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New York Times, March 10, 2010
...crucial years he played a major role in solidifying the magazine’s nonfiction style — “the choreography,” as Ben Yagoda describes it in “About Town,” his history of The New Yorker, “of the extraordinary number of facts the writer had...
New York Times, March 6, 2010
...crucial years he played a major role in solidifying the magazine’s nonfiction style — “the choreography,” as Ben Yagoda describes it in “About Town,” his history of The New Yorker, “of the extraordinary number of facts the writer had...
Huffington Post, February 9, 2010
...now: neither Lincoln nor Wilson penned one. "The 'campaign biography/autobiography' has been around for a while," says Ben Yagoda, author of the new book Memoir: A History. "But it has definitely picked up in the last couple of decades, so that nowadays...
New York Times, January 14, 2010
...but for a well-reviewed book this one is really a steal! And this is a delight. Well, Junnar.” Ben Yagoda is a professor of English at the University of Delaware and the author of “Memoir: A History.” He blogs at campuscomments.wordpress.com. Next...
Philly.com, January 11, 2010
...MemoirA HistoryBy Ben Yagoda Riverhead Books. 291 pp. $25.95 Reviewed by Helen Epstein I was looking forward to reading a history of memoir. It's such a rich history, its roots tangled...
Huffington Post, December 29, 2009
...word he settled on to describe "Last Words" was "sortabiography." A comedian's sortabiography. "Memoir: A History", Ben Yagoda San Francisco Chronicle There is nothing easier to poke fun at than people vain enough to write books about themselves. ...
Myrtle Beach Sun News, December 20, 2009
...Angela's Ashes' [by Frank McCourt] were the key books that ushered in this memoir boom," says Ben Yagoda, the Swarthmore writer who just published a study of the genre, "Memoir: A History." "Those two books were hugely successful, both commercially and...
Baltimore Sun, December 6, 2009
...and they arrive regularly, our mounting suspicion having done little to quench our appetite for the form. As Ben Yagoda ably demonstrates in his spirited "Memoir: A History," the difficulty of defining and identifying "the truth" certainly didn't begin...
Dallas Morning News, November 29, 2009
...In the 1920s, fiction outsold nonfiction 4-to-1; in the 1960s, the ratio was reversed. Ben Yagoda charts the genre of memoir-autobiography over its 2,000-year history to make sense of that change. He begins with Julius Caesar and moves through St....
Washington Post, November 29, 2009
...Ben Yagoda Buy New $17.13 Privacy Information MEMOIR A History By Ben Yagoda Riverhead. 291 pp. $25.95 Back in the 1960s and '70s, when my career as a book...
Washington Post, November 25, 2009
...MEMOIR A History By Ben Yagoda Riverhead. 291 pp. $25.95 Back in the 1960s and '70s, when my career as a book reviewer was young, I was elated by a sudden and wholly unexpected...
USA Today, November 24, 2009
...'We live in an age of memoir,' says Ben Yagoda, who traces their development in his new book, Memoir: A History. Yagoda names 'the five greatest memoirs you've probably never heard of.' "Roughing It by Mark Twain (1872...
Delaware Online, November 15, 2009
...this topic, moderators will review all reader comments prior to publication. Special to The Journal/EMILY VARISCO UD professor Ben Yagoda, whose new book is 'Memoir: A History,' says of the genre: 'It all goes back to the old cliche: Write what you...
Pittsburgh Tribune Review, November 15, 2009
...mediocre. Quality is rare." In "Memoir: A History" (Riverhead, $25.95), to be published next week, author Ben Yagoda cites "The Liars' Club," along with "This Boy's Life" by Tobias Wolff, as exceptional memoirs: "Literature of the first order ......
Argus Leader, November 8, 2009
...country is actively engaged in writing or reading a memoir. The rest have it on their to-do lists. Ben Yagoda, author of the new 'Memoir: A History,' concurs. 'I worked on the book for three years, and the whole time, I kept expecting it to die down a bit...
Medford Mail Tribune, November 8, 2009
...country is actively engaged in writing or reading a memoir. The rest have it on their to-do lists. Ben Yagoda, author of the new 'Memoir: A History' (Riverhead Books) concurs. 'I worked on the book for three years, and the whole time I kept expecting it...
InSing.com, November 4, 2009
...living an odd life for a year and even animals racing to share their lives with others. Writer Ben Yagoda, a journalism professor from the University of Delaware who has just published "Memoir: A History", said such candour was not always the case in...
Philly.com, November 4, 2009
...country is actively engaged in writing or reading a memoir. The rest have it on their to-do lists. Ben Yagoda, author of the new Memoir: A History (Riverhead Books) concurs. "I worked on the book for three years, and the whole time I kept expecting to...
Winona Daily News, November 3, 2009
...Tony Curtis and Leslie Caron, David Letterman sideman Paul Shaffer and rock stars Steven Tyler and Clarence Clemons. Ben Yagoda considers the whole genre in 'Memoir: A History.' Yagoda, whose previous books include biographies of Will Rogers and The New...
