An archive of our reviews of memoirs, essay collections, and other works of creative nonfiction.
When still considering writing a memoir about his father’s death from AIDS in the 1980s and the secretive atmosphere in his parent’s stylish Central Park West apartment, Marco Roth was deeply concerned that he “mustn’t write about any of this.
At the end of July 2006, Anthony Shadid travels to his grandfather’s house in Lebanon in hopes of restoring it.
This is a collection that offers the best of what creative nonfiction can be: stories that capture the essence of a moment…
Not only does Braided Worlds tie two cultures together with their differences and similarities, it also braids the very different perspectives of Alma and Phillip as they each write about their personal experiences.
Gathering Noise from My Life, a Camouflaged Memoir by Donald Anderson is an eclectic array of memories…
January, or “Jani,” was born a genius; at three years old, she could read and calculate mathematics in her head. But if she didn’t receive constant mental stimulation, she could succumb to violent meltdowns.
Love is exactly the word that comes to mind when reading the memoir of actress and literary newcomer Kristen Johnston. Guts: The Endless Follies and Tiny Triumphs of a Giant Disaster (Gallery Books, 2012) encompasses her brilliant journey from darkness to light.
“At the heart of every story lies a dilemma.” So begins the new book by Alan Watt, The 90 Day Rewrite. Latching onto the success of his first book, The 90 Day Novel, he attacks the rewrite process with the same vigor. He starts off with a review of what we learned from his first…
Memories aren’t linear. Shame doesn’t subside with each confession. That is the world inside Kelle Groom’s memoir, I Wore the Ocean in the Shape of a Girl.
“That perhaps being amidst the undesecrated beauty of the wilderness meant I too could be undesecrated, regardless of what I’d lost or what had been taken from me, regardless of the regrettable things I’d done to others or myself or the regrettable things that had been done to me. Of all the things I’d been…
