Kristin Kimball talks to Edward Lovett about leaving her life in Manhattan to start a farm in upstate New York. She discusses her writing models, farming models, and the importance of the sustainable agriculture community.

Memoirville recommends… an interview with Megan Stack on The Rumpus.
Stack is author of the book, Every Man In This Village Is A Liar, a memoir that recounts the six years she spent as a reporter in the Middle East. She speaks with interviewer Michelle Orange about war reporting, the complexities of truth in journalism, and [...]

Vanessa Davis, author of the recently released anthology, Make Me a Woman, talks to SMITH about creating comics, her tools, and how she portrays those closest to her.

Memoirville recommends… a short piece on The Millions about the “Rock Memoir,” its downfalls, and more specifically, Keith Richards’ new memoir, Life, co-written with James Fox.

Mark Vonnegut, M.D., author of the new memoir Just Like Someone Without Mental Illness Only More So, talks about why he writes memoir and what he learned from his father.

Before downloadable e-books and Amazon’s computer-generated recommendations, there was good, old-fashioned hand-selling of books, the preferred method of Jonathan Papernick. The author of three books, most recently a collection of short stories, There Is No Other, Papernick has taken on the alter-ego of ‘Papernick the Book Peddler’ to promote his books in face-to-face interactions during [...]

The first memoir I remember reading was Roald Dahl’s Boy: Tales of Childhood. As a girl in Los Angeles in the early nineties, I was not particularly interested in the life of Dahl as a boy living in Britain in the twenties, but I had decided that I had to read every Roald Dahl book [...]

Bill Clegg and Darin Strauss find each other in conversation again about their memoirs, Portrait of an Addict as a Young Man and Half a Life.

Melissa Febos, author of Whip Smart, and Sara Marcus, author of Girls to the Front, talk to each other about their books, narratives, and writing openly and honestly.

Interviewer Rachel Lehmann-Haupt talks with Phoebe Potts about her new graphic memoir, Good Eggs, in which she draws and writes about her odyssey through fertility problems and making a family.