Sentences with phrase «d as a memoir»

Would you categorize GRANNY D as a memoir or a political tract or both?

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He has been on tour after the publication of his first true memoir, about his mother Lillian, a woman he describes as «the lifeguard on the shores of Lake Fucked.»

«The Christian Church has started to realize that we're sexual, too, and we are just as visually stimulated as men and we look at porn,» said Crystal Renaud, author of the recent book «Dirty Girls Come Clean,» a memoir about her own addiction to porn.

Sometimes a phrase or sentiment from the memoir is lifted virtually unchanged into the novels, as when Mantel's mother and Jack, like Henry and Anne, are described as «[the] couple who had endured, to be together, so much adverse public opinion.»

(Can't give you the details as I'm writing a memoir and don't wish to give the good bits away in case it gets published) Even though I have doubted all the other stuff along the years — promises etc that didn't come to pass, despite my diligent prayer and obedience, I still cry out to «something out there» because I am spirit in a human body, and know that I am on a journey that has to mean more than simply this earthly plain.

Rubio has also drawn attention with the release of his memoir, An American Son, as well as his brief time in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter - day Saints, his baptism into the Roman Catholic Church, and his ties to an evangelical church.

I remembered Brennan Manning — the man who has translated the love of God in a way that I could receive it more than probably any other writer — was addicted to alcohol and I re-read up one of his last books before he died: «All is Grace: A Ragamuffin Memoir» where he vulnerably writes about what this battle has cost him, even as he experienced the unending and unconditional love of God in the midst of it, how he experienced regret and pain and loss alongside of the love and tenderness of God in this dependency.

In his memoir, Born Again and Again: Surprising Gifts of a Fundamentalist Childhood, Sweeney describes the many ways that fundamentalism has defined him even as he has sought his way out of it.

When Jason Boyett and I realized we had both written memoir - style books about our experiences with doubt to be published byZondervan in the spring / summer of 2010, we decided to team up rather than compete — an arrangement that has probably worked more in my favor than his, seeing as Jason's already published a shelf - full of books and has earned a reputation for being one of the industry's most thoughtful and humorous voices.

It's unlike any other I've written, for in addition to memoir, it includes original poetry, short stories, soliloquies, and even a short screenplay, all aimed at engaging your questions, doubts, ideas, and imagination as you wrestle with the Bible along with me.

Memoir is a complicated and very personal genre, as you acknowledge, and I have found myself unable to write a standard review of it.

Few publishers would put out such a huge and hugely self - indulgent memoir as Participant Observer.

Moreover, given the rise of memoir as a literary genre in recent decades, I would see Gioia's list and raise him a series of nonfiction writers whose work is shot through with a profoundly Catholic sensibility — writers like Richard Rodriguez, Annie Dillard, Patricia Hampl, Thomas Lynch, and Barry Lopez.

As Scott McClellan revealed in his new tell - all memoir about serving as press secretary in the White House, the Bush administration has consistently implemented a policy of «you're either for us or you're against us» when it comes to making foreign policy decisionAs Scott McClellan revealed in his new tell - all memoir about serving as press secretary in the White House, the Bush administration has consistently implemented a policy of «you're either for us or you're against us» when it comes to making foreign policy decisionas press secretary in the White House, the Bush administration has consistently implemented a policy of «you're either for us or you're against us» when it comes to making foreign policy decisions.

Despite facing some recent (and valid) criticism, the spiritual memoir remains beloved among many people of faith, as it has been since St. Augustine first invented the genre.

It was my conviction that, as no professional biographer in his right mind would touch Whitehead, someone who knew him and his work should write as much about this great man's life as the scanty materials allowed; not a memoir, mind you, but an objective partial biography.

As it was with her first book and memoir: Some Girls: My Life in a Harem, Lauren's fictional debut proves, yet again, that she has what it takes to leave an indelible mark.

I have rarely been quite so tickled as when I learned that my memoir, Some Girls: My Life in a Harem, had been banned.

If there is a message in this wry and honest parenting memoir, it's to toss unrealistic hopes, to stop parenting with such intention, or, as Lauren puts it: «Sometimes, you have to be content.»

