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Story and memoir: truth or not?
I love to read a good memoir, so the proliferation of stories on books published as memoirs that get exposed as less than truthful is really bugging me. Most recently, 60 Minutes and other sources,...
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Two Questions from Lynda Barry
WordPress today called my attention to a 2008 post from Mikkelina’s Thoughts on Two Questions from the artist Lynda J. Barry. Having been a fan of Barry for 30 years, I’ve sung her praises here a...
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Three Cups of Tea, or Three Cups of Deceit?
If you’ve read “Three Cups Of Tea,” the bestselling memoir by Greg Mortenson and David Relin that professes to tell the true story of how Mortenson tried to climb K2, the second-highest mountain in the...
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New graphic novels
At a recent bar association function I was delighted to meet another lawyer who also loves comics and graphic novels. He was familiar with all of the writer/artists I mentioned, of course, and shares...
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Mantel’s memoir and mental health
In Hilary Mantel’s 2003 memoir, “Giving Up The Ghost,” she describes her harrowing, physically devastating, decades-long struggle with endometriosis. Doctors failed to diagnose it for years, suggesting...
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Martin Luther King Day, Father Pfleger, and stories
Getting to hear the remarkable Fr. Michael L. Pfleger speak on violence last week at a meeting of an organization of lawyers and judges to which I belong was especially timely given that today is...
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Martin Luther King Day, Father Pfleger, and stories
Getting to hear the remarkable Fr. Michael L. Pfleger speak on violence last week at a meeting of an organization of lawyers and judges to which I belong was especially timely given that today is...
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