Category: Memoir

Posted in Graphic Novel Memoir

The Fire Never Goes Out by Noelle Stevenson

Noelle Stevenson | The Fire Never Goes Out | In her new graphic memoir, the award-winning author-illustrator of Nimona and creator of Netflix’s She-Ra turns her artistic lens inward, charting the

Posted in Memoir

Feelings Are Facts by Yvonne Rainer

Yvonne Rainer | Feelings Are Facts | If you’re interested in Plato, you’re reading the wrong book. If you’re interested in difficult childhoods, sexual misadventures, aesthetics, cultural

Posted in Autobiography/Biography Memoir

My Autobiography Of Carson McCullers by Jenn Shapland

Jenn Shapland | My Autobiography Of Carson McCullers | While working as an intern in the archives at the Harry Ransom Center, Jenn Shapland encounters the love letters of Carson McCullers and a woman named

Posted in Autobiography/Biography Memoir

A woman who– by Yvonne Rainer

Yvonne Rainer | A woman who– | Yvonne Rainer is one of the most important feminist, avant-garde filmmakers working today. She began her career as a dancer and choreographer, and was

Posted in Black Interest Memoir

when they call you a terrorist by Patrisse Khan-Cullors; asha bandele

Patrisse Khan-Cullors; asha bandele | when they call you a terrorist | ‘The emotional and powerful story of one of the co-founders of Black Lives Matter and how the movement was born. From one of the co-founders of the Bl

Posted in Chicana/Latina/Latinx Interest Memoir

A Cup of Water Under My Bed by Daisy Hernandez

Daisy Hernandez | A Cup of Water Under My Bed | A coming-of-age memoir by a Colombian-Cuban woman about shaping lessons from home into a new, queer life

In this lyrical, coming-of-age memo

Posted in Autobiography/Biography Graphic Novel Memoir

Calling Dr. Laura: a Graphic Memoir by Nicole J. Georges

Nicole J. Georges | Calling Dr. Laura: a Graphic Memoir | Nationally, Portland, Oregon is known for being a rainy green city of bicyclists, 20-something hipsters, and enough log-jammed trends from the ninetie

Posted in Autobiography/Biography Memoir

Memoirs of an Old Dyke by Jinx Beers

Jinx Beers | Memoirs of an Old Dyke | Born in a dysfunctional lower middle class family in the middle of the ‘big’ depression, no one could have predicted that Jinx Beers would be a pionee

Posted in Autobiography/Biography Memoir

Gypsy, A Memoir by Gypsy Rose Lee

Gypsy Rose Lee | Gypsy, A Memoir | Gypsy: A Memoir is a 1957 autobiography of renowned striptease artist Gypsy Rose Lee, which inspired the Broadway musical Gypsy: A Musical Fable and t

Posted in Autobiography/Biography Memoir

L Is for Lion: An Italian Bronx Butch Freedom Memoir by Annie Rachel Lanzillotto

Annie Rachel Lanzillotto | L Is for Lion: An Italian Bronx Butch Freedom Memoir | If you’re looking for a singular category for Annie Rachele Lanzillotto’s memoir L Is For Lion, you’ll be hard-pressed to choose just one. This sprawl