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Marcia Gay Harden’s Powerful Memoir Honors Her Mother

A well-known actress from both stage and screen, Marcia Gay Harden tells the story of her life in the context of memories she has with her mother in her memoir, The Seasons of My Mother (Atria). Their close relationship is so beautiful and all the more painful as her mother’s memory…

Jennifer BlankfeinMay 21, 2018

Nonfiction

The Man Who Brought Cherry Blossoms to D.C., and Other Fun Facts

Each spring, thousands of tourists travel to our nation’s capital to see the Tidal Basin swathed in clouds of cherry blossom pink. Peak bloom this year is predicted to be March 17-20 but festivities will continue for the following four weeks. The first flowering cherry trees were planted more than…

BookTribMarch 29, 2018

Nonfiction

Morgan Jerkins’ ‘This Will Be My Undoing’ is Timely Portrait of Womanhood in America

One of the most prolific of these to be released this year is Morgan Jerkins' debut, This Will Be My Undoing: Living at the Intersection of Black, Female, and Feminist in (White) America. Jerkins' collection of essays is a timely discourse on the treatment and experiences of Black women in…

Monet TimmonsFebruary 7, 2018

Nonfiction

Sacred and Complex, Amy Bloom’s ‘White Houses’ Chronicles First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt’s Secret Affair

One of the highlights of my year, thus far, was interviewing bestselling author, Amy Bloom about her new book, White Houses. Released in time for Valentine's Day (February 13, Penguin Random House) with rave reviews from the likes of Joyce Carol Oates, White Houses is a love story about a complex affair…

Aisha K. StaggersFebruary 14, 2018

Nonfiction

From One Survivor to Another: A Posthumous Memoir Brings Two Sickle Cell Survivors Together

Gail Woolley was told at the age of seven that she, along with her brother, would not live past the age of thirty five. Unfortunately, Gail’s brother lived a different lifestyle than she did and proved the doctor’s prognosis to be true, but Gail did not. She was determined prove…

Jennifer K. Moore SmithJanuary 25, 2018

Nonfiction

Tragic, Praiseworthy and Monumental: Review of Tara Westover’s ‘Educated’

Tara Westover's coming-of-age story in her memoir Educated, is incredible, tragic, praiseworthy and monumental. From a young girl loving and believing everything her parents tell her, to questioning their logic and actively pursuing different answers and other ways of thinking, Westover has always had the inherent desire to know more. Reminiscent of…

Jennifer BlankfeinJanuary 11, 2018

Nonfiction

ICYMI: ‘A Place of Hope’: Eric L. Motley on His Life in the Historic Madison Park Community

The Madison Park community in Montgomery, Alabama, has one of the most interesting and important histories in the country. Founded in 1880 by fourteen former slaves, they established a school, a church, and ultimately, a philosophy of community that has lasted for generations. One such person to be raised there…

Rachel Fogle De SouzaNovember 13, 2017

Nonfiction

Chef Nobu Matsuhisa’s New Memoir is Comfort Food for the Literary Soul

Not many people have lead a life like that of Nobu Matsuhisa. Born in Saitama, Japan, he and his brother were raised solely by their mother, their father dying in a traffic accident when Matsuhisa was just seven years old. After graduating high school, he worked at a restaurant for seven…

Rachel Fogle De SouzaNovember 9, 2017

Nonfiction

YouTube Star Hannah Hart’s ‘Unshared Tales of a Life Fully Loaded’

With a Youtube show titled My Drunk Kitchen, where social media star Hannah Hart gets drunk and dubiously tries to cook (or bake) things, you would expect her memoir to be lighthearted, comedic, even self-deprecating view of her life - on the contrary, however; Buffering: Unshared Tales of a Life Fully Loaded is…

Rachel Fogle De SouzaSeptember 19, 2017

Nonfiction

Yale’s Secret Societies Are Revealed in ‘Skulls and Keys’

