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Book Review: ‘Rise Above: How One Man’s Search for Mobility Helped the World...
Rise Above by Ralph W. Braun, a memoir The year is 1946. You are six years old. Your cousin tells you it won’t matter if you clean off the pills you just spilled in the dirt driveway; that even if you...
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Book Review: ‘ Report From the Interior’ by Paul Auster
Following up his 2012 memoir Winter Journal, which was devoted to his physical development and decay, novelist Paul Auster turns to his moral and intellectual maturation in his new memoir, Report From...
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Book Review: ‘My Life in Politics’ by Jacques Chirac
My Life in Politics by Jacques Chirac is a political memoir detailing the French politicians rise to power and fame as well as his diverse career in government. During his tenure Mr. Chirac met many...
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Book Review: ‘Break the Chains’ by Dr. Jay D Roberts, MD
Break the Chains is an inspirational, compelling memoir about forgiveness. Dr. Jay D Roberts takes the reader on an interesting and enlightening journey, from the time he was a little boy raised by a...
View ArticleBook Review: ‘Writing Is My Drink: A Writer’s Story of Finding Her Voice (and...
The memoir genre is at its best when the author shows us all that she learns through her own writing process. This was never more true than here in Writing Is My Drink, by Theo Pauline Nestor. Here,...
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Interview: Gerald Freeman, Author of ‘Kill Daddy’
Gerald Freeman left England at the age of 19, bored with his prospects and in search of something to do with the rest of his life. He hitched around Europe for seven years, allowing fate to guide the...
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Book Review: ‘I Chose to Be a U.S. Marine’ by George W. Carrington
Memoirs are peculiar creatures. They can be delightful jaunts into personal pasts, tying together “abstract” historical events with real people; they can be a tedious recounting of uneventful and...
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Interview: Joan Heartwell, Author of ‘Hamster Island’
Joan Heartwell makes her living as a pen for hire. She blogs for various companies, writes a fashion article, and writes, ghostwrites and edits for fellow authors and would-be authors. In addition to...
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Book Review: ‘Buck ‘Em! The Autobiography of Buck Owens’
Buck Owens had one of the signature sounds in country music. His posthumous memoir, written with Randy Poet, includes introductions by Brad Paisley and Dwight Yoakam, contemporary country superstars...
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Book Review: ‘How to Write a Memoir in 30 Days’ by Roberta Temes
Everyone has a story to tell. Even if you think that your story is not interesting enough for the general public to want to read it or publishers to want to publish it, your children and grandchildren...
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Book Review: ‘A Grandfather’s Gift’ by James E. Smith, Sr.
In A Grandfather’s Gift, James E. Smith, Sr. brings together his family history and his fond memories of growing up in Mississippi. In the introduction of this book the author is very upfront about...
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Book Review: ‘How to Write a Memoir in 30 Days’ by Roberta Temes, Ph.D.
Especially powerful as an aid to new writers or those trying to organize a first memoir, author Roberta Temes, Ph.D. gives you a daily structure to capture your story. How to Write a Memoir in 30 Days...
View ArticleBook Review: ‘How to Write a Memoir in 30 Days’ by Roberta Temes, PhD
Did you ever want to write your memoir but didn’t know where to start? Did you not know how long it would take to write a memoir? If you answered both of these questions in the affirmative, this book...
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Book Review: ‘Let the Tornado Come’ by Rita Zoey Chin
This is a great memoir about one woman’s look at her life. It is beautifully written and yet very poignant and sad in places. I couldn’t put the book down after I started reading it. I love reading...
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Interview: Faye Rapoport DesPres, Author of ‘Message from a Blue Jay’
Faye Rapoport was born in New York City and has lived in upstate New York, Colorado, England, and Israel. She earned Bachelor’s and Master’s Degrees from Brandeis University and the State University of...
View ArticleInterview: Comedian Todd Glass, Author of ‘The Todd Glass Situation’
Comedian Todd Glass has written a brave, amusing book about the hardest challenge of his life: Coming out. The Todd Glass Situation: A Bunch of Lies About My Personal Life And A Bunch of True Stories...
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The Funeral
At my grandmother’s funeral in 1973 the plans were well laid; every detail even to the appointment of six pallbearers had been arranged, but while I waited in a family line outside the church with my...
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Book Review: “Dear Leader” by Jang Jin-Sung
For years we’ve struggled trying to understand North Korea and its policies and actions. But as a favorite poet of North Korea’s Kim Jung-Il puts it, “North Korea’s opacity is its greatest strength.”...
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Book Review: ‘My Salinger Year’ by Joanna Rakoff
In his novel The Catcher in the Rye, J.D. Salinger’s character Holden Caulfield uses the phrase “quiet emotional” in place of the more typical “quite emotional.” My Salinger Year is a quiet emotional...
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Interview: Julie Freed, Author of ‘Naked: Stripped by a Man and Hurricane...
Sometimes in life when negative things happen, you can either let it destroy you, or you can muster enough strength to not let these bad things define who you are as a person. No one can safely escape...
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