Kreis Beall, who helped create Blackberry Farm, one of the South’s most heavenly resorts, explores in lyrical prose what happens when her life falls apart.
In her humorous and thoughtful memoir, Somebody’s Gotta Do It, Martini channels her outrage over the 2016 election into energy for her local government.
Bess Kalb’s heartfelt, hilarious memoir pays tribute to her beloved—and opinionated—grandma.
Everything I Know About Love recounts Dolly Alderton’s social and romantic mishaps through essays, satirical emails and recipes.
Philip Kennicott’s insight into the way music speaks to us as we wend our way toward inevitable death makes this book an unforgettable triumph.
Erin Khar’s memoir, Strung Out, is a compassionate account of her illness and will surely be the gold standard for women writing about heroin addiction.
Alex Halberstadt slowly pulls away the curtain draped over his family’s unhappiness and discovers that his grandfather served as a bodyguard to Stalin.
This thought-provoking meditation on solitude lifts up many writers and artists who have embraced seclusion.
Children of the Land, Marcelo Hernandez Castillo’s powerful, poetic memoir, adds a soul-searing voice to the canon of contemporary immigration narratives.
Barry Sonnenfeld, legendary cinematographer and director, does more than recall Hollywood vignettes in this funny, wry and thoroughly entertaining memoir.
In her memoir, Minor Feelings, Cathy Park Hong offers a fierce excavation of her hardships as an Asian American woman living and working as a poet and artist.
In 2013, Ginger Gaffney was called to help with a small herd of aggressive horses at an alternative prison ranch near where she lives in New Mexico.
Rich in ideas, Nelson’s memoir is a fascinating excavation of matters of the heart.
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