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Your Memoir Will Tick Someone Off, But Not for the Reasons You Think

Your Memoir Will Tick Someone Off, But Not for the Reasons You Think

Menachem Kaiser Guests on the Book Dreams Podcast

By Book Dreams | June 17, 2021

“19-Year-Old Me Could Not Have Written This Book.” Sherry Turkle on Why Some Stories Take Time

“19-Year-Old Me Could Not Have Written This Book.” Sherry Turkle on Why Some Stories Take Time

This Week from Just the Right Book with Roxanne Coady

By Just the Right Book | June 17, 2021

Patrick Cottrell: How Autofiction Has Taken the Pressure Off Character Transformation

Patrick Cottrell: How Autofiction Has Taken the Pressure Off Character Transformation

In Conversation with Jordan Kisner on the Thresholds Podcast

By Thresholds | June 16, 2021

“Camp is a Sensibility.” On Susan Sontag, Extravagance, and Sexuality

“Camp is a Sensibility.” On Susan Sontag, Extravagance, and Sexuality

Amelia Abraham Considers a Queer Icon

By Amelia Abraham | June 15, 2021

On Deciding to Tell My Story in a Novel Instead of a Memoir

On Deciding to Tell My Story in a Novel Instead of a Memoir

Brittany Ackerman on the Craft of Truth and Memory

By Brittany Ackerman | June 15, 2021

Sinéad O’Connor on Discovering Van Morrison in Her Lonely Early Days in London

Sinéad O’Connor on Discovering Van Morrison in Her Lonely Early Days in London

“There’ll be a lifetime of goodbyes. I can’t have a problem with that.”

By Sinéad O'Connor | June 14, 2021

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Up in Smoke: On Death, Identity, and a Flammable Childhood in Nigeria

By Akwaeke Emezi | June 14, 2021

Remembering Mark Baumer: Barefoot Walker, Poet, Climate Activist, Friend

By Claire Donato | June 10, 2021

How Audre Lorde’s Genre-Blurring Zami Spoke My Truth Into Existence

By Jamika Ajalon | June 10, 2021

Finding Home by the Water, from the Mekong Delta to Coney Island

Finding Home by the Water, from the Mekong Delta to Coney Island

Ly Tran: “Water was always everywhere. And we accepted it. We exalted it. We prayed to it.”

By Ly Tran | June 10, 2021

Personal Space: Anjali Enjeti on Reckoning with Complicity, Shame, and Power Dynamics in Memoir

Personal Space: Anjali Enjeti on Reckoning with Complicity, Shame, and Power Dynamics in Memoir

The Author of Southbound Talks to Sari Botton

By The Virtual Book Channel | June 10, 2021

Reading Books About... People Reading Books?

Reading Books About... People Reading Books?

Alice Jolly Recommends Biblio-Memoirs by Nina Sankovitch, Andy Miller, Jenn Shapland, and More

By Alice Jolly | June 10, 2021

The Unexpected Pleasures of Being a Late Bloomer, in Motherhood and Writing

The Unexpected Pleasures of Being a Late Bloomer, in Motherhood and Writing

E.J. Levy on Writing Through Literary Vanity

By E.J. Levy | June 10, 2021

When a Thriller Feels More Personal to Write Than Your Own Memoir

When a Thriller Feels More Personal to Write Than Your Own Memoir

Paula McLain Guests on the Book Dreams Podcast

By Book Dreams | June 10, 2021

Chasing a Waking Life: On the Pains of Being an Insomniac

Chasing a Waking Life: On the Pains of Being an Insomniac

Aminatta Forna Moves Through a Cultural and Personal History of Sleeplessness

By Aminatta Forna | June 9, 2021

“My Life is Quite Gay.” A Queer Memoir Reading List

“My Life is Quite Gay.” A Queer Memoir Reading List

John Paul Brammer on LGBTQ+ Stories That Guided
His Life and Writing

By John Paul Brammer | June 8, 2021

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