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In the New Yorker...
Front-Ranger:
--- Quote from: latjoreme on September 02, 2021, 12:08:53 pm ---The Tattered Cover is still there, I hope??
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Yes, that's where I went. It has changed hands recently, so everybody is crossing their fingers that it will continue its tradition of excellence.
--- Quote from: latjoreme on September 02, 2021, 12:08:53 pm ---I wonder what she considers the difference between autobiography and memoir. Memoirs are among my favorite genres. I don't think of them as self-absorbed; the good ones read like novels that happen to be about real people and their real lives.
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I think of memoirs as looking back at a life and having perspective. An autobiography I think of as more of a diary.
serious crayons:
--- Quote from: Front-Ranger on September 02, 2021, 12:36:58 pm ---I think of memoirs as looking back at a life and having perspective. An autobiography I think of as more of a diary.
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That makes sense. An autobiography is a full historical account, which best befits a major public figure. I'm trying to think of what ones I've read; I rarely even read biographies. Whereas the subject of a memoir doesn't need to be famous, as it's all about the writing and the particular experience.
Glad the TC is OK for now!
Jeff Wrangler:
--- Quote from: serious crayons on September 02, 2021, 03:23:03 pm ---Glad the TC is OK for now!
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Me, too, though Heaven only knows if I'll ever get there again. ???
serious crayons:
Those really famous bookstores are cool. Powell's in Portland, Prairie Lights in Iowa City, Shakespeare & Co. in NYC. Also City Lights in San Francisco (which I haven't been to).
Minneapolis has bookstores but never the equivalent aside from maybe Louise Erdrich's Birchbark Books. Which I've been to only once -- when interviewing Louise.
Front-Ranger:
Last year, I went to Shakespeare and Company in Paris, just across the Seine from Notre Dame. It was a fun place but I was slightly disappointed because I was hunting for books in French for my grandchildren. All their books are in English! Why go to Paris and buy books in English? At a different bookstore, I got a book on medieval France for my older grandson, a book on ballet for my granddaughter, and a book called "Ou est Charlie?" (exactly like "Where's Waldo?") for my grandson Charile.
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