“It seems impossible for me to be pregnant now. All of the years of drunken sex with strangers, forgotten birth-control pills, weekend trips blurred from substance abuse, my year of so-called nymphomania. My name is Rebecca and I’m a sex addict. But I wasn’t a sex addict. I was just lonely.”
Chapter 1. Holy Shit, I’m […]

Blogger Rebecca Woolf’s new memoir, ROCKABYE: From Wild to Child (Seal Press) (read an excerpt) is about finding herself unexpectedly pregnant at 23 and her journey to become a mother and wife without losing herself in the process. Rebecca and I G-chatted about sex, baby weight, and the blogosphere while I was in a Brooklyn […]

Anyone who just enjoyed, or possibly survived, their family’s Passover Seder this past weekend can relate to SMITH member Mia’s essay in My Life So Far. Her story, Family Time, is ostensibly about coming home for the holidays and discovering that her sister’s bulldog is wearing a diaper (and who hasn’t been there?), but really […]

SMITH readers who first got a taste of Jason Thompson’s work via his then-memoir in progress, Stella: A Memoir, will be pleased to learn that the work will now be published as a full-length book on Lulu, the online, publisher on demand. Stella is an original, intense, and at times darkly funny memoir about Thompson’s […]

One of the highlights of our book tour was spending Valentine’s Day with hundreds of other awkward single people (and one couple that wouldn’t stop licking each other’s faces) at a live Mortified event in Los Angeles. It was everything we hope to someday achieve with a SMITH Slam—great writing, brilliant comedy, perfect projections and […]

Obviously, the story of the hour (and day, week, month, and year) is the Six-Word Memoir Book. But if you’ve already read ‘em, written ‘em, and bought a hundred and six books, you might be craving something longer. Click over to Memoirville for an excerpt from Felicia Sullivan’s new book The Sky Isn’t Visible From […]

I’m going to disclose right here that I know Felicia Sullivan, author of the new memoir The Sky Isn’t Visible From Here. Not especially well, but from the New York writery scene—a book party here, a KGB reading there. She’s a blogger, an online marketing whiz, a radio host, and the founder of a terrific […]

Once upon a time there was a woman who dreamed of writing a book. She had a husband, a waitressing job, and four children, but she also had talent and determination. Eventually she finished it, and scored an agent and a book deal. All that remained was the dream come true—and, of course, the grueling […]

(read the first installment of Green Girl at the Eco-Inn here)
Though the season is technically over, I’ve decided to stay open year round. Why not? The people are lovely and my sanity is intact. As this venture has proved fiscally viable, I’m also exploring ways to expand the inn.
This will involve renting my […]

When I was growing up, any time my mother observed two of her children doing something alike—wearing the same color, picking out the same pair of sneakers in the shoe store—she’d laughingly ask, “What are you, The Bobbsey Twins?”
I find myself saying it today, but I doubt many of my own generation understand the second-hand […]