“I don’t believe in the afterlife as a reality, but I believe in the afterlife as metaphor, and my mother, from the afterlife, is metaphorically kicking my ass.” That’s Sherman… Read more »

Florida senator and presidential candidate Marco Rubio published his memoir, An American Son, in 2012, a year and a half into his first (and last) Senate term. The book—for which… Read more »

In the long history of monstrous criminals writing books, there are plenty of obstacles to publication. Sometimes the law intercedes, sometimes the killer doesn’t manage to sell the book, and… Read more »

It’s been nine years since James Frey admitted that A Million Little Pieces got billed as a memoir because he couldn’t get it sold as a novel. Nine! That’s enough… Read more »

There are two reasons I’m very happy about the recent runaway success of Pioneer Girl, Laura Ingalls Wilder’s annotated autobiography. The first reason is that an indie press hit it… Read more »

Last week, Olympic athlete and double amputee Oscar Pistorius was found not guilty of the murder of his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp, but guilty of culpable homicide and negligent handling of a… Read more »

Valérie Trierweiler has made headlines recently with the publication of her tell-all memoir about her relationship and very public breakup with French President François Hollande, Merci pour ce moment (Thank… Read more »

Ned O’Gorman, poet, author, and educator died earlier this month at the age of 84. He was the author of a memoir, The Other Side of Loneliness, a few books… Read more »

Lindsay Lohan, aka “LiLo,” aka “the 21st century’s Zelda Fitzgerald,” is about to sell a memoir to HarperCollins for about $1 million, according to unconfirmed reports. There’s no word as… Read more »

“I cannot say the word gay until I am thirty-nine.” In 2002, the Kenyan intellectual, writer, and satirist Binyavanga Wainaina won the Caine Prize for African Writing for the short story “Discovering Home”… Read more »