The following is an excerpt from Kaylie Jones’s new memoir, Lies My Mother Never Told Me. Be sure to check out her interview with Miranda Martin here.
Lies My Mother Never Told Me
Part I
I used alcohol as the magical conduit to fantasy and euphoria,
and to the enhancement of the imagination. There is no need to
either rue [...]

Kaylie Jones’s new book, Lies My Mother Never Told Me, is all about the truth: her mother died a slow, horrible death as an alcoholic—a fate Jones could have shared were it not for her own journey to sobriety. In her new memoir, she shares that story for the first time.

In Cooking Dirty, Denver food critic Jason Sheehan makes his point abundantly clear: Normal, emotionally well-adjusted people do not cook for a living. Chris Teja chats with him about food, writing, and life.

The following is an excerpt from Cooking Dirty by Jason Sheehan. Be sure to check out Chris Teja’s recent interview with Sheehan.
Prologue: Florida, 1998
Saturday night, early, no one was able to find a rhythm. We kept getting popped, then stalled, taking five tables like BangBangBangBangBang, then nothing for ten minutes. The FNG fell into [...]

Last year we featured an interview with Cathy Alter on the eve of the release of her memoir, Up For Renewal: What Magazines Taught Me About Love, Sex, and Starting Over. At the not-so-ripe-old age of 37, Alter had hit rock bottom. Up For Renewal recounts her journey to claw her way back. At the [...]

Philip Smith’s memoir, Walking Through Walls, is about his father, a Miami interior decorator-turned-psychic healer, and about his own ensuing teenage rebellion. We recently sat down and asked him a few questions—from one SMITH to another.

The following is an excerpt from Philip Smith’s Walking Through Walls. Be sure to check out our interview with Smith here.
PROLOGUE
It was late July.
The summer mangoes had dropped from the trees and were lying rotting on the ground, ripped open by feasting bugs and birds.  Their intoxicating sweet smell mixed with the heaviness of the [...]

Kipp Friedman returns for a piece about the office of his father, the famous playwright and novelist Bruce Jay Friedman. Check out “The Barracuda in the Attic” and Kipp’s other piece for SMITH.

Novella Carpenter shares her adventures as a locavore, dumpster diver, farmer, butcher, and neighbor to some of the quirkiest real-life characters imaginable when she talks about her new memoir, Farm City.

Lynne Sharon Schwartz’s new memoir, Not Now, Voyager, weighs the pros and cons of travel as the she relates her own misadventures around the globe. She recently sat down and answered a few of my questions on her writing.