Writers who believed they were teaching us about a particular temptation, iniquity, perversion, or depravity: think twice, because they should know they will be thrown to the lions in public opinion.
USA Today | Marco R. della Cava | Posted 10.13.2009 | Books
Highest Duty is the tale of two Sullys. There's the North Texas teen whose mother saved to pay for flying lessons that led to the Air Force Academy an...
The Huffington Post | Jessie Kunhardt | Posted 11.20.2009 | Books
Between Ayelet's controversial 2005 New York Times article and ensuing Oprah appearance and Michael's new non-fiction, the Chabon family is out to ent...
Dr. Belisa Vranich | Posted 10.08.2009 | Media
Part memoir, part how-to book, peppered with behind-the-scenes of TV journalism, Velez courageously chronicles her quest from "insanity to clarity, from egocentricity to altruism, from alcoholism to activism."
The Huffington Post | Irene Vilar | Posted 10.05.2009 | Books
At what point when trying to get a book published and failing at it does one say let's shelve the damned thing? The evening I got a status report summ...
AP | Posted 10.04.2009 | Books
LA PORTE CITY, Iowa — Peg Mullen, an author and former Iowa farm wife who hounded the U.S. military to find the truth about her son's death in V...
Ellen Snortland | Posted 11.24.2009 | Living
There's nothing like a good disaster to remind you of your own mortality; stop waiting for "someday." You need to write that book, sing that song, smell those roses, surf that wave
Frank Bruni | Posted 11.16.2009 | Living
With person after person I met on my book tour, I came to see that our memories aren't really patchy; they're patchworks, randomly retrieved bits and scraps that we weave together into something different.
Beth Armogida | Posted 09.24.2009 | Comedy
I was hatched on a cold, Nebraska day, January 30, 1941. It was the first of two fateful events for our country that year. The second took place in December.
Christina Patterson | Posted 09.10.2009 | Entertainment
Clive James is a brilliant bunch of questions, a brilliant bunch of answers, and soliloquies and theories and counter-theories. No need for an interviewer, really, except that I'm here and I'd quite like to do it.
Louise Mirrer | Posted 09.03.2009 | New York
For people today who wonder whether the American Dream is still viable -- or if it is, how to achieve it -- The Education of an American Dreamer offers a fascinating and complex answer.
Lissa Warren | Posted 08.27.2009 | Business
A mere chronicle of the author's experience is rarely enough for a memoir to succeed. Readers need a reason to care, and perspective is key.
David Finkle | Posted 08.13.2009 | Living
Although her title is an eyebrow-raiser, Elizabeth Hawes knows what she's doing. With Camus, a Romance, her new and unconventional work, she isn't simply writing a biography.
Richard Farrell | Posted 07.24.2009 | Living
Heroin is not a cold-shake like cocaine. The impurities used to cut heroin need to be cooked off in boiling water before you shoot it intravenously.
Politico | Posted 06.13.2009 | Politics
Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin will use a memoir out next spring to give her side of her interviews with CBS's Katie Couric but holds no bitterness toward Se...
Rachel Kramer Bussel | Posted 05.15.2009 | Living
Nicole Johns suffered severe damage to her body, including exercise-induced asthma, irregular heartbeat, and hypotension, and had to be hospitalized to be treated... while a size 9.
Elicia Berger | Posted 04.15.2009 | Media
I recently caught up with Suzanne Guillette, whose first book, Much to Your Chagrin: A Memoir of Embarrassment, came out on March 10th.
Jesse Kornbluth | Posted 04.10.2009 | Living
The reason to read this book -- the reason to put down whatever you're currently reading and devour these 300 pages right now -- is that it connects the food to the people who cooked it and ate it.
Joanne Rendell | Posted 02.24.2009 | Style
Women love books. It's a fact: we are the reading sex. We are the writing sex too. Yet, in spite of this, our books are often ridiculed, demeaned, or ignored.
Matt Mendelsohn | Posted 02.09.2009 | Media
The Times called and I panicked a bit. All I can say now is that I have told the story verbally so many times over the years and then, along the way, internalized it as my own experience.
Mark Bazer | Posted 02.05.2009 | Living
Below is video from an interview I did with best-selling memoirist Jen Lancaster, author of Bitter Is the New Black and Such a Pretty Fat.
Andrew Foster Altschul | Posted 02.03.2009 | Media
But what if the answer to publishers' problems lies not in finding the right book to publish but in finding the right book not to publish?
Bart Motes | Posted 01.18.2009 | Media
Ernest Hemingway reportedly said "the first draft of anything is shit." Maybe that's why Shalom Auslander's Foreskin's Lament is so damn good. Ausl...
Erik Lundegaard | Posted 01.09.2009 | Media
This is a book that echoes. Barack's father, in a letter to his 10-year-old son, tells him, "Like water finding its level, you will find a career that suits you."
Jan Herman | Posted 01.02.2009 | Style
Malcolm Mc Neill's memoir about his longtime collaboration with William S. Burroughs, Observed While Falling, is just as spellbinding as his show at Salomon Arts in Manhattan.
Bernard-Henri Lévy | Posted 10.13.2009 | World