Literary Hub » Memoir

When is a ghostwriter too famous to be a ghostwriter?

When is a ghostwriter too famous to be a ghostwriter?

By Jonny Diamond | January 25, 2023

Kathryn Ma on Growing Up a Librarian’s Daughter

Kathryn Ma on Growing Up a Librarian’s Daughter

“Say the word ‘library,’ say the word ‘books,’ and I feel my mother close.”

By Kathryn Ma | January 25, 2023

Sheep Shearing in the 21st Century: Craft or Career?

Sheep Shearing in the 21st Century: Craft or Career?

Peggy Orenstein on the Challenges and Changes to Contemporary Agricultural Work

By Peggy Orenstein | January 24, 2023

A Modernist’s Modernist: On the Brilliance—and Influence—of Katherine Mansfield

A Modernist’s Modernist: On the Brilliance—and Influence—of Katherine Mansfield

“Thinking about Mansfield’s work makes me understand again how literature is never just a story.”

By Kirsty Gunn | January 23, 2023

Hot, Cute, and a Little Bit Punk: Mina Seçkin on Exploring the World of Pokémon

Hot, Cute, and a Little Bit Punk: Mina Seçkin on Exploring the World of Pokémon

When I’m Not Writing, a Series About Writers and Their Hobbies

By Mina Seçkin | January 23, 2023

Writing Fiction Is a Way to Ensure My Ancestors’ Stories Are Remembered

Writing Fiction Is a Way to Ensure My Ancestors’ Stories Are Remembered

Jamila Minnicks on Finding Inspirations in Her Family’s Triumphs—Not Only Their Traumas

By Jamila Minnicks | January 23, 2023

Best Reviewed
Books of the Week

A Poisoned Reality: Jared Yates Sexton on Growing up with Conspiracy Theories and End-Times Prophecy

By Jared Yates Sexton | January 20, 2023

Is Prince Harry going to write THREE MORE BOOKS?!

By Jonny Diamond | January 18, 2023

How Janet Malcolm Created Her Own Personal Archive

By Eve Sneider | January 18, 2023

Satyrs and Poets and Jazzmen and Muses: Anne Waldman on Life at Bennington in the Early 1960s

Satyrs and Poets and Jazzmen and Muses: Anne Waldman on Life at Bennington in the Early 1960s

“I was competitive with men. I wanted their freedom.”

By Anne Waldman | January 18, 2023

Paul Auster: Why Is America the Most Violent Country in the Western World?

Paul Auster: Why Is America the Most Violent Country in the Western World?

On the Normalization of Gun Culture in the United States

By Paul Auster | January 18, 2023

Dissolution Foretold: Neurosurgeon Henry Marsh on the Reality of His Own Diagnosis

Dissolution Foretold: Neurosurgeon Henry Marsh on the Reality of His Own Diagnosis

“The problem is that our true self, our brain, has changed.”

By Henry Marsh | January 17, 2023

How Leaning into Marginalia Helped Me Accept the Loss of Control That Comes with Publication

How Leaning into Marginalia Helped Me Accept the Loss of Control That Comes with Publication

Josh Riedel on Doodles, Dogears, and Acceptance

By Josh Riedel | January 17, 2023

What Would It Mean to Really Make Space for Mother-Artists?

What Would It Mean to Really Make Space for Mother-Artists?

Janet Manley on Hettie Judah and the Perennial Problem of the “Mother-Shaped Hole”

By Janet Manley | January 13, 2023

Despite leaks, Prince Harry’s memoir is the UK’s fastest selling nonfiction title ever.

Despite leaks, Prince Harry’s memoir is the UK’s fastest selling nonfiction title ever.

By Jonny Diamond | January 12, 2023

The Names of Things: Larissa Pham on Nature Walks and the Grammar of Animacy

The Names of Things: Larissa Pham on Nature Walks and the Grammar of Animacy

When I’m Not Writing, a Series About Writers and Their Hobbies

By Larissa Pham | January 12, 2023

« First ‹ Previous 42 43 44 454647 48 49 50 Next ›Last »

Page 46 of 159