#memoir

So, what is a memoir, exactly? Here's an exploration into the definition of the genre, its various forms, and examples.

What books did you acquire (inbox) and finish (outbox) this week?

A memoir from a husband about his wife in a psych ward landed in my lap to teach me all the things my partner and I had been discussing just weeks earlier.

Why celebrity memoirs about performed normalcy and quirkiness aren't enough for this reader.

Fiction and nonfiction from comic book writers worth checking out.

Memoirs from authors from marginalized groups.

On Maggie Nelson's Bluets and The Red Parts, works of genre-busting, unclassifiable non-fiction.

Love medical science? Read these medical books.

Books that celebrate teachers and the teaching profession.

Melissa Febos's new memoir Abandon Me is full of beautiful quotations about love and stories in all their forms. Here are twenty of them.

New books from British authors, all coming out this month!

A reader and daughter on how she feels about being in her father's memoir.

Mini-reviews of memoirs that are more than memoirs.

Travel memoirs for the Read Harder 2017 task!

Here are some of my favorite books about what it's like being a writer.