I’m giving a zoom talk the evening of April 13, 2022 on the way that memoir writers use novelistic techniques to make their memoirs, well, memorable. If you’re just reading this today, you can sign up here. I don’t know yet if the program will be recorded to be available later, but if it is, I will let you know.
Here’s a list that includes some of the memoirs I’ll talk about; they’re all great memoirs and I’m hoping you’ve read some of them! Many of them are older titles, but I love ’em. The cookbook is filled with great anecdotes as well as great recipes. I’ve cited the original hardcover editions but many are available in paperback.
More on this subject in forthcoming posts!
Beckerman, Ilene. Love, Loss, and What I Wore. Algonquin Books, 1995.
Bruder, Jessica. Nomadland: Surviving America in the Twenty-First Century. W.W. Norton, 2017.
Conroy, Pat. My Losing Season. Nan A. Talese/Doubleday, 2002.
Conway, Jill, Ker. The Road From Coorain. Knopf, 1989.
Dubner, Stephen. Turbulent Souls: A Catholic Son’s Return to His Jewish Family. William Morrow, 1998.
Fuller, Alexandra. Don’t Let’s Go to the Dogs Tonight. Random House, 2001.
Giobbi, Ed. Italian Family Cooking. Random House, 1971.
Goodwin, Doris Kearns. Wait Till Next Year. Simon & Schuster, 1997.
Gornick, Vivian. Fierce Attachments: A Memoir. Reprint. Beacon Press, 1997.
Hoffman, Eva. Lost in Translation: A Life in a New Language. E.P. Dutton, 1989.
Karr, Mary. The Liar’s Club. Viking Press, 1995.
Painter, Nell. Old in Art School: A Memoir of Starting Over. Counterpoint, 2018.
Remen, Rachel Naomi. Kitchen Table Wisdom. Riverhead, 1996.
Smarsh, Sara. Heartland: A Memoir of Working Hard and Being Broke in the Richest Country on Earth. Scribner, 2018.
Noah, Trevor. Born a Crime: Stories From a South African Childhood. One World, 2016.
Umrigar, Thrity. First Darling of the Morning. Harper Perennial, 2008
Wolff, Tobias. This Boy’s Life. Atlantic Monthly Press, 1989.
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