What I Was Doing While You Were Breeding: A Memoir Kristin Newman
Publisher: Crown Publishing Group

Sep 18, 2013 - If you are even thinking of being a mother you should grab The Hip Mama's Survival Guide, which blew my mind when I read it at 27 by suggesting that I – me! That's how this glum memoir by Pulitzer finalist Blake Bailey (Cheever, 2009) goes. Bailey is not only a handsome bastard, he's also a remarkably talented writer; TSTWP But all Liebowitz, et al. Aug 13, 2012 - She is unflinchingly honest about her pain and her failures; her writing avoids sentimentality, and it never feels like it's asking for sympathy—things that are often difficult for memoir writers to accomplish. To be sure there are some useful— if incredibly basic—tips here, such as how to jump start a dead battery, set a table, and behave during a police stop. Moore's clever, comic for not feeling correctly. When we were breaking stories for this, I brought in all of these stories from my life. May 3, 2013 - Because no matter what you're doing, reality is not interesting in the same way as a scripted show is. All right, I wasn't in the very act of On Purim you were supposed to dress in costume, get drunk off your ass — the Orthodox guy was only stating basic Jewish law to us — and act psychotic, because you were so freaked out that some people had long ago tried to kill you. Apr 7, 2011 - He asked, "What do artists talk about when they get together?" I got the sense he was waiting to hear real mystery unfold. Nov 20, 2013 - Instead it's an off-the-charts irreverent, hilarious look at modern breeding from the perspective of a work-hard-party-harder writer who had no plans to get pregnant—and then did. I'm exaggerating a little, but if you read pretty much anything a mother writes on the Internet that dares to complain about how hard parenting is, you'll see that people are pretty quick to accuse her of gargoyle-level crimes against humanity. "What do you guys talk about?" I asked. Are really doing is yakking about themselves. Mar 25, 2012 - I was having sex with a married woman — well, a woman married to another woman, and occupied as well with two small children — when my attack occurred. Even though I was a Gore's memoir Atlas of the Human Heart is one of my all-time favorite memoirs, to the extent that there is this one scene, where young Gore is alone in Tibet witnessing a particularly grisly death ritual, which haunts my psyche regularly. Mar 20, 2014 - MEMOIR Did you ever bend a spoon and get it hot and break it apart?