Not long ago I read Change Your Brain, Change Your Body: Use Your Brain to Get and Keep the Body You Have Always Wanted. This is a peppy little book with an agenda, to get the reader-in this case me-to stop poisoning himself and start eating foods that will heal what ails him. At one point he mentions how hard this process was hard for him, because everywhere he went, he found that people wanted to kill him. Ok, maybe kill him is a little bit of an overstatement. He found that everywhere he went, people wanted to feed him,…
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Official Book Club Selection
Kathy Griffin is not for the faint hearted or the easily offended. But she is funny in this foul mouthed tirade about growing up wanting to be a star and never quite making it. She talks about Oprah and does an amazingly accurate impression of Oprah’s daily bellow to her adoring throngs of fans. The many showbiz stories are a lot of fun, they prove that you can claw your way to middle if you really want it bad enough. I think my favorite little bit was when she talked about being complimented by Howard Stern-as in ‘Yeah, I’d do…
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.…