Imogen is Reading and Watching the World: On Books, Film, Art & More
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Translated by Christopher Monocrieff I didn’t realise until after I had read it, but the “Diary of a Short-Sighted Adolescent” was written in the 1920s when Mircea Eliade was just 17, although it was not published in Romania until 1989, three years after the author’s death. The English translation folllowed much later, in 2016. It’s …
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Autobiographical novel by Martin Amis
Rock autobiography by Blondie guitarist Chris Stein
Classic memoir and travelogue dealing with the author’s year-long jaunt on a finding herself mission. And why not!
Hallucinatory 1940s coming of age tell set in upper middle class England between the wars
#20booksofsummer, book 4 Priestdaddy is an acclaimed memoir by US writer Patricia Lockwood, who is currently on the Women’s Prize shortlist for her first novel, No-one Is Talking About This, and whose tweets come imbued with the aura of legend. This, her first book, was published in 2017, and has a particularly random cover in …
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Deborah Levy’s wonderful work of almost-memoir, ‘Real Estate’
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