Sentences with phrase «as a memoir of»

Reading «Disrupted» strictly as a memoir of career transition — rather than as some sort of exposé of life at HubSpot or life «in the startup bubble,» as the title provocatively puts it — will open your eyes to many of of the book's finer points.

Not exact matches

Knox credits Bridge Across My Sorrows, a memoir by Christina Noble with Robert Coram, as being a big source of her personal and professional resilience.

First Lady Melania Trump dismissed Ivana Trump's comments joking that she really held the position of First Lady, as the former insinuated in a statement that her husband's ex-wife only made the comments to sell her new memoir.

He is the author of two books: BIG LIKE: CASCADE INTO AN ODYSSEY, a travel memoir of an almost regular guy who gets totally unstuck in Tokyo — a «funny as hell non-fiction book about wanderlust and traveling abroad»; and TESTOSTERONE PIT, a short, edgy, humorous novel about car salesmen, their customers, managers, and shenanigans at a large Ford dealership.

As much as we may like to ignore the fact, one day we'll all face the urgent question at the center of this memoir - how to die welAs much as we may like to ignore the fact, one day we'll all face the urgent question at the center of this memoir - how to die welas we may like to ignore the fact, one day we'll all face the urgent question at the center of this memoir - how to die well.

Written by broadcast journalist Katy Tur, the New York Times - bestseller is part - memoir, part - recap of her life on the road as the NBC News pool reporter for the Trump campaign during the 2016 presidential race.

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 push by Republicans to obtain the memos came after the release this week of Comey's memoir, «A Higher Loyalty,» and interviews in which he portrays the president as a liar and immoral.

«I love books about people coming into their vocations, and this haunting memoir by musician Patti Smith brilliantly evokes a time and place in New York City, as she and Robert Mapplethorpe began to build artistic lives for themselves,» says Rubin of this one.

In the finals, as Jackson writes in his new memoir, Eleven Rings, «Michael was reverting to his old habit of trying to win games by himself.»

It will be all but impossible for audiences to determine guilt or innocence, dereliction of duty or devotion to veracity, based strictly on the movie: Its screenplay was adapted by James Vanderbilt from Mapes» own memoir, Truth and Duty: The Press, the President, and the Privilege of Power, in which she strenuously defends her work on what became known as «Rathergate» (or «Memogate»).

He published a travelogue / memoir in 2011, The Sportsman: Unexpected Lessons from an Around the World Sports Odyssey, which recapped his rise to NFL fame, as well as his time as a host of Travel Channel's original series, Dhani Tackles the Globe.

The juicy narratives driving Kipnis's four archetypal cases — lovelorn astronaut Lisa Nowak is featured, as is disgraced judge Sol Wachtler, memoir fabulist James Frey, and the dynamic duo of Tripp and Lewinsky — keep things on the zippy side, but the subject matter is worth taking seriously.

In his memoir «The Courage to Act: A Memoir of a Crisis and Its Aftermath,» Ben Bernanke illustrated frequent interaction and consensus building between the Fed Chair and Governors of the Board, as well as strong influences by the New York Fed Presmemoir «The Courage to Act: A Memoir of a Crisis and Its Aftermath,» Ben Bernanke illustrated frequent interaction and consensus building between the Fed Chair and Governors of the Board, as well as strong influences by the New York Fed PresMemoir of a Crisis and Its Aftermath,» Ben Bernanke illustrated frequent interaction and consensus building between the Fed Chair and Governors of the Board, as well as strong influences by the New York Fed President.

Rediscovering a love for biography and memoir as a way of learning about history.

«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.

In his charming memoir, Frederic Warburg says that the prominent Jewish community in Berlin appeared to be split down the middle between those hundreds of thousands of Jews who elected to stay and seek a restoration of judicial norms for both the Jews and citizens in general and the equally large numbers of Jews who chose the hard road of migration and a loss of what seemed to be personal security as well as homes and possessions.

In her memoir, she writes at length about what happened in her family and in her backyard, and even about Satan himself, as she tries to make sense of her experience.

Mantel's memoir, like the novels, is thick with smoldering grievances: against teachers («I don't know if there is a case on record of a child of seven murdering a schoolteacher, but I think there ought to be»); adults generally («In Hadfield, as everywhere in history of the world, violence without justification or apology was meted out by big people to small»); and above all, against the Catholic Church, which stood in judgment on her mother when Mantel was a child.

