The Art of Time in Memoir

In The Art of Time in Memoir, critic, editor, and memoirist Sven Birkerts examines the human impulse to write about the self. "Memoir is, for better and often for worse, the genre of our times," Birkerts writes. But what makes one memoir memorable and another self-serving? What determines the difference

Memoir Ethics: Good Lives and the Virtues is a philosophical study of moral themes in memoirs. It explores how memoirists present and defend perspectives on good lives. Particular attention is paid to the interplay of the virtues, including their interplay with additional (nonmoral) types of values in good lives. More

Books about Reveries, or Memoirs upon the Art of War ... With copper-plates. To which are added some original letters, upon various military subjects, wrote by the Count ..., never before made publick: together with his reflections upon the propagation of the human species. Translated from the French by Sir

The New York Times bestselling author of State of Wonder, Run, and Bel Canto creates a resonant portrait of a life in this collection of writings on love, friendship, work, and art. "The tricky thing about being a writer, or about being any kind of artist, is that in addition

Taking family, friends and servants as her subjects, Woolf presents a series of impressions of the people around her. And as she describes their lives - including a piece on her nephew Julian Bell, and sketches on Lady Ottoline Morrell and Lady Strachey - she also reveals her attitudes -