How a playwright and memoir spends his Sundays
Playwright and storyteller Alvin Eng grew up with five siblings in a house near the family business, the Foo J. ...
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A memoir about growing up gay in oil country
BOYS AND OIL: Growing up gay in a broken countryby Taylor BrorbyYears ago, I had a college student who wrote ...
A memoir of friendship and death in a holiday idyll
THE SUMMER FRIENDa memoirBy Charles McGrathWhen I was a kid, my family wasn't big on vacations. Money was scarce and ...
Colin Kaepernick publishes memoir
As Colin Kaepernick neared the end of high school, he had to make a decision: he could play baseball, for ...
How a debut graphic memoir became the country’s most banned book
Coming out as a bisexual in high school was relatively easy: Maia Kobabe lived in the liberal San Francisco Bay ...
Your Son Comes Out Tomorrow: Randy Rainbow’s Memoir of Love, Turmoil and Trump
Rainbow's struggle was the relationship with his father, which was toxic, his mother said. The father, Jerry, was a drummer ...
New memoir brimming with humor, warmth and spiky intelligence
The title of Chloé Cooper Jones' first book: SIMPLE BEAUTY (288 pp., avid reader, $28) — comes from a philosophical ...
Margo Jefferson’s new memoir experiments with form in surprising ways
BUILDING A NERVOUS SYSTEMa memoirBy Margo Jefferson197 pages. Pantheon books. $27.If Margo Jefferson had taken up another profession—say, furniture making—she ...
Sara Suleri Goodyear dies at age 68; Known for Memoir of Pakistan
"Against all my own odds, I know what to say," she wrote. "Because, I'll answer slowly, there are no women ...
Jeremy Denk’s memoir contains music, love and more music
Denk's defining relationships were with his piano teachers, not with peers. In the beginning, there was Lillian Livingston, who carefully ...