In «King Billy Is a Gentleman,» an early story of Mantel's that covers some of the same ground as her memoir, the narrator learns of this neighbor boy's death from a yellowed newspaper clipping.

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.

The author of the acclaimed memoir Radical Son is described as a «convert» to conservatism and, as in his Marxist days as a leader of the New Left, he continues the policy of taking no prisoners.

The parables, sayings, and anecdotes from the life of Jesus were used as «paradigms,» illustrations, exempla in the early Christian preaching and teaching, rather than as quotations from a finished and complete biography, based perhaps upon the memoir of an apostle.

Plus, a spiritual memoir (my one weakness) coupled with Oxford, literature, poetry, and other English - isms (my other one weakness), well, I sort of adopted her as my kindred spirit.

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.

But Seyler will be the first to tell you that Cash's memoir of life as a sinner, «Man in Black,» is much better than Cash's Christian novel, «Man in White.»

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.

French journalist Anne Isabelle Tollet, serving as Bibi's ghostwriter, tells her story in Blasphemy: A Memoir: Sentenced to Death over a Cup of Water.

Given the theological cast of her writing, one might expect to find in her memoir a portrait of the artist as a young Jonathan Edwards — someone who (shortly before he went off to college) observed the curiosities of the flying spider, analyzed the optics of the rainbow, and then celebrated the glory of the creator as revealed in the natural creation.

The higher power recently spoke with EW about his upcoming memoir — as told to former «Daily Show» exec David Javerbaum — his Twitter account and (but of course!)

If you're interested in somebody taking Cornel West to the intellectual, literary, and ethical woodshed, go over to Inside Higher Ed to read Scott McLemee's review of Cornel West's recently published as - told - to memoir.

One of the more poignant quotes, from the memoir of an Alabama soldier, could serve as a synopsis of Christian teaching on suffering and death.

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.

Sifton went to Radcliffe College and the University of Paris before starting a career as an editor at Viking Press, but her memoir is pervaded by a feeling of disappointment.

Even though it won't be released until June of 2010, my first book — a spiritual memoir about growing up in the conservative evangelical subculture only to question my faith as a young adult — is really starting to come to life.

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

There were other acts of piety too: the affecting long essay Jefferson Davis Gets His Citizenship Back, first published in the New Yorker (as were many of his later poems), and the memoir, «Portrait of a Father,» which first appeared in the Southern Review only two years ago.

First, I want to think with you about a matter that requires me not entirely to pass by some parts of the memoir, even though» as I said at the outset» I myself think it hard to find the right way to take them up.

Despite the book's subtitle, however, this is not so much a history as a combination of memoir and spiritual autobiography, the work of a writer who is wrestling honestly with his faith and the legacy of his church.

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 the book begins, Simonini is writing his memoir, after a chance encounter with the young Sigmund Freud, in an attempt to recover from a case of partial amnesia and, as it turns out, split personalitAs the book begins, Simonini is writing his memoir, after a chance encounter with the young Sigmund Freud, in an attempt to recover from a case of partial amnesia and, as it turns out, split personalitas it turns out, split personality.

New York Times: Iranian Cleric Says Rushdie's Murder Could Stop Insults to Islam's Prophet As my colleague Michiko Kakutani explains in her review of the novelist Salman Rushdie's new memoir, an Iranian religious foundation reportedly raised the price on his head over the weekend to $ 3.3 million.

Hence the «Memoirs of the American Anthropological Association» include such works as Studies in Chinese Thought (Memoir No. 75), Studies in Islamic Cultural History (Memoir No. 76), Islam: Essays in the Nature and Growth of a Cultural Tradition (Memoir No. 81), and Village India (Memoir No. 83).

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.

As he writes in an excerpt from a memoir recently published in The New Yorker, he began to be haunted by the thought of «the ancientness of the Mass — that it and its antecedents very likely go farther back into the human past than any other existing ceremony....

Below Stairs is the memoir of Margaret Powell, who entered the world of domestic service as a young girl.

Think of this memoir as half behind - the - scenes of a restaurant kitchen and half city - girl - moves - away - to - embrace - her - roots.

Her memoir, My Life in France, is witty and humble, a love story between herself and her husband Paul, as well as her discovery of the joy of cooking.

Their bucolic distillery, as described by a state treasury agent named W. George McMullen in his self - published memoir, Twenty - Eight Years a T - Man, maintained a production capacity of 400 gallons of corn liquor.