Memoir Aficionados Prints

"Memoir, Chapter 1. At times, I think I may have never fully gotten over the death of my parents..."

King Henry and his Cheshire bride

Gay Times...

Gunter Grass

Stephen Spender.

I figured out how we can pay for the kids' college tuitions. Do tell. I'm going to leave for a year of self-discovery, which I will chronicle in a best-selling memoir. Oh, but

Dickens & Tolstoy Walk into a Bar: " . . . so, to make a short story long . . . "

'Don't worry, you're safe. I started my diet today.'

The Life and Times of Miley Cyrus

"Only one pailful? Did they have water restrictions like we do?"

"You think two weeks in isolation is hard?"

'He was a great writer'

Tequila Mockingbird

Noel Coward.

Display of political memoirs books categorized as: 'Non-fiction,' 'Fiction,' and 'Pure Fantasy'.

'He speaks for our entire generation. Pity he's such a bore...'

Sherlock Holmes Museum: No Hounds.

Ironing Punctuation

"Wait, wait, back up, back up. Who the #!@! is George Orwell?"

Frontispiece to 'Dombey and Son'

My Literary Influences

'Oh no! Is this a blogger I saw before me?'

'Look mum and dad! They let me keep my appendix!' - A young book excitedly showing off his appendix to his arriving parents.

'Excellent job, Fenwick, especially the part where you employ Magic Realism to fudge third-quarter earnings!'

'What? You used a Welshman? The recipe specifically calls for a scot!'

Monument in the park for Squirrel Feeder

Library

A vicar is reading 'The Great Begatsby' written by Abraham.

"You have to pick the places you don't walk away from."—Joan Didion, Penny, Joan Didion.

'I don't know whether to put it in for the Turner Prize or go for the Poet Laureate.'

Thomas Keneally

"Well, the falcon cannot hear the falconer, but the rough beast found a piece of string so I don't know where that leaves us."

'He tells me there's one chapter of his memoir titled, 'My Likeable Master'.'

'Ignore them, Charlie. They're nothing but philistines. I liked your poetry, truly I did!'

"Well, Mr. Goddam Fancy-Pants Small-Town-Expose hot shot! What makes you think we don't all have lusty, kiss-and-tell memoirs boiling away inside us?"