-- Boston Globe «If there is a message in this wry and honest parenting memoir, it's to toss unrealistic hopes, to stop parenting with such intention, or, as Lauren puts it: «Sometimes, you have to be content.»

The Conservative views has not received as much personal memoir of interpretation, although Oliver Letwin's recent Hearts and Minds does deal with some aspects in a very elegant and thoughtful way.

A real reformer of social policy as a minister, her memoir has been very popular in France and this edition has been supported by the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

The memoir, which dishes on Bernie Sanders, former FBI Director James Comey and Russian President Vladimir Putin, as well as Trump, has some Democratic Party wags worried.

All together, Cuomo has earned $ 783,000 in income from the book, which served as both a memoir and an outline of his governing philosophy.

No former cabinet minister has written a memoir that comprehensively deals with Iraq and Afghanistan, and more general memoirs or political histories, such as Anthony Seldon and Guy Lodge's Brown at 10, only discuss Afghanistan in passing.

On the other hand, it can be argued that Quinn is not especially concerned with Thompson, and has in fact been thinking just as much about the soon - to - be candidacy of Anthony Weiner, as demonstrated by her Sharing Tour and upcoming memoir, seemingly tailor - made to trump Weiner's own Oprahtic tale of personal redemption.

Clinton earned more than $ 5 million in royalties for her 2014 memoir, «Hard Choices,» and roughly $ 1.5 million delivering speeches last year, according to a personal financial disclosure her campaign released hours after Trump said he had filed his own disclosure with the FEC, as required by law.

After three years as US ambassador to Japan, Caroline Kennedy is coming home to New York and has big plans: a political run and penning a memoir, Kennedy insiders tell The NY Post.

Seth Agata, the new and third head of the commission, once served as Cuomo's counsel, where he wrote to JCOPE to ask for clearance for Cuomo to earn hundreds of thousands of dollars to write a memoir for a company that has business before the state.

Introduced by Mr. Samuels as Andrew Cuomo, the former comedian launched into a profane impersonation of the governor, who declared he would soon be publishing a follow - up to the unsuccessful memoir he released last year: his enemies list, featuring everyone in attendance.

A memoir would have been perhaps diffi cult for him to write as it would have required lengthy self - analysis, not least about his unhappy childhood.

Yet, given the chance to write a warts - and - all - memoir of her time in cabinet, she has instead produced a densely argued book on British Muslims and how they are positioned as the latest «enemy within».

She pointed out that in her 10 - year career as a runner (her new memoir is Running: A Love Story), there have always been racers who did inconsiderate things.

Ebert tweeted this morning that his memoir, «Life Itself,» which was published last year, and recently hit as a paperback, «has been optioned for a doc by Steve James («Hoop Dreams «-RRB- and Steven Zaillian, with Martin Scorsese as exec producer» And Ebert has expanded on the news a little, telling Matt Singer at Criticwire «This dropped out of the blue.

Film critic Roger Ebert announced on Twitter that his memoir, «Life Itself» (which is newly out in paperback, by the way), has been «optioned for a doc by Steve James («Hoop Dreams») and Steven Zaillian, with Martin Scorsese as exec producer.»

If I'd gone to war at the age of eighteen and come home without firing a shot, I suspect I'd have written something as vapid, grandiose, and self - conscious as Anthony Swofford's memoir Jarhead, the story of a ground war that never really materialized (and wouldn't until the son of that era's president decided to bring to climax what daddy'd coaxed to erection).

Strengths: Another movie that festival audiences adored is Paul McGuigan's «Film Stars Don't Die in Liverpool,» adapted from Peter Turner's memoir about Gloria Grahame, starring Annette Bening as the aging star who has an affair with a younger actor (Jamie Bell).

«I can not tell you, as much as I thought the memoir and Solomon's words and work was special, I had no concept until I saw the movie for the first time,» said the film's screenwriter, John Ridley, accepting the prize in that category as he referred to protagonist Solomon Northup.

