memoir
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Thayil’s memoir will absolutely encourage readers to listen again, or listen deeper, or even listen for the first time, and that’s really the highest praise you can give a rock and roll memoir.
From Salon • Jun. 9, 2026
This is a memoir, and Thayil spends a reasonable amount of pages opening up about his family of origin, his childhood and the place he grew up.
From Salon • Jun. 9, 2026
But in reproducing the fragmentary nature of Susanna Kaysen’s memoir, which became a movie starring Winona Ryder and Angelina Jolie, the musical never acquires dramatic momentum.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 5, 2026
Jill Biden is out promoting her new memoir, and as for regrets she doesn’t have a few.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 2, 2026
He published a short memoir of Vincent soon after his death, and he published the letters that Vincent had written to him.
From "Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers" by Deborah Heiligman
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