Secret societies have always held a certain fascination for America, the mystery around their operations and initiations inspiring hundreds of rumors of just how much influence they have, and how far that influence can reach. In an era of sororities and fraternities becoming more open and public with their workings,…

Rachel Fogle De SouzaSeptember 18, 2017

Nonfiction

The Books Are Better: ‘Snowden’ is a Failure, at Least by Oliver Stone’s Standards

Who would have thought that Oliver Stone would play it safe? I certainly wouldn’t think the JFK and Platoon helmsman would decide to pull back when exploring one of the most important stories of the early 21st century regarding our privacy. But I'm here to tell you, Stone played it too…

Matt GillickSeptember 19, 2016

Nonfiction

Just Let It Happen: The Joy of Leaving Your Sh*t All Over the Place

If you’ve been talking to your clothes while folding them lovingly in an attempt to make your life more “tidy,” you should take a long, hard look at yourself, according to author Jennifer McCartney. Her new book, The Joy of Leaving Your Sh*t All Over the Place: The Art of…

Katie HiresJuly 18, 2016

Nonfiction

Review: Pulitzer Prize Winner Siddhartha Mukherjee’s Laws of Medicine

We’ve been trained—from childhood—to trust our doctors; some patients trust their doctors absolutely. For many, it can be unnerving to hear a doctor discuss what he or she doesn’t know—and admitting that what we do know about medicine is a tiny speck in the vast universe of what has yet…

Michael RuscoeOctober 21, 2015

Nonfiction

Review: French Cooking Finds a Tasty New Groove in Bistronomy

The next time you order a haricot verts salad with carefully selected seasonal produce or a fresh plate of creamy burrata from a small plates menu, just remember where it all started: Paris, France, 1992. In Bistronomy: Recipes from the Best New Paris Bistros (Rizzoli; September 22, 2015) author and…

Amanda HarknessOctober 7, 2015

Nonfiction

Review: Ruth Reichl Shares the Recipes that Saved Her Life in My Kitchen Year

What is it about Ruth Reichl that makes her feel like an old friend? If anyone else had lost what might have been the most amazing job in the world—editor-in-chief of Conde Nast’s Gourmet magazine—we might have greeted the announcement with a little schadenfreude. Really, who among us has a…

JeriAnn GellerSeptember 28, 2015

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Our World Needs More Than “Thoughts & Prayers,” but This Powerful Book Is a Good Start

Almost four years after the horrific school shooting in Parkland, Florida, author Lee Anne Post pays homage to the victims in her novel Thoughts and Prayers (Milford House Press). This riveting and terrifying read takes us into the minds of the perpetrators, the victims and the victims’ families in a…

K.L. RomoNovember 19, 2021

Marcia Gay Harden’s Powerful Memoir Honors Her Mother

The Man Who Brought Cherry Blossoms to D.C., and Other Fun Facts

Morgan Jerkins’ ‘This Will Be My Undoing’ is Timely Portrait of Womanhood in America

Sacred and Complex, Amy Bloom’s ‘White Houses’ Chronicles First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt’s Secret Affair

From One Survivor to Another: A Posthumous Memoir Brings Two Sickle Cell Survivors Together

Tragic, Praiseworthy and Monumental: Review of Tara Westover’s ‘Educated’

ICYMI: ‘A Place of Hope’: Eric L. Motley on His Life in the Historic Madison Park Community

Chef Nobu Matsuhisa’s New Memoir is Comfort Food for the Literary Soul

Yale’s Secret Societies Are Revealed in ‘Skulls and Keys’

The Books Are Better: ‘Snowden’ is a Failure, at Least by Oliver Stone’s Standards

Just Let It Happen: The Joy of Leaving Your Sh*t All Over the Place

Review: Pulitzer Prize Winner Siddhartha Mukherjee’s Laws of Medicine

Review: French Cooking Finds a Tasty New Groove in Bistronomy

Review: Ruth Reichl Shares the Recipes that Saved Her Life in My Kitchen Year

Our World Needs More Than “Thoughts & Prayers,” but This Powerful Book Is a Good Start

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