Read an inspiring interview with Gail Caldwell about her memoir, Let’s Take the Long Way Home. She talks honestly and openly about what it was like to write about her friendship with Caroline Knapp and how she coped with her death.

Edward Ugel writes with pointed humor and frank honesty about his weight-loss journey in his new memoir, I’m With Fatty.

Memoirville recommends… an interview with Tom Grimes on Bookslut.
Tom Grimes writes a portrait of one of his teachers, Frank Conroy, author of the great memoir Stop-Time and director of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop for many years. His new book, Mentor: A Memoir, is Grimes’ memoir told through his relationship to Conroy. Grimes [...]

Harriet Brown writes a memoir about watching her daughter, Kitty, fall into the deadly traps of anorexia, and details how she and her family are still working toward recovery.

Memoirville recommends… an interview with Vivian Gornick on The Rumpus.
How does an author write about real events and real people in an honest, poignant way without hurting people’s feelings along the way? That’s the heart and soul of this interview with Gornick, in which she talks with interviewer Sari Botton about how she approaches the [...]

Memoirville recommends… an interview with Mac McClelland on The Rumpus.
McClelland is author of the memoir For Us Surrender is Out of the Question, a story about her time spent abroad in Thailand. Her book moves outside of a personal journey story, where most memoirs remain, and into the history and current atrocities committed by the [...]

Read an interview with Rachel Shukert, author of the hilarious memoir about her post-collegiate years traveling through Europe.

The new gambling memoir by Beth Raymer tells the story of how she ended up working as a professional gambler in Vegas–after waitressing, stripping, and running a porn site, among other things–and finally follows her into her life as a writer.

Randall Lane’s memoir follows a life of profligate spending to losing hundreds of thousands of dollars in a matter of years; The Zeroes is Lane’s personal, insider take on Wall Street’s collapse.

Memoirville recommends… an interview on Bookslut with Debra Monroe, author of a new memoir entitled On the Outskirts of Normal: Forging a Family Against the Grain.
Monroe’s memoir is her story of motherhood, transracial adoption, unstable relationships, and life in rural Texas. This interview focuses on storytelling, genre, and the struggles of autobiographical writing. The author [...]