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'The Double Life of a Rebel' Looks at Poet Arthur Rimbaudnew
This handy, brief biography is published by Atlas & Co. in its continuing series of "Eminent Lives."
The Memphis Flyer |
Leonard Gill |
11-21-2008 |
Nonfiction
Finding Herself in Cajun Countrynew
Journalist Rheta Grimsley Johnson writes a long love letter to her adoptive home in Louisiana's Cajun Country.
The Memphis Flyer |
John Branston |
06-06-2008 |
Nonfiction
History Lessons, Courtesy of Nicholson Baker and Howard Zinnnew
Human Smoke is itself a kind of reference work: a series of short reports -- some only a paragraph long and most of them drawn from newspaper accounts, diaries, documents, letters, memoirs, memos, and public speeches, with Baker doing the assembling and providing the timeline and context.
The Memphis Flyer |
Leonard Gill |
04-25-2008 |
Nonfiction
Author Daniel Mendelsohn: On a Rescue Missionnew
The Lost is more than a testament to the detective work that sent Mendelsohn from Ukraine, to Australia, to Scandinavia, to Israel, and to the Upper East Side in search of clues to his relatives lost during the Holocaust.
The Memphis Flyer |
Leonard Gil |
02-08-2008 |
Nonfiction
Grievous Angelnew
In his meticulously researched biography, David Meyer condemns the romanticized version of Gram Parsons and calls the man himself, by turns, "a pathological liar, an unreliable friend, a narcissistic husband and careless father."
The Memphis Flyer |
Leonard Gill |
12-14-2007 |
Nonfiction
Judith Jones Honors Her Muse, Gastereanew
The opening scene in Jones' memoir, The Tenth Muse: My Life in Food, says it all: Her mother was well into her 90s, and she had one question for her daughter: "Tell me, Judith, do you really like garlic?"
The Memphis Flyer |
Leonard Gill |
11-16-2007 |
Nonfiction
'Roadwork': Photo Finishnew
The life and times of Tom Wright: just add nitro to glycerin.
The Memphis Flyer |
Leonard Gill |
08-27-2007 |
Nonfiction
