Category: memoir

Book Review: ‘Never Give An Inch: Fighting for the America I Love’ by Mike Pompeo

As of this writing, former Kansas Congressman and director of the CIA and Secretary of State, Mike Pompeo, has not announced that he is in the race to be the Republican candidate for the 2024 presidential election. The memoir of his time in the Trump administration, “Never Give An Inch: Fighting for the America I…


Karla Peterson: Hungry? The New Memoir From San Diego Author Madhushree Ghosh Serves up a Banquet of Life Experiences

By Karla Peterson The San Diego Union-Tribune SAN DIEGO — One of the first times food spoke to her, Madhushree Ghosh was 7 years old and being tempted by a guava. It was the last of the three guavas Ghosh’s father had brought home to the family, and while she knew in her dutiful-daughter heart…


Book Review: A Mootiful Life

Commentary A memoir is supposed to be an accurate description of events that happened in the life of its author. However, it is not unusual to accuse the author of making up events to embellish his or her narrative. One website warned that memoirs could end up like a novel “with all the made-up parts left…


Paul Newman Memoir Left Unpublished to Come out Next Year

NEW YORK—A memoir Paul Newman left unpublished in his lifetime will come out next fall. Publisher Alfred A. Knopf announced Wednesday that the book, currently untitled, will include Newman’s thoughts on “acting, directing, boyhood, family, fame, Hollywood, Broadway, love, his first marriage, his 50-year marriage to Joanne Woodward, drinking, politics, racing, his ultimate ride to…


How a Perilous Sahara Journey Ended in Faith, Strength, and Courage

British model Kristina Hurrell dunked her head in the pool of water just steps ahead of her, frantically trying to shake out the countless insects that had dropped into her hair when she took a garden shortcut. Only upon lifting her head, did she see the nearby Brigitte Bardot, nakedly emerging from a swim. It…