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Book Review: Selma Blair’s “Mean Baby” — Genuine Self-Reflection

Actress and MS advocate Selma Blair’s memoir is not just another celebrity tell-all, filled with smarmy self-congratulation.

By: Henry Chandonnet Filed Under: Books, Featured, Review Tagged: Henry Chandonnet, Mean Baby, memoir, Selma Blair

Book Review: Sarah Ruhl’s “Smile: The Story of a Face”

This is the voice of a wife, mother, sister, daughter, friend, patient, and author who wrote a memoir on her own terms. I can’t wait for Sarah Ruhl’s next play.

By: Helen Epstein Filed Under: Books, Featured, Review, Theater Tagged: Bell’s Palsy, Culture Vulture, Helen Epstein, memoir, Sarah-Ruhl, Smile

Music Interview: Guitarist and Singer-Songwriter Richard Thompson on His Memoir, “Beeswing”

“I really thought that I could sustain a life in music, but perhaps I’d end up in Las Vegas backing Tom Jones or something.”

By: Blake Maddux Filed Under: Featured, Interview, Music, Preview Tagged: Beeswing, Fairport Convention, memoir, Richard Thompson

Arts Remembrance: “Why Not Say What Happened” — Morris Dickstein’s Memoir About Living a Life of the Mind

RIP Morris Dickstein, among the last of the generation of the New York School of Jewish intellectuals, scholar/critics of massive knowledge and intellect who came from humble backgrounds.

By: Gerald Peary Filed Under: Books, Review Tagged: American literature, Columbia University, criticism, memoir, Morris Dickstein, Why Not Say What Happened: A Sentimental Education

Author Interview: Critic Morris Dickstein — “We Need a New Minority Culture”

“Arts journalism should meet the same high standard as other forms of writing but rarely does, even in the good old days.”

By: Bill Marx Filed Under: Books, Featured, Interview Tagged: Columbia University, memoir, Morris Dickstein, Why Not Say What Happened: A Sentimental Education

Book Review: Nashville Songwriter Aimee Mayo is “Talking to the Sky”

Nashville songwriter Aimee Mayo’s memoir offers an eye-opening perspective on the problematic treatment of women in the country music industry.

By: Chelsea Spear Filed Under: Books, Featured, Music, Popular Music, Review Tagged: Aimee Mayo, Chelsea Spear, memoir, Talking to the Sky

Book Review: “Franci’s War” — A Very Relevant Holocaust Memoir

Here we have the story of a young Czech woman who could not only take a piece of fabric and shape it into a gorgeous dress, but could also take her experiences during WWII and shape them into a compelling memoir.

By: Roberta Silman Filed Under: Books, Featured, Review Tagged: A Woman’s Story of Survival, Franci Rabinek Epstein, Franci’s War, Helen Epstein, Holocaust, memoir

Book Review: “Another Life” — Curing Writer’s Block

This slender memoir reads like a rambling conversation with a literary stranger you meet on a train.

By: Helen Epstein Filed Under: Books, Featured, Review Tagged: Another Life, Culture Vulture, memoir, nonfiction, Other Press, Theodor Kallifatides

Book Review: “Educated” — An Exemplary Memoir

Educated is a testament to the power of sensitive friends and mentors — and to Tara Westover’s own resilience.

By: Helen Epstein Filed Under: Books, Featured, Review Tagged: Educated, memoir, Tara Westover

Book Review: “No Way Home” — A Memoir with Quirk and Heft

No Way Home is a model for how to tell a weird, complicated story in a way that will make the reader hang on tight for the whole ride.

By: Katharine Coldiron Filed Under: Books, Featured, Review Tagged: memoir, No Way Home, Tyler Wetherall

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