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• “You know, I've always bridled at the term memoirist because Ive wanted to be known for the quality of my writing as opposed to the particulars of my biography.”

  NPR: David Rakoff's 'Half Empty' Worldview Is Full Of Wit

• “As Walters brilliantly implied, a memoirist is a raconteur trying to strike up an acquaintance.”

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• “Based on your reading of The 19th Wife, what kind of memoirist do you think the real Ann Eliza Young was?”

  The 19th Wife by David Ebershoff: Questions

• “He's keen to show Johnson as an ahead-of-his-time liberal and also the kind of memoirist of mental illness who ends up on Oprah.”

  The Wall Street Journal: Dr. Johnson, Reconsidered

• “Levitt has purged himself of his guilt by using his data-mining prowess to fact-check "memoirist" James Frey, the Oprah-anointed author of recovery memoir A Million Little Pieces.”

  Forbes: Best Business Books Of 2005

• “I don't think anyone is expecting Dan Brown to be the kind of memoirist that James Frey was.”

  CNN Transcript Mar 28, 2006

• “In fairness to Holocaust "memoirist" Herman Rosenblat, his is but a tiny white lie compared to some of the other kinds of troubling lies that have gone down in the context of Holocaust remembrance.”

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• “The idea for the panel, said co-owner Margie Scott Tucker, came from a statement made by Alan Kaufman, novelist, memoirist, influential in the Spoken Word movement and editor of The Outlaw Bible of American Literature: "When I hear the term Kindle, I think not of imaginations fired but of crematoria lit.”

  Hot air didn't stop the Nazis, either.

• “After the understandably silent and reportedly drunken Garner Jr. "hangs up" on Roger, the would-be memoirist volunteers to go to North Carolina himself to try to salvage the account while Don -- after a supportive Dr. Faye tells Don he's the "most hireable man on Madison Avenue" (wait, wasn't he, like inevitably doomed?) -- and the others announce the loss to the staff and deliver stirring speeches and so forth.”

  The Huffington Post: William Bradley: Mad Men: Breach One "Chinese Wall' and You Just Want to Breach Another One an Hour Later

• “After the understandably silent and reportedly drunken Garner Jr. "hangs up" on Roger, the would-be memoirist volunteers to go to North Carolina himself to try to salvage the account while Don -- after a supportive Dr. Faye tells Don he's the "most hireable man on Wall Street" (wait, wasn't he, like inevitably doomed?) -- and the others announce the loss to the staff and deliver stirring speeches and so forth.”

  The Huffington Post: William Bradley: Mad Men : Breach One 'Chinese Wall' and You Just Want to Breach Another One an Hour Later

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