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Blue Nights
In a searing new memoir, the author of The Year of Magical Thinking reflects on motherhood, loss, and memory.
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My Song
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William Styron: A Promise Kept
An editor's memory of two literary legends, and a collaboration that left a lasting impact.
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Reading My Father
Alexandra Styron has written an extraordinarily sensitive biography of her father, the author of Sophie's Choice and The Confessions of Nat Turner.
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My Korean Deli
An editor finds himself behind the counter in this memoir of a family retail experiment.
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My Father's Fortune
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Bird Cloud
A natural and domestic history of an author's love affair with a rugged corner of Wyoming.
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Fury
The author of Smashed returns with a second memoir, a diary-like exploration of her angers and their repression.
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The Hare with Amber Eyes
Edmund de Waal traces his Jewish family—and their collection of Japanese netsuki—through 19th- and 20th-century European history.
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On the Outskirts of Normal
A single mother's affecting memoir of adoption, small town life, and constructing moments of order amid life's chaos.
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Hitch-22
The controversial journalist recalls his formative radicalism and illustrious friendships in an entertaining memoir.
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Forget Sorrow
A moving graphic memoir of a prominent Chinese family's perilous passage through 20th-century history.
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Just Kids
Patti Smith and Robert Mapplethorpe, and a passionate friendship that rocked the music and art worlds. Read more...
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The Ticking Is the Bomb
In an act of daring juxtaposition, the award-winning poet and memoirist meditates on the arrival of his child in a world shadowed by torture.
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Committed
The author of Eat, Pray, Love traces her circuitous route back to the altar. Read more...
City Boy: My Life in New York During the 1960s and '70s
A brash, revealing, and sometimes dishy chronicle of a gay writer's life in a bygone Manhattan. Read more...
Lit
The new memoir from the author of The Liars' Club charts life as an addict, poet, and survivor. Read more...
Traveling with Pomegranates
The author of The Secret Life of Bees and her daughter pen an unusual memoir of travel and self-discovery. Read more...
Parallel Play
A childhood seen through the high-precision lens of Asperger's syndrome. Read more...
The Music Room
A boy's life in a famed Tudor castle -- haunted by spirits of the past, and the present. Read more...
The Pattern in the Carpet
Heller McAlpin reviews an intriguing puzzle of a memoir. Read more...
The Adderall Diaries
An attempt to delve into an enigmatic murder case yields a book that deliberately clouds the border between memoir and fiction. Read more...
The Slippery Year
How a couple's midlife crisis led to a family's journey of discovery. Read more...
The View from the Bridge
A career devoted to the seduction of story -- from Sherlock Holmes and Jack the Ripper to Kirk vs. Kahn. Read more...
Lost in the Meritocracy: The Undereducation of an Overachiever
A young man's eastward odyssey from Minnesota to Princeton and beyond. Read more...
"The moral and philosophical questions that Henry wrote up as fiction and William as science," Jean Strouse writes of her subject's more famous brothers, "Alice simply lived." It took a biographer of sensitivity and brilliance to give that "simply" the profundity it deserves, and the resulting book, now reissued in the peerless NYRB Classics series, is one of the richest life stories you'll ever read.
The world of Jane Austen's fiction has long been an imaginative playground for writers and readers of a certain stripe. Shannon Hale's Austenland wittily took the next step, setting comic romance in a faux-Pemberly resort for the Darcy-smitten. Her latest returns for more Regency fun, but with a twist: does murder stalk Pembrook Park?
Childlike retreat? Arts and crafts challenge? Frugal and eco-friendly living option? The notion of the "tiny house" has the surprising potential to fire the imagination. In this exuberant volume of sketches, plans, and commentary, the artist Derek Diedricksen shares his infectious enthusiasm for the idea of the micro-mansion.
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