian Hare

Book Review: A Memoir That Gives Solace to Us All

A best-seller in France, Emmanuel Carrère’s quirky, but ultimately compelling memoir examines the effects of two disasters on very separate groups of people to whom the writer is connected, at the beginning, quite peripherally.

By: Roberta Silman Filed Under: Books, World Books Tagged: Emmanuel Carrère, french, Linda Coverdale, Lives Other Than My Own, memoir, My Life As a Russian Novel, The Adversary, The Mustache, translation

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