noteable non-fiction
Submitted by taryn on Tue, 02/20/2001 - 10:00
Tags:
- the boys of my youth - jo ann beard
- a heartbreaking work of staggering genius - dave eggers (orphaned genX memoir)
- a dreadful man - brian aherne (biography of george sanders)
- memoirs of a professional cad - george sanders (celebrity memoir)
- the liars' club - mary karr (childhood memoir)
- i'm with the band - pamela des barres (tell-all memoir)
- journals of sylvia plath - sylvia plath
- traveling mercies - anne lamott (autobiographical essay collection)
- angela's ashes - frank mccourt (childhood memoir)
- and i don't want to live this life - deborah spungen (biography of nancy spungen, girlfriend of sid vicious)
Author Comments:
in no particular order...
I found Dave Eggers book mildly annoying in parts but brilliant in others. I thought you might enjoy hearing him tell one of the tales from the book here, on the radio show This American Life. Hearing this was my first exposure to his work and left quite an impression.