self-invention

Later, she sews toward the possibility of self-invention, self-transformation, and I think by the end she is using it as a way to take care of herself financially and, in a sense, psychologically -- she can support herself, and she can take her aesthetic sense and make something with it that will reflect an internal process of understanding and imagination.

A conversation with Ann Packer, author of The Dive from Clausen's Pier 2010

Her perseverance and self-invention raised her to be a heroine of her own life composition.

Interview with Susan Vreeland 2010

The story of Frank Sinatra's rise and self-invention and the story of his fall and remarkable comeback had the lineaments of the most essential American myths, and their telling, Pete Hamill once argued, required a novelist, "some combination of Balzac and Raymond Chandler," who might "come closer to the elusive truth than an autobiographer as courtly as Sinatra will ever allow himself to do."

Book Review Roundup: Lennon, Dylan, Sinatra And Marilyn Monroe Sammy Perlmutter 2010

After local prejudice and the family's own emotional frailty result in unspeakable tragedy, the gravedigger's daughter, Rebecca, begins her astonishing pilgrimage into America, an odyssey of erotic risk and imaginative daring, ingenious self-invention, and, in the end, a bittersweetbut very "American" triumph.

The Gravedigger's Daughter by Joyce Carol Oates: Book summary 2010

The story of Frank Sinatra's rise and self-invention and the story of his fall and remarkable comeback had the lineaments of the most essential American myths, and their telling, Pete Hamill once argued, required a novelist, "some combination of Balzac and Raymond Chandler," who might "come closer to the elusive truth than an autobiographer as courtly as Sinatra will ever allow himself to do."

Book Review Roundup: Lennon, Dylan, Sinatra And Marilyn Monroe Sammy Perlmutter 2010

When Kiki's own memoirs were published in 1929 and promptly banned in the United States, her friend Ernest Hemingway wrote an introduction that acknowledged her capacity for self-invention.

Kiki de Montparnasse by Jose-Luis Bocquet and Catel Muller – review 2011

Yet the Internet does offer the opportunity for self-invention.

Archive 2009-06-01 Erika Nelson 2009

Yet the Internet does offer the opportunity for self-invention.

Haunted by My Digital Ghosts Erika Nelson 2009

Speaking of reinvention -- or rather self-invention -- few people are attracting as much attention for having mastered this in the social media age as Tim Ferriss, the "superbad" self-promoting self-help guru who makes licensed therapists, time-management experts and exotic ashram retreats seem obsolete.

Courtney Reum: Reinvention, Self Invention and Social Media Courtney Reum 2011

A remarkable feat of research and reporting spanning the Civil War to the civil rights era, Passing Strange tells a uniquely American story of self-invention, love, deception, and race

Passing Strange: Summary and book reviews of Passing Strange by Martha Sandweiss. 2009

I did not know then that I had embarked on something called self-invention, the making of a type of person that did not exist in the place where I was born—a place far away from New York and with a climate quite unlike the one that existed in New York.

Putting Myself Together Condé Nast 1995