Interview: Johanna Adorján, author of An Exclusive Love
Friday, February 25th, 2011Joanna Adorján talks with SMITH about her new memoir, An Exclusive Love, a story about her grandparents’ suicides.
Joanna Adorján talks with SMITH about her new memoir, An Exclusive Love, a story about her grandparents’ suicides.
Dave Itzkoff talks with SMITH about his new memoir, Cocaine’s Son.
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.
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.
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.
Memoirville recommends… a brief review of Paul Guest’s memoir, One More Theory About Happiness, on Bookslut. Guest writes about his life after a tragic bicycle accident at age twelve left him paralyzed. Reviewer Beth Harrington admits that the book feels like pieced together anecdotes, but cannot deny Guest’s stunning use of language to convey the [...]
A deeply personal graphic novel memoir about how Belle Yang recovered from an abusive boyfriend, in part by her father’s healing powers of storytelling.
Living at her parents’ home among the Mennonite community she had left years before, and reeling from the events of her life, Janzen realized she had a story to tell.
David Small’s graphic memoir, Stitches, is a beautifully rendered account of a horrifying childhood, drawn in shades of gray. He recently answered a few of Rebecca Touger’s questions.