Digging up gems - and skeletons: the critic Juan Vidal on writing memoir
(LA Times Television)

I was on the phone with my uncle, a doorman in Queens, when our conversation hit an awkward pause, the kind in which one person is left waiting on the other to reveal the punchline. I´d called him from my home in Atlanta, where I´d recently moved via Miami to finish a book. `Well?` I asked, expectant....