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Ruthless: A Memoir Jerry Heller
Publisher: Gallery Books

Is anyone thirsty for an me to why Buddhists shouldn't write memoirs–at least not their own. He wrote a lot of it in the middle of the night, sleep-deprived and high on caffeine and then was ruthless around editing. One book reviewer had faulted Schwalbe for not being more ruthless in this memoir of a mother and son's relationship in the last years of her life (yes, she did live much longer than expected). Achebe's memoir is filled with sadness - sadness at the deaths of so many of his fellow countrymen and sadness too at the fate that has befallen Nigeria. That's not to say there are no ethics to the memoir or that we are allowed by the genre's necessary disclosures to be cavalier or cruel. Walking the Line: Privacy in Memoir/Creative Non-Fiction There is a way to do this — to keep it centered somehow, ever centered on your own lens — and requires a kind of ruthless self-reflection that I'm still working on. Brennan is best known as the author of the contemporary classics, The Ragamuffin Gospel, Abba's Child, Ruthless Trust, The Importance of Being Foolish, Patched Together, and The Furious Longing of God. You need to be honest to and with your material. The tabloids are ruthless and somehow get access to private, for-Philip's-eyes-only-glamour-photos. Advice on writing memoir, and specifically a travel memoir. Um, Prince Philip, in case you were wondering. Buddhism is all about living in the present moment, which kind of negates the whole purpose of the memoir, which about reliving your past, recounting it in vivid detail and reflecting on it in profound and preposterous ways. As a writer of memoir, you need to be ruthless — with yourself, and with others. Sammy Davis Jr.'s sex romps, Michael Jackson's ruthlessness: Paul Anka's memoir is an explosive glimpse of the stars he knew and loved.