Magical Memoir Moments
Is Memoir Becoming Mandatory for Politics?
By Shirley Showalter
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October 18, 2008
Candidates rise or fall depending upon how voters feel about the stories they tell and the stories others tell about them. That’s why in recent years political conventions often feature films with the candidate as the hero, and hastily-written biographies usually crop up on Amazon and in the bookstores. John Kerry was savaged by a…
Thank You, Mary Karr!
By Shirley Showalter
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September 14, 2008
Yesterday’s New York Times carried an op-ed from Mary Karr about the way opponents of Barack Obama like to diminish him by calling him a memoirist, just as they make fun of his career as a community organizer. Karr, who has written several excellent memoirs herself, including and describes why memoir writing is a good…