Shayna Goodman
Trauma does not exist in a vacuum — it’s always layered.
Finding Myself in a Memoir About Someone Else
Tag: memoir
A Kaddish in Havana
Hasia Diner
I think of her not just as the source of my wallets and maracas, but as a hero of the revolution, someone who stayed when so many of her peers left.
Davon Loeb: Writing In-Between (and Outside) the Lines
Martha Anne Toll
“How could I pick just one when I was, ethnically, as Black as I was Jewish-white?”
An Octogenarian’s Memoir of Wild Midlife Reinvention
Yona Zeldis McDonough
“Naked at the Helm” takes on the second half of life.
A Writer’s Final Farewell to a Spouse
Justine Orlovsky-Schnitzler
I was hesitant to pick up In Love as a newlywed. I am superstitious enough to worry about inviting misfortune by way of acknowledging it. But when I stood under the chuppah last November and married my husband, I remember thinking about death.
A Mom, Not a Superhero: Debi Lewis On “Kitchen Medicine”
Mikhal Weiner
Parents break sometimes, and we put ourselves back together. But if we never see any stories of other people doing it, it makes us feel like monsters.
This Will Be Funny Later: Jenny Pentland on Fame’s Glare
Yona Zeldis McDonough
You might not know who Jenny Pentland is, but if you read her new book, This Will Be Funny Later (Harper, $27.99), you’ll want to; the hilarious memoir, by turns scorching and poignant, reveals what’s like to have one of America’s funniest comedians—Roseanne Barr—for a mother.
“Life is the Curveball:” Aileen Weintraub on Her Bedrest Memoir
Mikhal Weiner
“Life doesn’t throw curveballs at you. Life is the curveball.”
A Mother’s Lost Life, Before the War
Yona Zeldis McDonough
Julie Metz talks to Fiction Editor Yona Zeldis McDonough her new book Eve and Eva: A Search for My Mother’s Lost Childhood and What War Left Behind (Atria).
Buried Under Years of Dust: An Interview with Valerie Gilpeer and Emily Grodin
Yona Zeldis McDonough
“Please do not constrict autistic people. We can only grow as much as the environment around us.”