Well, some of them do. Consider "Slaves in the Family" and such. Of course, that's a serious history and not an attention getting device. Ooops, I mean a memoir.
But there is a certain flavor of aspiring memoir writing here in the Cities that plays on these same scenarios over and over again. It get grants, it gets the prestigious reading spots and in short, is rewarded up the wazoo even when it's riffing on things people have done sixty times before. Stupid, questionable at best and very tiresome.