In her debut memoir, Shigeko Ito delves into her Japanese upbringing, marked by obedience and self-sacrifice
INTERVIEW: Shigeko Ito, Author of The Pond Beyond the Forest
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REVIEW: Cipher: Decoding My Ancestor’s Scandalous Secret Diaries by Jeremy B. Jones
Cipher is a book like no other — part history, part-mystery, part-memoir….
REVIEW: Giving Up the Ghost: A Daughter’s Memoir by Samantha Rose
At first, Rose’s grief journey is solitary, but she is buttressed by her younger, can-do sisters….
INTERVIEW: Muriel A Murch, Author of Harvesting History While Farming the Flats
Harvesting History While Farming the Flats is a gorgeous, thoughtful book inside and out.
REVIEW: The Lab: Experiments in Writing Across Genre by Matthew Clark Davison and Alice LaPlante
… a hearty reference guide, a study in craft, a pep talk, an instructional manual and good for all writers of all levels.
INTERVIEW: Peter Mendelsund, Author of Exhibitionist
Exhibitionist is at once a memoir — a journal — and an art book.
REVIEW: Frontier: A Memoir & a Ghost Story by Erica Stern
Frontier seamlessly blend[s] fiction with memoir with research in the most artful and imaginative manner.
INTERVIEW: Marty Ross-Dolen, Author of Always There, Always Gone: A Daughter’s Search for Truth
Told with a poet’s precision for language, and a novelist’s eye for storytelling, Marty Ross-Dolen takes a slightly unconventional approach to this memoir.
INTERVIEW: Jill Bialosky, Author of The End is the Beginning: A Personal History of My Mother
As a writer and a reader, I’m searching for truth, honesty, ways of making sense of difficult experiences.
INTERVIEW: Lidia Yuknavitch, Author of Reading the Waves
Organized in 15 nonlinear, braided essays, Reading the Waves by Lidia Yukanatich is about holding on and letting go. Mostly letting go.
