In Elizabeth Zaleski’s "The Trouble with Loving Poets and Other Essays on Failure", quirky anecdotes proffer insights on family, relationships, and the self. Across five sections, the collection tackles “the trouble with” a variety... Read More

Queer Black author and professor Tisa Bryant’s bold, inventive autobiographical essay collection is about memory, grief, home, and belonging. The hybrid essays combine poetry, stream-of-consciousness prose, scraps of dialogue, lists of... Read More

Linda Cracknell’s captivating memoir concerns her inherited personal connection to the waters of coastal Scotland and England. As an inspired Christmas present in 2015, Cracknell and her siblings gave their somewhat housebound, elderly... Read More

Maya Jewell Zeller’s poetic memoir-in-essays addresses issues of privilege, poverty, immigration, cultural literacy, and the power of nature. The book centers Zeller’s life in the Pacific Northwest. “The Privilege Button”... Read More

Speaking to the importance of self-awareness and self-acceptance when it comes to weathering challenges, "Sincerely, Katherine." is an empathetic LGBTQ+ memoir. Katherine Dudtschak’s affirming memoir "Sincerely, Katherine." is about... Read More

Alternating between wry reflection and heightened vulnerability, "Guess What? I Love You" is a moving memoir about lasting love. Mike Maimone’s moving memoir "Guess What? I Love You" is about his pivotal relationship with an older... Read More

A gripping account of an interfamily blood feud that runs alongside critiques of a patriarchal culture, "A Country Called Brooklyn" is an involving memoir. Hane Selmani’s riveting true crime memoir "A Country Called Brooklyn" details... Read More

Until the Wheels Fall Off is a raw memoir chronicling a widower’s grief following the death of his partner of twenty-nine years. Gary Stephens Jr.’s touching memoir Until the Wheels Fall Off imparts the intensity of his grief for his... Read More