It was critical to the narrative to capture what it was like to be a child and experience what I did.
INTERVIEW: Deborah Derrickson Kossmann, Author of Lost Found Kept: A Memoir
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REVIEW: All the Beauty in the World by Patrick Bringley
In his exquisite debut memoir Patrick Bringley walks us through—quite literally—the decade he spent as a guard at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
INTERVIEW: Barrie Miskin, Author of Hell Gate Bridge
It’s summer 2016 when Barrie Miskin decides to go off her low-dose antidepressant in order to conceive
INTERVIEW: Suzanne Scanlon, Author of Committed: On Meaning and Madwomen
The act of writing helps, being a writer helps…. But that doesn’t mean it ended my grief.
INTERVIEW: Susannah Kennedy, Author of Reading Jane: A Daughter’s Memoir
One of the reasons I’m so drawn to memoir is I learn so much by reading the journeys of others.
INTERVIEW: Susan Kiyo Ito, Author of I Would Meet You Anywhere
In a boundary-breaking memoir Susan Kiyo Ito unveils the truth of her origins.
INTERVIEW: Jami Nakamura Lin, Author of The Night Parade: A Speculative Memoir
In The Night Parade: A Speculative Memoir, Jami Nakamura Lin pushes the boundaries of craft as she struggles with the loss of her father.
INTERVIEW: Alice Carrière, Author of Everything/Nothing/Someone: A Memoir
Alice and Leslie intergenerational trauma, art and architecture, and the mangled psychiatric system in this author interview.
INTERVIEW: Cassandra Jackson, Author of The Wreck & Jasmine Brown, Author of Twice As Hard
Each of these stories braid extensive grit, disempowerment, Black women, erasure, ancestry, and the medical community into a seamless whole.
INTERVIEW: Tanya Frank, Author of Zig-Zag Boy: A Memoir of Madness & Motherhood
Zig-Zag Boy by Tanya Frank is a collective book, giving voice to all families who have experienced this often terrifying and jarring experience.
