Category: Memoir

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Socialist Realism by Trisha Low

Trisha Low | Socialist Realism | ‘As she recovers from a breakup with a lover who had meant everything to her, Trisha Low grapples with the meaning of everything, in memoir rich with

Posted in Black Interest Memoir

Wow, No Thank You by Samantha Irby

Samantha Irby | Wow, No Thank You | ‘Irby is forty, and increasingly uncomfortable in her own skin despite what Inspirational Instagram Infographics have promised her. She has left her j

Posted in Black Interest Memoir

We Are Never Meeting in Real Life by Samantha Irby

Samantha Irby | We Are Never Meeting in Real Life | With heartfelt candor and her usual side-splitting bite, humorist, essayist, and blogger at bitchesgottaeat.com Samantha Irby captures powerful emotio

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Becoming A Man by P. Carl

P. Carl | Becoming A Man | “A memoir that is jolting, honest, passionate, and beautifully written” (Claudia Rankine), Becoming a Man explores one man’s gender transition amid a

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

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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