Magical Memoir Moments

Happy Birthday, Bill Moyers! Eighty Years Young

By Shirley Showalter | June 3, 2014

I first met Bill Moyers while working at The Fetzer Institute, which helped to sponsor Bill Moyers Journal. What a pleasure! We’ve stayed friends even after the Journal went off the air. I’ve been watching Moyers & Company online. But last week, Stuart and I stopped in to see Bill and Judith at their offices…

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John Lithgow's New Memoir — Drama: An Actor's Education

By Shirley Showalter | October 6, 2011

Sometimes a memoir knocks you over even before you read all of it. Such is the case with John Lithgow’s Drama: An Actor’s Education. I’ve read about it, listened to the author, and read a chapter of it at the Diane Rehm Show website. Lithgow, who lives in New York, has made the rounds of the…

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