Book Review: I Hate Myselfie
/Wildly popular YouTube phenomenon Shane Dawson now has a BOOK!
Read MoreBook Review: Sympathy for the Devil
/Michael Mewshaw comes not to praise Gore Vidal but to bury him in this new memoir of a friendship that did not outlast Mr. Vidal's funeral.
Read MoreThe Art of the Con
/Years ago, while on the hunt for writing material, Walter Kirn befriended an eccentric, dog-loving raconteur named Clark Rockefeller. Then Rockefeller was charged with murder, kidnapping and identity fraud, and Kirn had his book. G. Robert Ogilvy reviews Blood Will Out.
Read MoreBook Review: Dancing Fish and Ammonites
/Long-time novelist Penelope Lively turns 80 - and turns to memoir-writing
Read MoreBook Review: My Mistake
/A life-long writer and editor looks back on his life
Read MoreHomo Sovieticus
/The USSR's Book of Tasty and Healthy Food created an impression of bounty and gourmet splendor; Anya von Bremzen's memoir Mastering the Art of Soviet Cooking reveals the Soviet kitchen's homelier truths
Read MoreBook Review: A California Childhood
/The Hollywood actor and star of "Howl" produces a heavily-illustrated book of snippets and short stories, for reasons that are either unclear or all too clear, depending on whose Twitter you follow
Read MoreTraveler at his Desk
/Burgess gave himself room to stretch his arms (and facts) in the two volumes of his Confessions. That space to digress, opine, sing songs, is what makes both books so memorable -- even indispensable.
Read MoreBook Review: Joseph Anton
/The great novelist tells the beguiling story of the man he became in order to escape a death sentence
Read MoreBook Review: Midstream
/The posthumous memoir of a beloved Southern writer
Read MoreClassics Reissued: What's to Become of the Boy?
/A pretty new reprint of the great German writers' memoir of boyhood under the Nazis in Cologne.
Read MoreSimple Man
/No American president in a generation has so polarized the country as George W. Bush, and his new book will almost certainly polarize its readers. Is it defiant agitprop or heartfelt memoir?
Read MoreSan Francisco: 1972
/An excerpt from Edmund White’s forthcoming memoir City Boy
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