Joanna Adorján talks with SMITH about her new memoir, An Exclusive Love, a story about her grandparents’ suicides.

Angela Balcita talks to SMITH about changing expectations, the realization that memoir is only “a moment in time,” and why a recent New York Times piece infuriated her.

Mira Bartók talks about her writing process, her mother’s letters and journal entries, and the metaphor of a memory palace in her new memoir, The Memory Palace.

Allen Shawn, author of a new memoir, Twin, speaks about his twin sister, his family, and how writing and composing are closely related.

“Kerman, what do you think about being on the snow crew this winter, drive one of the plows? Pays forty cents an hour!”
Thinking of all the thousands of people out clearing snow up and down the East Coast this week, I wanted to share an “outtake” from my memoir Orange Is the New [...]

Heather Havrilesky talks about scraping her narrative raw and about how she began writing her new book, Disaster Preparedness–a memoir about her family and childhood.

Aaron Eske, author of the new memoir, My Family, A Symphony, talks with Lisa Qiu about growing up in rural Nebraska with siblings that are all internationally adopted.

I write nonfiction, so that’s a different set of choices to make. Unlike fiction, a memoir has not been written before you try to sell it. Once you’re in this process of writing, you’re already in the marketing.
Sometimes life doesn’t give us what we want, it gives us who we need. Julie Klam’s second book, [...]

Vivian Chum talks with Catherine Gildiner about her newest memoir, After the Falls, and what it meant to be a teenager in the ’60s in America.

Heather Sellers, author of the new memoir You Don’t Look Like Anyone I Know, talks with Vivian Chum about face blindness, writing memoir, and family.