The Wall Street Journal also reviewed Ben Yagoda’s Memoir: A History. Reviewer John Gross notes Yagoda’s appreciation for modern memoirs:
On the whole, Mr. Yagoda celebrates the greater honesty of contemporary memoirs, in comparison with their often less-than-frank predecessors of 50 or 60 years ago. Readers may feel that this supposed honesty is sometimes questionable: An […]
In recent memory Edmund Morris’ Dutch and the James Frey scandal showed me memoirs were merely biographies and autobiographies where the author was allowed to make stuff up. Ben Yagoda’s Memoir: A History looks like it offers up plenty of supporting material for my thesis.
“My True Story“
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This was a pleasant surprise. My copy of Going Rogue arrived from Amazon.com. I expected it next week.
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