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The article discusses the way in which U.S. Presidential candidate Barack Obama has reflected about the years he lived in New York City during the 1980s in his memoir "Dreams From My Father." According to the article, Obama only speaks about certain aspects of living in New York City. Aspects of Obama's life which are discussed and not discussed in the book are mentioned.

Bernard Gersten, whose retirement as executive producer of Lincoln Center Theater was announced on Monday, said on Tuesday that he would write a memoir of his 67 years in theater. Mr. Gersten, who turned 89 in January, is one of the last titans of the 1970s and '80s, when nonprofit theaters emerged as artistic and financial rivals to commercial Broadway. Acclaimed hits like ''A Chorus Line'' opened at the Public Theater in 1975 and then ran on Broadway for 15 years. Mr. Gersten helped create Lincoln Center Theater in 1985 after a revolving door of companies had struggled for two decades to mount shows at the Vivian Beaumont Theater on the Lincoln Center campus. Before moving uptown Mr. Gersten helped to run the Public in the East Village from 1954 until 1978. ''I stayed as long as Lincoln Center Theater would have me, and I would have stayed longer, but the timing is appropriate,'' Mr. Gersten said. He is among the highest paid executives in American nonprofit theater; in 2010, according to the latest available tax records, he was paid $506,417, and he will receive a payout of $450,000 in deferred compensation upon leaving. Lincoln Center Theater will not appoint a successor to Mr. Gersten; his duties will be shared among executives including Andre Bishop, the artistic director, and Adam Siegel, the managing director. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Christine C. Quinn is taking a step more commonly associated with presidential campaigns than mayoral ones: She is writing a pre-election memoir. Ms. Quinn, the speaker of the New York City Council and a front-runner among the expected candidates for mayor, is writing a book about her childhood, her coming to terms with her sexuality and her ascent in New York politics, her publisher, William Morrow and Company, said on Wednesday. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

A VOICE FROM OLD NEW YORK A Memoir of My Youth [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

An independent publisher has agreed to publish a novel based on a movie screenplay that was, in turn, adapted from the falsified Holocaust memoir ''Angel at the Fence.'' In December Berkley Books canceled the publication of the memoir, in which Herman Rosenblat wrote that he met his future wife, Roma, while he was a prisoner at a concentration camp in Germany. Several scholars pointed out that details of Mr. Rosenblat's story could not have been true. Film rights for the memoir were sold to Atlantic Overseas Pictures, which commissioned a script. York House Press, a publisher based in White Plains, said it had made a deal for a novel adapted from that script. A publication date was not announced. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]