• Memoir

    Class

    Go West Young Ski Bum: The Broken American Idea of Living the Dream

    By Heather Hansman  November 11, 2021
    Red Ink Series

    Live at the Red Ink Series: On Writing About Family

    By Literary Hub  November 11, 2021
    Friendship

    How Philip Roth Taught Me To Write—And Heal

    By Alexandra Marshall  November 10, 2021
    Libraries

    How to Reopen a High School Library 18 Months After a Pandemic Closure

    By Jess deCourcy Hinds  November 9, 2021
    Middle Age

    Searching for Representations of Middle-Aged Women

    By Chibundu Onuzo  November 9, 2021
    Activism

    How the Associated Press Erased the Voice of a Climate Justice Activist—and an Entire Continent

    By Vanessa Nakate  November 8, 2021
    Correspondence

    “I Am Disgusted with Things as They Are.” Ralph Ellison on the Injustice and Poverty of 1937 New York

    By Shaun Usher  November 5, 2021
    Swimming

    Kinds of Blue: On the Human Need to Swim

    By Karen Lloyd  November 5, 2021
    In Conversation

    On Grit: How Cheryl Strayed Learned to Ride Into Battle

    By Debbie Millman  November 4, 2021
    Sexuality

    Learning About Sex from Samantha Jones

    By Rax King  November 4, 2021
    Book Collection

    What I Learned While Cataloguing an Entire Library of 19th-Century Schoolbooks

    By Kim Beil  November 4, 2021
    Identity

    On the Logistics of Memory; Or, Writing While Uprooted

    By Anjanette Delgado  November 4, 2021
    Otherppl

    Matthew Clark Davison on Leaving Home at 15

    By Otherppl with Brad Listi  November 4, 2021
    The Hub

    Paul Newman’s memoir—which he started writing in the 80s—will finally be released next fall.

    By Vanessa Willoughby  November 3, 2021
    The Body

    Discovering the Message: How Nature Can Heal the Trauma Stored in Our Bodies

    By Yrsa Daley-Ward  November 3, 2021
    Adoption

    Survival Dictionary: The Book that Helped Me Define the Terms of My Adoption Memoir

    By Jan Beatty  November 3, 2021
    Indie Booksellers Recommend

    Indie Booksellers Recommend: The Best of Independent Presses This November

    By Literary Hub  November 3, 2021
    The Midwest

    On Jay Gatsby, the Most Famous North Dakotan

    By Sarah Vogel  November 2, 2021
    Family Histories

    On the Shape of Heartbreak and My Teenage Cousin’s Fatal Crime

    By Katharine Blake  November 2, 2021
    The Writing Life

    On the Gift (and Weight) of Winning a “Free” House

    By Anne Elizabeth Moore  November 1, 2021
    Travel

    How I Learned to Let Form Do the Work

    By Muriel Barbery  November 1, 2021
    Motherhood

    On Being No One’s Mother

    By Teresa K. Miller  November 1, 2021
    Writing

    How the Everyday Becomes Mythic Through Fiction

    By Andrew Siegrist  October 29, 2021
    The Craft of Writing

    Victoria Chang on the Real Questions that Power Stories

    By Victoria Chang  October 29, 2021
    Best Reviewed Books of the Month

    Here Are the Best Reviewed Memoirs and Biographies of October

    By Book Marks  October 27, 2021
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