Buffalo News, September 13, 2009
...Tony Curtis and Leslie Caron, David Letterman sideman Paul Shaffer and rock stars Steven Tyler and Clarence Clemons. Ben Yagoda considers the whole genre in ?Memoir: A History.? Yagoda, whose previous books include biographies of Will Rogers and The...
Lower Hudson Online, September 1, 2009
...Tony Curtis and Leslie Caron, David Letterman sideman Paul Shaffer and rock stars Steven Tyler and Clarence Clemons. Ben Yagoda considers the whole genre in 'Memoir: A History' (Nov. 12). Yagoda, whose previous books include biographies of Will Rogers...
Miami Herald, August 30, 2009
...Tony Curtis and Leslie Caron, David Letterman sideman Paul Shaffer and rock stars Steven Tyler and Clarence Clemons. Ben Yagoda considers the whole genre in Memoir: A History. Yagoda, whose previous books include biographies of Will Rogers and a history...
Daily Gleaner, August 29, 2009
...Tony Curtis and Leslie Caron, David Letterman sideman Paul Shaffer and rock stars Steven Tyler and Clarence Clemons. Ben Yagoda considers the whole genre in Memoir: A History. Yagoda, whose previous books include biographies of Will Rogers and The New...
Providence Journal, August 29, 2009
...Tony Curtis and Leslie Caron, David Letterman sideman Paul Shaffer and rock stars Steven Tyler and Clarence Clemons. Ben Yagoda considers the whole genre in Memoir: A History. Yagoda, whose previous books include biographies of Will Rogers and The New...
Daily News Journal, August 28, 2009
...Leslie Caron, David Letterman sideman Paul Shaffer and rock stars Steven Tyler and Clarence Clemons. (4 of 4) Ben Yagoda considers the whole genre in 'Memoir: A History.' Yagoda, whose previous books include biographies of Will Rogers and The New Yorker...
Edmonton Sun, August 26, 2009
...Tony Curtis and Leslie Caron, David Letterman sideman Paul Shaffer and rock stars Steven Tyler and Clarence Clemons. Ben Yagoda considers the whole genre in ?Memoir: A History.? Yagoda, whose previous books include biographies of Will Rogers and The...
CJOB 68, August 26, 2009
...Tony Curtis and Leslie Caron, David Letterman sideman Paul Shaffer and rock stars Steven Tyler and Clarence Clemons. Ben Yagoda considers the whole genre in 'Memoir: A History.' Yagoda, whose previous books include biographies of Will Rogers and The New...
Am1220.ca, August 26, 2009
...Tony Curtis and Leslie Caron, David Letterman sideman Paul Shaffer and rock stars Steven Tyler and Clarence Clemons. Ben Yagoda considers the whole genre in 'Memoir: A History.' Yagoda, whose previous books include biographies of Will Rogers and The New...
Boston Globe, August 24, 2009
...Tony Curtis and Leslie Caron, David Letterman sideman Paul Shaffer and rock stars Steven Tyler and Clarence Clemons. Ben Yagoda considers the whole genre in 'Memoir: A History.' Yagoda, whose previous books include biographies of Will Rogers and The New...
New York Times, July 26, 2009
...Wolff who in 1989 set the template for the contemporary literary memoir with This Boys Life, according to Ben Yagoda, a professor at the University of Delaware and the author of a coming history of the memoir. In the 19th and early-20th century, books of...
Suite101.com, May 13, 2009
...pops up frequently in inquiries from readers of newspaper columns on English usage. When Chandra Levy Went Missing Ben Yagoda, writing in the ?Chronicle of Higher Education,? traced the expression?s American popularity to the disappearance of...
Steve Goddard's History Wire, December 18, 2009
...Memoir -- A History by Ben Yagoda, Riverhead '09, $25.95, 291 pages, ISBN #159448886X. Index, a note on sources, unillustrated. Much has been written about the recent spate of published memoirs, as if the genre...
Original Content, November 16, 2009
...Took Over the World at Salon in which Laura Miller begins her article on Memoir: A History by Ben Yagoda with the question "Has the memoir become the "central form" of our culture, as Ben Yagoda insists in his breezy new consideration of the form,...
MyAppleMenu Reader, November 15, 2009
...Laura Miller, SalonHas the memoir become the "central form" of our culture, as Ben Yagoda insists in his breezy new consideration of the form, "Memoir: A History"? Do I detect hackles rising from coast to coast at the mere suggestion?Tweet...
Hermenautic Circle blog, November 5, 2009
...Ben Yagoda has a new book out, with the nice title "Memoir: A History." Covering it, the Philadelphia Inquirer states : The emphasis on memoir is so strong that autobiography, history...
Publishing in the 21st Century, September 28, 2009
...or that Herman Melville's Moby Dick was also known as The Whale ?" Author and English professor Ben Yagoda agrees with McCrum. In 2005 he published an article on the subject for the New York Times Book Review section. "Nobody really notices subtitles,"...
What's on Tumblr?, April 23, 2009
...what this group wants to hear is antithetical to what scholars of this subject want to say. — Ben Yagoda, In Defense of Common English . The cathartic rants on this subject that my friends have endured could fill a book. (I would write that book,...
