Kathleen Rooney’s memoir is a collection of eleven essays that include references to both feminism and bikini waxes, tirades against plagiarism, reflections on what it means to work for a prominent state Senator, and meditations on nuns and humility.

Daniel Nester’s new book, How to Be Inappropriate, is an interesting, mostly humorous look at people’s overly polite and politically correct attitudes. We talk with him about putting it together, farts, mooning, and Robot Gene Simmons.

Eugene Rubin’s memoir Headlock: Chronicles of a Psychiatrist’s Son explores teenage angst in 1970s New York City as framed by the powerful hold of his celebrated psychiatrist/author father. Rubin explores the finer points of male adolescence while breaking down each anecdote in a way that only a psychiatrist can.

Nick Flynn’s newest book, The Ticking is the Bomb, emerged from his response to the leaked photos from Abu Ghraib in 2004. This second memoir is his attempt at illumination upon the cultural darkness that followed.

During his three months in 1976 Port Arthur, Texas, Michael Antman worked as door-to-door Bible salesman and administrative assistant to a pimp, among other bizarre experiences. One identity-shattering event left him rethinking that summer for thirty years.

Dr. Laurie Ann Levin wrote her new memoir God, the Universe, and Where I Fit In to share her personal experiences as a Hollywood talent agent–turned Doctor of Clinical Psychology and spiritual guide.

Valentino Achak Deng partnered with author Dave Eggers to create What is the What, his autobiography and the story of millions of Sudanese who experienced the atrocities of civil war.

Yagoda talks about his audacious chronicle of the memoir, one that spans thousands of memoirs and hundreds of years—and manna for anyone obsessed by personal storytelling.

The Year of Loving Dangerously is the story of what happened when as a 20-year-old Ted Rall narrowly avoided homelessness by spending the night with as many women as possible, all while trying to get his life back together.

In his debut memoir, Long Past Stopping, Oran Canfield, whose father authored the ubiquitous Chicken Soup for the Soul series, unpacks the numerous bizarre stories he collected along his road to recovery from drug addiction.