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.

Wade Rouse headed for the woods with a copy of Walden and a vision of remaking himself in rural life. Things didn’t go quite according to plan. Read an interview with Rouse about his new memoir.

Chris Teja interviews Jack McLean about his new memoir, Loon, a first-person account of his long and unpredictable journey from confused teenager to Marine to, finally, student at Harvard University.

Rebecca Touger interviews Danzy Senna, author of Where Did You Sleep Last Night? Senna’s memoir is an account of a childhood complicated by divorce and racial identity, and of a search through both sides of her family’s history for answers.

Ramen enthusiast Ty Wenger talks to Andy Raskin about his new memoir, The Ramen King and I, a book that’s about much more than instant noodles.

Satirist Joe Queenan finds a lot of things funny, but not his childhood. He grew up poor in the projects, where his alcoholic father was better at beating his children than holding down a steady job. Queenan talks about his new memoir, Closing Time.

Stripper-turned-”Juno” screenwriter Diablo Cody talks with stripper-turned-Army wife Lily Burana about her new memoir, I Love a Man in Uniform.

Suzanne Guillette wanted to publish a book of strangers’ most embarrassing moments, but in the end, she decided that her own experiences were the ones worth writing about. She speaks with Lisa Qiu about Much to Your Chagrin.

Mei-Ling Hopgood was adopted by an American couple when she was a baby. She never made any attempt to contact her birth family, but twenty years later, they contacted her. She talks with Andrea Kahn about her new memoir, Lucky Girl.