"3 Songs" is a musing memoir–cum–cultural analysis through music. Randy Gibbons’s autobiographical history of three jazz standards, "3 Songs", relates the songs to his own story, to their place in American history, and to each... Read More

The revealing memoir "The Set Up" is about overcoming adversity through religion, connections, and personal strength. Carl Edward Jackson’s candid memoir "The Set Up" is about his tumultuous adulthood in the South. When Jackson was... Read More

A story of intentional personal growth, "The World Is My Mirror" records world travels and other events that became foundational to its author’s flourishing. Riza Rasco’s evocative memoir "The World Is My Mirror" is about lessons... Read More

Grounded in keen observations and contextualized in a crash course of history, "How the Rhino Lost His Horn" is a knowledgeable, tantalizing travel memoir–cum–social critique. Chronicling a journey from the Amish countryside to the... Read More

Molly Gaudry’s "Fit Into Me" is a hybrid book that challenges notions of the self, authenticity, reliability, appropriation, and truth. This multigenre work—both a novel-within-a-memoir and a memoir-within-a-novel—follows the... Read More

Sim Butler’s incisive memoir "And the Dragons Do Come" is about raising a transgender child in the Deep South. Butler assumed that his firstborn child was a boy. But after years of her fervent insistence that she was a girl, coupled... Read More

Catharina Coenen’s memoir-in-essays "Unexploded Ordnance" draws on history, biology, philosophy, and linguistics to explore social trauma and unspoken, inherited memories. A German immigrant, Coenen moved to the United States for... Read More

Full of empathy, humor, and love, Kelly Foster Lundquist’s memoir "Beard" details the trajectory of her marriage to a gay man. When Lundquist and Devin first met as counselors at a Christian summer camp, their connection was immediate.... Read More