• Memoir

    Excerpts

    The Many Ways in Which the Heart Can Break

    By Aminatta Forna  November 8, 2016
    Essay

    Fascism and Its Echoes, and the Othering of the Mentally Ill

    By Holly Muller  November 7, 2016
    Essay

    The Novel My Wife Will Never Read

    By Eugene Mirabelli  November 4, 2016
    Excerpts

    How I Helped Tell a Soldier’s Story

    By Jane Bernstein  October 28, 2016
    Excerpts

    Stop Stereotyping Lexicographers!

    By John Simpson  October 24, 2016
    Excerpts

    Ghost Songs

    By Lit Hub Excerpts  October 19, 2016
    Essay

    Postcards to a Younger, Much Better Novelist

    By Derek Palacio  October 17, 2016
    Essay

    There’s Still No Word for ‘Memoir’ in German Publishing

    By Tara Bray Smith  October 17, 2016
    Essay

    How I Came to Love Bob Dylan

    By Patrick Ryan  October 14, 2016
    Excerpts

    Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o: The College Years

    By Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o  October 12, 2016
    Essay

    Growing Up Under the Russians

    By Durs Grünbein  October 12, 2016
    In Memoriam

    Gloria Naylor: Mama Day, Mama Night, Bigger than Life

    By Julia Alvarez  October 5, 2016
    Essay

    To Leave Your Mother Tongue is to Love It More

    By Ewa Hryniewicz-Yarbrough  October 4, 2016
    Essay

    How My Grandfather Went From the Pulitzer Prize to Complete Obscurity

    By Tom Shroder  October 4, 2016
    Essay

    Finding a Forgotten Book On Surviving the Holocaust

    By P.N. Singer  September 30, 2016
    Excerpts

    Birding While Black

    By J. Drew Lanham  September 22, 2016
    Essay

    Me and JT LeRoy: On Anonymity and Queer Art

    By Szilvia Molnar  September 15, 2016
    Excerpts

    Between Life and Death

    By Lit Hub Excerpts  September 14, 2016
    Biography

    On the Celibate Love Affair of Nora Ephron and Mike Nichols

    By Richard Cohen  September 12, 2016
    Excerpts

    Swimming in the Sink

    By Lit Hub Excerpts  September 8, 2016
    Conversations

    Lauren Collins Really Didn’t Want to Write a Memoir

    By Stephanie LaCava  September 8, 2016
    Essay

    When News of a Suicide Comes During Memoir Class

    By Jamie-Lee Josselyn  September 8, 2016
    Excerpts

    Slow Days, Fast Company

    By Lit Hub Excerpts  August 29, 2016
    Excerpts

    Reading D.H. Lawrence on a Remote Swedish Island

    By Fredrik Sjöberg  August 29, 2016
    Excerpts

    Treyf: My Life as an Unorthodox Outlaw

    By Lit Hub Excerpts  August 17, 2016
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