Tag Archives: Personal Memoirs
Lights On, Rats Out
by Cree LeFavourA raw, intense and intimate account of one gifted young woman’s dangerously entangled relationship with a psychiatrist in her defiant twenties.
The Last Holiday
by Gil Scott-Heron“Leave it to Scott-Heron to save some of his best for last. This posthumously published memoir, The Last Holiday, is an elegiac culmination to…
The Journal Keeper
by Phyllis Theroux“I loved this singularly honest and graceful book. The Journal Keeper reminds us that there is no such thing as an ordinary moment, and certainly no such thing as an ordinary life.” —Elizabeth Gilbert, best-selling author of Eat, Pray, Love…
The Interior Circuit
by Francisco Goldman“So sneakily brilliant it’s hard to put into words. Part travelogue, part memoir, part reportage on Mexican politics and the scourge of narco-terrorism, it…
Insatiable
by Asa AkiraAn emotional, no-holds-barred memoir by one of America’s best-loved adult film actresses—a fresh voice writing about sex in a world drowned in erotica.
I Will Find You
by Joanna ConnorsA singularly striking memoir by a skillful journalist and reporter for the Cleveland Plain Dealer, Joanna Connors, about her quest to uncover the life…
The Iceberg
by Marion Coutts“A memoir quite unlike any other. It has the strength of an arrow: taut, spiked, quavering, working to its fatal conclusion . . ….
H Is for Hawk
by Helen Macdonald“Helen Macdonald’s beautiful and nearly feral book, H Is for Hawk, reminds us that excellent nature writing can lay bare some of the intimacies…
Full Service
by Scotty Bowers“In this shocking exposé, Bowers finally reveals his sexual liaisons with the rich and famous, sparing no details along the way. . . . Bowers has no regrets—having led a life of pleasure, satisfaction and joy that the rest of us can only envy.” —The New York Post…
Family Meals
by Michael TuckerThe follow-up to his celebrated memoir, Living in a Foreign Language, Michael Tucker’s Family Meals is a heartwarming book about family and the challenges…
