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There's Still No Word for 'Memoir' in German Publishing

There's Still No Word for 'Memoir' in German Publishing

The Buchpreis, the Book Blogger, and Other Hot Topics Heading to Frankfurt...

By Tara Bray Smith | October 17, 2016

How I Came to Love Bob Dylan

How I Came to Love Bob Dylan

From Scratchy Records to Dubious (Trash-Digging) Sightings

By Patrick Ryan | October 14, 2016

Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o: The College Years

Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o: The College Years

"I was benefiting from a history that had come to negate my history"

By Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o | October 12, 2016

Growing Up Under the Russians

Growing Up Under the Russians

Durs Grünbein Remembers a Childhood Under Occupation

By Durs Grünbein | October 12, 2016

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

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

Julia Alvarez Remembers the Author of The Women of Brewster Place

By Julia Alvarez | October 5, 2016

To Leave Your Mother Tongue is to Love It More

To Leave Your Mother Tongue is to Love It More

Ewa Hryniewicz-Yarbrough on Her Mother Tongue and Another

By Ewa Hryniewicz-Yarbrough | October 4, 2016

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How My Grandfather Went From the Pulitzer Prize to Complete Obscurity

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Finding a Forgotten Book On Surviving the Holocaust

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Birding While Black

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Me and JT LeRoy: On Anonymity and Queer Art

Szilvia Molnar Remembers the Books That Helped Her Escape

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Between Life and Death

Between Life and Death

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On the Celibate Love Affair of Nora Ephron and Mike Nichols

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Richard Cohen Remembers a Power Couple That Never Was

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Lauren Collins Really Didn't Want to Write a Memoir

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When News of a Suicide Comes During Memoir Class

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Slow Days, Fast Company

Slow Days, Fast Company

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