Joan Didion’s The White Album was first published in 1979 and can be considered a follow-up to her Slouching Towards…
Nancy Chapple
Jane Juska’s first book is a memoir that takes as its starting point what happened when she placed an ad…
Does the narrator of a memoir need to be likeable? What if he’s particularly unsympathetic? What if the life he…
Dispatches was praised by John le Carre as "the best book I have ever read on men and war in…
One "minor character" is accorded just half a sentence in biographies of cult author Jack Kerouac: he had "an erratic…
In 1979, Jonathan Raban journeyed down the Mississippi from Minneapolis to New Orleans in a specially equipped 16-foot motorboat. Quite…
Mary McCarthy’s first novel plunges into the psyche of a young married woman in the 1930’s who is starting an…