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Steve's Posts from the Open Letters Monthly Archive

Steve Donoghue’s posts from the original Open Letters Monthly Archives.

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March 12, 2015

Book Review: I Hate Myselfie

March 12, 2015/ Steve Donoghue

Wildly popular YouTube phenomenon Shane Dawson now has a BOOK!

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i hate myselfie, March 2015, memoir, open letters weekly 2015, shane dawson, youtube
February 19, 2014

Book Review: Dancing Fish and Ammonites

February 19, 2014/ Steve Donoghue

Long-time novelist Penelope Lively turns 80 - and turns to memoir-writing

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dancing fish and ammonites, February 2014, memoir, open letters weekly, penelope lively
December 08, 2013

Book Review: My Mistake

December 08, 2013/ Steve Donoghue

A life-long writer and editor looks back on his life

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2013, daniel menaker, December 2013, memoir, my mistake, open letters weekly
April 28, 2013

Book Review: A California Childhood

April 28, 2013/ Steve Donoghue

The Hollywood actor and star of "Howl" produces a heavily-illustrated book of snippets and short stories, for reasons that are either unclear or all too clear, depending on whose Twitter you follow

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a california childhood, April 2013, fiction, James Franco, memoir
October 17, 2012

Book Review: Joseph Anton

October 17, 2012/ Steve Donoghue

The great novelist tells the beguiling story of the man he became in order to escape a death sentence

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October 17, 2012/ Steve Donoghue/
joseph anton, memoir, Nonfiction, October 2012, Salman Rushdie
May 11, 2012

Book Review: Midstream

May 11, 2012/ Steve Donoghue

The posthumous memoir of a beloved Southern writer

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May 11, 2012/ Steve Donoghue/
anne tyler, May 2012, memoir, midstream, reynolds price
February 11, 2012

Classics Reissued: What's to Become of the Boy?

February 11, 2012/ Steve Donoghue

A pretty new reprint of the great German writers' memoir of boyhood under the Nazis in Cologne.

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February 11, 2012/ Steve Donoghue/
February 2012, heinrich boll, leila vennewitz, Melville House, memoir, nazi germany, what's to become of the boy
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