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.
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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.
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.
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.
Book Review: “The Hero’s Body” — Let’s Get Physical
Giraldi was enticed by the fraternity of the gym as a way of filling out and firming up both his body and his sense of self.
Book Review: “The Girl with the Lower Back Tattoo” — A Mundane Stream of Consciousness
Amy Schumer’s quasi-memoir is composed of stuff that would be better off posted on Facebook.
Fuse Book Review: Australian Master Tim Winton — Writer Turned Ecowarrior
Tim Winton’s memoir about how deeply Australia’s landscape shaped him and his writing.
Stage Review: In The Body of the World — Our Bodies, Ourselves, Our Worlds
This is a rich evening of theater because it takes up social and psychological problems that aren’t ordinarily addressed on our stages.
Book Review: Marceline Loridan-Ivens’ Memoir of Surviving the Nazi Death Camps
In contrast to similar extermination-camp memoirs, But You Did Not Come Back focuses on the affliction of women.
Fuse Book Review: Living With the Spenders—Surviving an Odd Childhood
One must be impressed by memoirist Matthew Spender, who refuses to descend into resentment or anything resembling self-pity despite a very strange childhood.