Memoir Posts
How Does a Woman Become a Writer?
"The writers who interest me most, always, are women who write about themselves in ways that a male writer never could."
Poetry Feels Like Memory to Me
"Something of the intensity of feeling, sparseness of narrative and intricacy of images in poetry feels like memory itself to me."
No Longer a Footnote: Extraordinary Lives
History is too often told through the texture of men’s lives. In recent years, the rise of women’s biography and memoir has sought to rectify that, …
Persian-Canadian Writers You've Got to Read
So, where were all the Persian Canadian writers? It turns out, here all along, but not as represented as one might hope; as they deserve to be.
12 Books for International Women's Day
Can you hear them now? If you can't, you're not listening. Recent memoirs and biographies about remarkable women would make great picks for International …
Dazzling Memoirs
Marjorie Simmins, author of MEMOIR: CONVERSATIONS AND CRAFT, recommends her dream lineup of memoirs.
16 books
HGD - Biography + Memoir
A Taster: Spring 2021 Nonfiction Preview
Life stories, family, baseball, and retreat. These highlight the nonfiction we're most looking forward to this spring.
5 books
Editors' Picks: Week of Nov 23, 2020
25 Reasons to be Hopeful
The following books are infused with hope—that what we do and who we are really matters, that second chances are possible, and so too is a better world. …