Everyone told Elissa Altman no one would read long-form food narratives online. Two memoirs and a James Beard Award later, Altman can finally say: Everyone was wrong.
By Megan Kaplon | Published: November 9, 2016
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Journalist and critic Margo Jefferson takes a collage approach for the personal and cultural narrative of her new memoir.
By Alicia Anstead, editor-in-chief; photo by Xan Padron | Published: March 28, 2016
The president who finished his memoir just in time.
By Chuck Leddy | Published: February 1, 2016
2015 National Book Critics Circle Award finalists on the covers of The Writer.
Published: January 20, 2016
Poet Elizabeth Alexander blends meter and family narrative in a lyrical memoir.
By Julie Krug | Published: January 20, 2016
The journalist & critic tells her story of growing up in the “black bourgeoisie” in 1960s Chicago.
Published: January 6, 2016
Inheriting the storyteller gene serves fiction and memoir.
By Lee Smith | Published: December 17, 2015
Helen Macdonald’s “H Is for Hawk” is a hybrid memoir about grief, the environment, family and a bird.
By Megan Kaplon, photos by Michele Stapleton | Published: December 7, 2015
Do you want to tell the story of your life?
By Alicia Anstead | Published: December 1, 2015
5 more young writers putting their mark on the writing world.
By Meredith Quinn, managing editor | Published: November 20, 2015
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