THE PROBLEM WITH MEMOIR I am the type of person who doesn't want to be a member of any club that will have me. It's perverse and a quality that doesn't usually serve me well. But I'm also a bulldog: when someone advises me not to do something that I believe in, I'm determined to get it done.
Thus I present you with this article from the NYTimes, "The Problem with Memoir," concerning boring, unnecessary, fatuous, poorly written memoirs. Nota bene.
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/30/books/review/Genzlinger-t.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0