Ben Yagoda's Books
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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...
Helium, January 31, 2009
...Book Review of THE SOUND ON THE PAGE: Great Writers Talk about Style and Voice in Writing By Ben Yagoda 2004, HarperCollins AN INTERESTING READ The Sound on the Page, by Ben Yagoda, is a fascinating look at the role of style in writing. Whether you are a...
Globe and Mail, January 28, 2009
...to publish a tribute to Mr. Updike and a collection of his work in next week's issue. Ben Yagoda, the author of About Town: The New Yorker and the World It Made, a history of the magazine published in 2000, recalled yesterday that other writers who...
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,...
