Who Do You Think You Are?

A Memoir by Alyse Myers

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Published Essay
City Section/The New York Times
"Her Hard-Knock Life"
September 28, 2008
By Alyse Myers

"In 1957, when I was 1 and my mother was pregnant with my middle sister, my parents moved from a tenement on the Lower East Side to a one-bedroom apartment in Ravenswood Houses, a public housing project in Long Island City, Queens." more...

Reading and Signing
Miami Book Fair International
401 N.E. Second Ave.
Suite 4102 (Building 4, 1st Floor)
Miami, FL
(305) 237-3258
November 15-16
more...

Fortune.com
July 2008

Fortune editor-at-large Patricia Sellers writes about my book here...

Radio Interview
May 13, 2008
The Joan Hamburg Show/WOR-AM/New York. Radio host Joan Hamburg and co-host Donna Hanover interview Alyse about her new book, “Who Do You Think You Are.” podcast (archive: May 13, 2008)...

Published Article
Lives Column/The New York Times Magazine 
"How I Met My Mother"
May 11, 2008
By Alyse Myers

"For much of our life together, my mother and I hated each other. The way I saw it, I spent most of my childhood fighting with her — or trying to get away from her bitterness, her unhappiness and her endless smoking. As a teenager, I learned how to defend myself with words that were designed to hurt and could never be taken back. In return, she vowed that one day I would have a daughter who would feel the way about me that I felt about her." more...