I found this odd little book of a rich man who loses everything and ends up working at a Starbucks kind of fun. Who doesn’t like a My How The Mighty Have Fallen story? In this case it’s an evil Madison Avenue Ad Man who was handed a job by a friend of a friend after his graduation from an Ivy League College. After forty years of living the good life, driving fancy cars, rubbing elbows with the rich and famous, wearing two thousand dollar suits-he is fired from his high roller job. At first he isn’t too worried. But…
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Running With Scissors
You know, memoir is not court stenography. Memoir is not a video on YouTube. Memoir has a narrative. Memoirs, a good memoir, is a person’s experience, their memory, and how that experience mattered to them, emotionally and psychologically. Augusten Burroughs I’ve always liked memoirs, though I didn’t always know that I was watching a memoir. A Christmas Story is a fairy tale memoir. Little Big Man was a fake memoir. Most of the brilliant writing of David Sedaris is in the form of memoirs. Oprah yelled at James Frey for making stuff up in his memoir A Million Little Pieces.…