memoirs

It’s the completion of a book trilogy — what Specktor refers to as a “triptych” — two memoirs and a novel about L.A. and the people who have journeyed there in search of the American dream.

In his memoirs, Vargas Llosa describes his father as a terse man prone to “fits of rage.”

The late journalist and muckraker’s most famous book has inspired a whole subgenre of stunt memoirs.

“In his letters, he envisioned a safer future, and in his memoirs he invented a safer past,” Dunthorne writes, inching his way from condemnation to empathy.

On Tuesday she released the cover and title of her memoirs, realising her lifelong dream of becoming an author.