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Witnessing North Korea

September 10, 2026 William Schwartz 0 Comments Arduous March, Bloomsbury Academic, Book Review, Caritas, diplomacy, East Asia, geopolitics, humanitarian aid, international aid, Jerome Sauvage, Kaesong Industrial Region, Kathi Zellweger, Kim Jong-il, Kim Jong-un, memoir, Mike Chinoy, Miss Kathi, North Korea, North Korea books, North Korea famine, Paul French, Post Hill Press, sanctions, South Korea, Witness to North Korea

Two new books offer firsthand explanations for how we got to this point

Michael Cunningham Writes the ‘Unsayable’

July 20, 2026July 14, 2026 Elaine Margolin 0 Comments authors, Bob Dylan, Book Review, Iowa Writers Workshop, Julianne Moore, Ken Corbett, literary memoir, literary nonfiction, memoir, Meryl Streep, Michael Cunningham, Nicole Kidman, Pulitzer Prize, Random House, Stanford University, The Atlantic, The Doors, The Hours, The Paris Review, Unsayable A Life in Writing, Virginia Woolf, writing

The Pulitzer winner for ‘The Hours’ looks back on a life of authorship

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The Cruelty of Nice Minnesota Folks

June 26, 2026July 1, 2026 William Schwartz 0 Comments African American history, American history, American politics, autoethnography, Black Lives Matter, book criticism, Book Review, civil rights, contemporary nonfiction, George Floyd, George Floyd protests, Harper, health care inequality, housing discrimination, Hubert Humphrey, Justin Ellis, Ku Klux Klan, memoir, Minneapolis, Minnesota, Minnesota Nice, nonfiction books, police brutality, political history, public policy, race relations, redlining, segregation, social commentary, social justice, structural racism, systemic racism, The Atlantic, The Cruelty of Nice Folks, The Great Migration, Tim Walz, U.S. history, urban history

Justin Ellis explains why Minneapolis was America’s raw racial nerve

Kevin James Thornton Is Not Just a ‘Big Baby’

June 7, 2026June 4, 2026 Ayun Halliday 0 Comments Actress of a Certain Age, Big Baby, book criticism, Christian fundamentalism, Comedy, coming of age, cultural memoir, Fringe Festival, gay memoir, Gen-X, Grand Central Publishing, humor books, Indiana, Jeff Hiller, Kevin James Thornton, LGBTQ memoir, memoir, memoirs and biographies, Midwest culture, performing arts, personal essays, queer literature, self acceptance, Stand Up Comedy, viral creators

Can the comedian’s viral autotune videos make the jump to full-length memoir?

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Hell: A Guided Tour

October 31, 2025November 3, 2025 Michael Washburn 0 Comments #metoo, abuse survivors, British monarchy, crime nonfiction, Donald Trump, Epstein case, Ghislaine Maxwell, Jeffrey Epstein, Knopf, Mar a Lago, memoir, Nobody’s Girl, Peter Mandelson, Prince Andrew, royal scandal, sex trafficking, survivor stories, Virginia Roberts Giuffre

Virginia Roberts Guiffre’s harrowing memoir describes the sleazy, brutal underworld of sex trafficking and the vicious predators who reigned there

Mark Lanegan

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Mark Lanegan’s Beautifully Sad Memoir of Drugs and Despair

September 3, 2020August 18, 2022 Ken Kurson 4 Comments Alice in Chains, Bruce Pavitt, Courtney Love, Jeffrey Lee Pierce, Jerry Cantrell, Kurt Cobain, Layne Staley, Lee Connor, Liam Gallagher, memoir, Screaming Trees, Sing Backwards and Weep, Sub Pop, The Gun Club, Van Connor, Vocalist Mark Lanegan

Screaming Trees vocalist sings a powerful story

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John Malkovich, Werner Herzog, and Danny Boyle Show Up Big in Italy

September 5, 2026September 10, 2026 Stephen Garrett 0

Actors and directors bring the goods to the Venice Film Festival 2026

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BFG Podcast #314: Lanterns, Coyotes, Acme Discussions

September 3, 2026September 3, 2026 Book and Film Globe Staff 0

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Ridley Scott Is Back, Flying By the Light of ‘The Dog Stars’

August 28, 2026August 31, 2026 Stephen Garrett 0

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Maybe You Can Go Home Again, Samba Traore

August 27, 2026August 30, 2026 William Schwartz 0

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