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

April 10, 2018
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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.

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Book Review: “The Hero’s Body” — Let’s Get Physical

November 6, 2016
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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.

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Book Review: “The Girl with the Lower Back Tattoo” — A Mundane Stream of Consciousness

September 16, 2016
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Amy Schumer’s quasi-memoir is composed of stuff that would be better off posted on Facebook.

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Book Review: Australian Master Tim Winton — Writer Turned Ecowarrior

May 31, 2016
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Tim Winton’s memoir about how deeply Australia’s landscape shaped him and his writing.

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Stage Review: In The Body of the World — Our Bodies, Ourselves, Our Worlds

May 25, 2016
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This is a rich evening of theater because it takes up social and psychological problems that aren’t ordinarily addressed on our stages.

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Book Review: Marceline Loridan-Ivens’ Memoir of Surviving the Nazi Death Camps

December 23, 2015
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In contrast to similar extermination-camp memoirs, But You Did Not Come Back focuses on the affliction of women.

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Fuse Book Review: Living With the Spenders—Surviving an Odd Childhood

November 18, 2015
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One must be impressed by memoirist Matthew Spender, who refuses to descend into resentment or anything resembling self-pity despite a very strange childhood.

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Book Review: “Your Band Sucks” — Plying the Murky Terrain of Indie Rock

August 21, 2015
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Guitarist Jon Fine’s memoir is an intriguing blend of history, sociology, entertainment, and a healthy dose of after-hours pulp.

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Book Review: No “Odd Woman” Out — Vivian Gornick’s Richly Engaging Memoir

May 28, 2015
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Author Vivian Gornick’s discontent is foundational, fertile, unquenchable, except by writing, and quite often funny.

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Book Review: Oliver Sacks’ “On The Move” — A Mix of the Distant and the Intimate

May 20, 2015
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Oliver Sacks’ On the Move is an absorbing, idiosyncratic, often moving memoir.

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