EDITORIAL REVIEW: The Liars' Club brought to vivid, indelible life Mary Karr's hardscrabble Texas childhood. Cherry, her account of her adolescence, 'continued to set the literary ...
ReviewMemoir of the steamboat era on the Mississippi River before the American Civil War by Mark Twain, published in 1883. The book begins with a brief history of the river from it...
SUMMARY: “It’s an old, old story: I had a friend and we shared everything, and then she died and so we shared that, too.” So begins this gorgeous memoir by Pulitzer Prize winner Ga...
EDITORIAL REVIEW: ** A story of food and love, injury and healing, *Keeping the Feast* is the triumphant memoir of one couple's nourishment and restoration in Italy after a period ...
A magical, heartwarming memoir from one of Hollywood’s most beloved iconsOver the past four decades, the landmark NBC hit television series I Dream of Jeannie...
An eloquent memoir of a young man's life transformed by literature. In A Jane Austen Education, Austen scholar William Deresiewicz turns to the author's novels to reveal the remark...
Review"The virtual world he imagined is now as real as concrete...the very fabric of a twenty-first century that he and a tiny club of others literally invented. Shy, humble, brill...
From Publishers WeeklyTold in free verse reminiscent of one of Kingston's idols, Walt Whitman, this uncommon memoir of the artist at 65 is informed by the wide margins on the pages...
SUMMARY: A frank, funny, no-holds-barred memoir that reveals the Deal or No Deal host’s ongoing struggle with OCD and ADHD–and how it has shaped his life and career. Howie Mandel i...