Tag Archives: Personal Memoirs
My Crazy Century
by Ivan Klíma“Klíma has endured as a writer, endured as a human being, writing of the great themes of freedom, honesty, and love and politics, and…
Monster
by Sanyika Shakur“Radiates [power] with dangerous aplomb . . . Attests not only to Mr. Shakur’s journalistic eye for observation, but also to his novelistic skills…
Meet Me in the In-Between
by Bella PollenA provocative and lively memoir in stories by the inimitable and bestselling author of The Summer of the Bear.
Light Years
by Susanna Moore“A lush and beautiful book; her reminisces read in many cases like a series of dreams… Light Years artfully recalls a time when life…
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…
