Tag Archives: Memoir

'Red Fire: Growing Up During the Chinese Cultural Revolution' by Wei Yang Chao is an eloquent account of how China's Cultural Revolution impacted individuals, families and the country.

Kevin Hart wrapped up a successful tour for the release of his memoir, 'I Can't Make This Up: Life Lessons', including one stop at Politics and Prose Bookstore in D.C.

The Case study approach of Michael Rubinstein's 'Beyond Bedlam's Door' provides a worthy look at psychiatry, forensic psychiatry, and the human condition.

An interview with Liz Crocker, coauthor of the self-help book, 'Transforming Memories: Sharing Spontaneous Writing Using Loaded Words,' which offers a powerful writing technique for healing from old wounds.

Railroad cars brought the author's father and mother to Auschwitz, but railroad cars also brought them from Auschwitz, eventually to the town where they would try to start fresh and raise a family. His book is a loving, questioning, aching letter from a onetime little boy to the father the Nazis took from him.

"I Was Saved by the Bell" by Peter Engel is far more than a trip down memory lane to Bayside High. It show you a man who dedicated his life and his talents to making the world a better place and how we are all better people because of it.

Interview with T.J. and Jenn Menn, authors of 'Faith to Foster', recounting their experiences providing foster care for twenty-two children.

Alexandra Weinbaum's book, 'Careful Old Letters: A Jewish Family's Story,' is an evocative tale of personal discovery and Holocaust history, based on a box of old letters sent from the Jewish ghettos of Europe during WWII.

Ever heard of a soundtrack to a book? Neither had this writer until Moby's 'Music from Porcelain.' Guess what? It makes sense. PLUS, it's damn good.

The following is a chapter from my upcoming memoir ‘Prospero’s Daughter: A Life Beyond Convention.’ The Battle of ‘The Fountainhead’ Ocala National Forest, Florida, Spring 1960   We kids stood around outside, under the dry scratch and whisper of live oak leaves. In late morning, the sun was getting hot. …