Monthly Archives: May 2010

What Is a Ghostwriter?

Posted on 23 May 2010 by

[Los Angeles Times] In today’s Los Angeles Times, I’ve got an op-ed that is, among other things, a quasi-defense of political ghostwriting. I start with an anecdote about Eleanor Roosevelt and her first lady memoir This I Remember (1949), and one … Continue reading →

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“Because there isn’t a woman in the country who isn’t perishing to know what it’s really like to be the wife of an American president today”

Posted on 21 May 2010 by

[New York Times] In this Sunday’s New York Times Book Review, I’ve got an essay on the history of the first lady memoir. (It’s already online.) Laura Bush’s Spoken from the Heart gives us 12 such books,[1] and a few are … Continue reading →

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Keeping Pace

Posted on 20 May 2010 by

This weekend, I’ve got a couple of new essays related to my presidents-and-their-books project coming out. With them finished, I’ve been catching up on some reading, and I can now highly recommend Political Memoir: Essays on the Politics of Memory (1994), … Continue reading →

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Details’ 1996 Profile of David Foster Wallace

Posted on 5 May 2010 by

I bought David Lipsky’s Although Of Course You End Up Becoming Yourself: A Road Trip with David Foster Wallace the day it came out—bought it at 9:02 a.m., in fact. Like a lot of readers, I found there to be too … Continue reading →

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