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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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The Kurtzman Era of Star Trek Boldly Goes Into the Trashcan

July 23, 2026July 28, 2026 William Schwartz 2

How to understand the demise of NuTrek

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Is Maggie O’Farrell’s New Novel ‘Land’ Just Grief Porn?

July 19, 2026July 24, 2026 Katie Smith 0

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‘The Invite’ Prompt Was — Bergman, But Make It Funny!

July 11, 2026July 14, 2026 Laura Pruden 3

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Traumatized Young Woman?

July 10, 2026July 14, 2026 Neal Pollack 1

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