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Wednesday, January 29, 2020

Writers React to the Death of Memoirist Elizabeth Wurtzel from Cancer at Age 52

January 7, 2020January 7, 2020 Ken Kurson 0 Comments BRCA gene, breast cancer, depression, double mastectomy, Elizabeth Wurtzel, Fight House: Rivalries in the White House, Jim Freed, Joe Biden, John Podhoretz, Julian Castro, Lisa DePaulo, Los Angeles Magazine, Maer Roshan, mikal gilmore, Now Again, Prozac Nation, Prozac Nation: Young and Depressed in America, Susan Shapiro, Tevi Troy, The Byline Bible

‘Prozac Nation’ helped birth a wave of self-examination

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To Dish or Not to Dish?

October 22, 2019October 23, 2019 Art Edwards 0 Comments Deirdre Bair, Parisian Lives, Samuel Beckett, Simone de Beauvoir

‘Parisian Lives,’ a Juicy Memoir by Beckett’s Biographer

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On the Road with Patti Smith

September 25, 2019September 25, 2019 Erika Schickel 0 Comments Because the Night, National Book Award, Patti Smith, Sam Shepard, Year of the Monkey

‘Year Of The Monkey,’ a Hallucinatory Memoir of a Rockstar Poet’s 69th Year

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Red Lake County is the Place to Be

September 10, 2019September 10, 2019 Shari Simpson 0 Comments Christopher Ingraham, If You Lived Here You'd Be Home By Now, Washington Post

In ”If You Lived Here, You’d Be Home By Now,’ A Blue Check Mark Moves to Red America

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Traveling Heavy

August 5, 2019 Michael Giltz 0 Comments Alexandra Fuller, Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight, Travel Light Move Fast

Alexandra Fuller Explores Family In New Memoir

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Rick Moody’s Terrible, Horrible, No-Good, Very Bad Year

August 1, 2019 Katharine Coldiron 0 Comments Rick Moody, The Long Accomplishment

‘The Long Accomplishment’: An Eye-Popping, Cathartic Read

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Doctor Love

June 27, 2019June 27, 2019 Shari Simpson 0 Comments Ayaz Virji, Christian, Christianity, Islam, Love Thy Neighbor, Muslim

In ‘Love Thy Neighbor’, a Muslim Physician Adapts to Rural America

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Howard Stern is Listening

June 12, 2019 Omar Gallaga 0 Comments Bill O'Reilly, Chris Rock, Courtney Love, Donald Trump, Ed Sheeran, Harvey Weinstein, Howard Stern, Howard Stern Comes Again, Jay-Z, Jerry Seinfeld, Jon Bon Jovi, Rosie O'Donnell, Wack Pack

A Long Collection of Interviews, and a Sort-of Apology

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‘On Being Human’

June 3, 2019 Shari Simpson 0 Comments Jennifer Pastiloff, On Being Human

Jennifer Pastiloff’s Memoir of Intentional Uplift

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Therapy for the Therapist

May 23, 2019May 23, 2019 Shari Simpson 0 Comments Lori Gottlieb, Maybe You Should Talk To Someone

‘Maybe You Should Talk To Someone’, by Lori Gottlieb

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‘This Never Happened’

March 6, 2019March 5, 2019 Katharine Coldiron 0 Comments Liz Scott, This Never Happened

A Funny and Wildly Original Memoir About Growing up With a Narcissistic Mother

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She Persisted

February 22, 2019February 22, 2019 Neal Pollack 0 Comments Educated, Tara Westover

‘Educated’, an Education in Education, Mostly for the Uneducated

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Richard Lloyd’s Memoir: a Thing of Real Beauty and Light

January 22, 2019August 12, 2019 Ken Kurson 0 Comments CBGBs, Everything is combustible, Hilly Kristal, Jimi Hendrix, Richard Lloyd, Television

‘Everything Is Combustible’ Puts You Inside the Unique Mind of a Musical Master

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Sally Field Stands Tall For Women

October 1, 2018October 1, 2018 Melissa Bertolino 0 Comments #metoo, Burt Reynolds, Jeff Bridges, Sally Field, The Monkees

Her New Memoir Puts It All Out There

CREATORS Memoir Writers

Literary Downtown

September 17, 2018September 17, 2018 Ken Kurson 1 Comment Algiers, Black Panthers, Britney Wilson, Cory Nakasue, Elaine Makhtefi, Eldridge Cleaver, Frantz Fanon, Gila Walker, Housing Works, Jason Diamond, Jen Doll, Leonora Miano, McNally Jackson, Mokhtar Mokhtefi, Pilot Viruet, Ryan Chapman, Sari Botton, Season of the Shadow, St. Marks Bookshop, Stokely Carmichael, Talia Lavin, Timothy Leary, Will Hermes

You just have to look a little harder, walk a little farther

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