Hacker News with Generative AI: Memoir

The Attraction of Homelessness (2009) (nytimes.com)
FOR nearly 13 years between 1994 and 2007, I wandered the streets of New York, a nomad in the town where I was born in 1949.

Homelessness, Personal Essay, Social Commentary, Memoir

13 points by bookofjoe 12 days ago | 5 comments

Remembering Nan Shepherd (lrb.co.uk)
In the months following my parents’ deaths, I decided to buy a flatbed scanner as a partial fix for the drifts of paper they had accumulated after sixty years in the same house – receipts, letters, photographs, notes and diaries.

Writing, Memoir, Loss, Personal Essays

11 points by lermontov 31 days ago | 4 comments

Typesetting and printing a family memoir (2017) (teamten.com)
In the 1980s, my great-uncle, André Klat, wrote his memoirs on a typewriter.

Typesetting, Printing, Memoir, Family History

48 points by cxr 99 days ago | 13 comments

Early Scenes: Remembering a Childhood in the South Bronx (newyorker.com)

Childhood, New York, South Bronx, Memoir

11 points by benbreen 179 days ago | 2 comments