Propped up by class and affectation — he wears a bow tie, attends Princeton reunions to bellow «Old Nassau» with other middle - aged inebriates, and competes with his wife to see who can more fully drop the «r «s in French words such as «chevre» and «memoir» — he's spent a lifetime imagining himself a success, only to discover abruptly that he is in fact a failure at both work and marriage and had simply never noticed.

Truffaut doesn't push any of the trendy buttons in his chronicle of a connoisseur des femmes: Charles Denner approaches each stage of each conquest as though it were a matter of life and death, and by the time the title of the movie, and Denner's memoir - in - progress, has been fulfilled, we see that those are the stakes precisely.

Cameraperson As a visually radical memoir, CAMERAPERSON draws on the remarkable footage that filmmaker Kirsten Johnson has shot for other filmmakers and reframes it in ways that illuminate moments and situations that have personally affected her.

As a visually radical memoir, CAMERAPERSON draws on the remarkable footage that filmmaker Kirsten Johnson has shot for other filmmakers and reframes it in ways that illuminate moments and situations that have personally affected her.

(In Sestero's memoir, it's described as «an Eastern European accent that had been hit by a Parisian bus.»)

That memoir has now been made into the movie «Denial,» featuring Rachel Weisz as Lipstadt, Timothy Spall as Irving, and Tom Wilkinson and Andrew Scott as Lipstadt's legal team: barrister Richard Rampton and solicitor Anthony Julius.

It's based on the best selling memoir — steady yourself if you haven't heard this title — Same Kind of Different As Me: A Modern - Day Slave, an International Art Dealer, and the Unlikely Woman Who Bound Them Together.

by Bill Chambers Burt Reynolds and Frank Langella are very different actors (Burt could not have pulled off Dracula, nor would Langella have ever looked at home behind the wheel of a Trans - Am) and, as it happens, very different writers, yet in 2015's But Enough About Me: A Memoir and 2012's Dropped Names: Famous Men and Women As I Knew Them, respectively, they've taken a similar approach to memoir by reminiscing about, in Langella's words, «the transient company of many remarkable people.&raquas it happens, very different writers, yet in 2015's But Enough About Me: A Memoir and 2012's Dropped Names: Famous Men and Women As I Knew Them, respectively, they've taken a similar approach to memoir by reminiscing about, in Langella's words, «the transient company of many remarkable people.&Memoir and 2012's Dropped Names: Famous Men and Women As I Knew Them, respectively, they've taken a similar approach to memoir by reminiscing about, in Langella's words, «the transient company of many remarkable people.&raquAs I Knew Them, respectively, they've taken a similar approach to memoir by reminiscing about, in Langella's words, «the transient company of many remarkable people.&memoir by reminiscing about, in Langella's words, «the transient company of many remarkable people.»

While the film and the memoir have been given the unfair label of being ONLY ABOUT «slavery is bad» (as if that fact alone would not be worthy) many of the more subtle points have been ignored, but is best summed up this way, «It is notable not only for its lucid description of plantation life, with detailed passages on the methods by which cotton and sugarcane were harvested and processed, and how slaves were fed, housed and punished, but also for the author's evenhanded treatment of his subject: although he denounces slavery as an institution, Northup expresses his gratitude to the masters who treated him with gentleness and generosity, and shows a surprising ability to forgive even the most unimaginable cruelties.»

But though no cinephile's life would be complete without a viewing of The Room — an experience one early reviewer compared to «getting stabbed in the head» — there's no need to have seen it in order to enjoy The Disaster Artist, James Franco's hilarious and big - hearted adaptation of Sestero's memoir, starring Franco himself as the eccentric maestro and his brother Dave Franco as Sestero, a Sancho Panza — style sidekick to Wiseau's grandiose Quixote.

Fey stars as Kim Baker — the script was adapted from Kim Barker's memoir, The Taliban Shuffle — a journalist in New York City whose career has plateaued.

Up until today, we've been referring to Robert Zemeckis» untitled 3D picture as To Reach the Clouds, since it was adapted from high - wire artist Philippe Petit's memoir of the same name.