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Classics, Strunk and White style.
“The year I turned ninety, I wanted to give myself the gift of a night of wild love with an adolescent virgin.” And other surreal opening lines.
Fans rally around San Francisco’s beloved (and endangered) Adobe Books.
“How many other books had I been fooling myself about?” When you think you’ve read books ... but you haven’t.
Get the knives out: any discussion of the best food memoirs is sure to be contentious.