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Crazy love became heartbreak when I found out that Edward was in love with another guy instead of me.
By Catherine Davis
June 25, 2001
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Mary Karr recalls an age when children seek out the very trouble their parents hope they will avoid.
By Mary Karr
May 21, 2001
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Pretend someone stole your rattle and draw out that last syllable in a long "whaa."
By Stephen J. Lyons
May 9, 2001
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When good girls grow up to be bad girls, their mothers indulge in maternal hysteria. The lucky moms then get book contracts.
By Amy Benfer
March 29, 2001
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My first love tracks me down and my first life flashes before my eyes.
By Eve Parnell
March 7, 2001
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"Platonic Sex" is a bestseller among Asian teens.
By Jack Boulware
February 9, 2001
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Anthony Bourdain remembers the sexy, voyeuristic moment he decided to become a chef.
By Anthony Bourdain
December 20, 2000
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A memoirist who survived a childhood of neglect and catastrophe reinhabits her younger self, with powerful and harrowing results.
By Brigitte Frase
December 14, 2000
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A memoirist tells the harrowing story of his teenage brother's decline into the unthinkable horror of schizophrenia -- but is that enough?
By Laura Morgan Green
November 28, 2000
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A mother and daughter reunite only to face permanent separation.
By Campbell Armstrong
November 13, 2000
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What big brown cigarettes you have!
By Martin F. Downs
October 23, 2000
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In a passage from her book "Infidelity," the author remembers watching her father work his magic.
By Ann Pearlman
October 9, 2000
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October 5, 2000
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The Boy with the Thorn in his Side
By Keith Fleming
October 5, 2000
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The passionate, category-defying journalist levels her tough gaze on her own journey from the ghetto to Harvard Law School and beyond.
By Maggie Jones
October 3, 2000
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Though she didn't start the memoir craze, Mary Karr feeds the frenzy with "Cherry."
By Lisa Zeidner
September 25, 2000
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Taking off your clothes may be demeaning, but it makes you feel like a queen. Second of two parts.
By Sheila Hageman
August 10, 2000
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Stung by a pan in the New York Times, an "illness memoirist" defends her art.
By Lauren Slater
July 5, 2000
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Relatives say Martin Amis' new memoir exploits his murdered cousin, and they're right -- but not in the way they think.
By Graham Joyce
June 29, 2000
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Does writing a memoir give people carte blanche to analyze your life?
By Lori Gottlieb
June 16, 2000
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Two memoirists look back on their many years of psychotherapy -- and what they see ain't pretty.
By Laura Miller
June 14, 2000
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An immigrant's brutal and disturbing memoir of abuse at the hands of fundamentalist parents and a sadistic husband.
By Brigitte Frase
May 17, 2000
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A moment of passion before she left to become a soldier: An excerpt from "Erogenous Zones: An Anthology of Sex Abroad."
By Laurie Lee
May 13, 2000
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Ooooh! That's gotta hurt! Shawna Kenney cracks the whip and gets paid for the pain of writing a memoir.
By Stephen Lemons
April 20, 2000
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The novelist's memoir is an elegy to vanishing breeds -- like novelists.
By Jonathan Miles
November 29, 1999
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Cherry
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Mommy's little monster
Lost and found
Kitchen god
"I hope you have a good life"
My contribution to granny lit
The lone hunter
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Fresh fruit
My life as a stripper
One nation, under the weather
Working-class monster
But enough about me
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