Memoir

Finding Catharsis in the Story
of a Family Betrayal

Darin Strauss on the Line Between Novel and Mythic Memoir

 
By Darin Strauss  August 7, 2020
Memoir

How Do You Write a Memoir of the Unknown?

By Rose Andersen  July 10, 2020
Memoir

I Wrote My Memoir for the Same Reasons I Went to the Shooting Range

By Lacy Crawford  July 8, 2020
Memoir

How to Grieve the Living: A Conversation with Stephanie Danler

By Francesca Pellas  June 12, 2020
Memoir

Traveling the World to See What My Mother Couldn’t

By Heather Scott Partington  June 1, 2020
Memoir

The Power of Spaces Built for People with Disabilities

By Judith Heumann and Kristen Joiner  April 9, 2020
Memoir

Growing Up in One of America’s Legendary Restaurants

By Fanny Singer  April 1, 2020
Memoir

Harry Dodge: Scenes From San Francisco

By Harry Dodge  March 20, 2020
Memoir

A Mother’s Survivor’s Guilt in the Wake of Sandy Hook

By Carol Ann Davis  March 4, 2020
Memoir

Elizabeth Tallent on Death, Silence and the Intimacies of Sadness

By Elizabeth Tallent  February 27, 2020
Memoir

What Can an Essayist Do in the Face of Massive Tragedy?

By Sonya Bilocerkowycz  January 9, 2020
Memoir

On the Strange Connection Between Brain Damage and Sex Drive

By Sarah Vallance  January 6, 2020
Memoir

On What the Constraints of Parenting Have Taught Me About Writing

By Nicole Gulotta  November 8, 2019
Memoir

For Sarah Broom, Coming-of-Age Means Learning to See

By Sarah M. Broom  August 15, 2019
Memoir

Sister Helen Prejean:
My Faith Began With a Fear of Leaving Home

By Helen Prejean  August 14, 2019
Memoir

The Road to Oliver Sacks’

By Lawrence Weschler  August 13, 2019
Memoir

Gregory Orr on Rebuilding a Life When Nothing Makes Sense

By Gregory Orr  August 12, 2019
Memoir

Dani Shapiro on the Disequilibrium of a Life-Changing Moment

By But That's Another Story  July 30, 2019
Memoir

Valerie Jarrett on 26-Year-Old Michelle Obama’s Unforgettable Job Interview

By Valerie Jarrett  April 4, 2019
Essayists

My Broke, Black, Beautiful Parents

By Damon Young  April 1, 2019
Excerpts

Samuel Beckett, Thrower of Shade

By Frederic Pajak  March 18, 2019
Excerpts

The Time I Crashed at Nora Ephron’s Apartment

By Michael Mewshaw  March 15, 2019
Excerpts

Frederic Tuten: On My Youthful Dreams of the Parisian Writer’s Life

By Frederic Tuten  March 8, 2019
Excerpts

So You’ve Come Out to Yourself as Genderqueer. What’s Next?

By Jacob Tobia  March 8, 2019
Essay

Of Love, Madness, and Death: Notes Toward a Literary Autobiography

By Amparo Dávila  March 4, 2019
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