Kristen Kish’s memoir is not a kitchen tell all. It is a clear eyed account of how a Korean adoptee from the Midwest found her way to professional kitchens, national TV, and a life that finally fits. Accidentally on Purpose moves through […]
Édouard Louis’s brief, blazing portrait of his mother is both elegy and emancipation narrative. In fewer than a hundred pages he traces a life hemmed in by class and by men, then records the moment at forty five when that life breaks […]
Édouard Louis returns with a blistering, intimate work that reads like a reckoning. L’Effondrement is the story of an older brother who dreamed past the borders of his class and the narrow futures available to him, and of the slow collapse that […]
Jeff Hiller’s Actress of a Certain Age: My Twenty-Year Trail to Overnight Success is that rare celebrity memoir that feels both hilarious and healing. Known for his breakout role as Joel in HBO’s Somebody Somewhere, Hiller delivers a deeply funny, tender, and […]
Few memoirs manage to balance heartbreak, humor, and healing with the clarity and depth that Alyson Stoner achieves in Semi-Well-Adjusted Despite Literally Everything. Known to many as the precocious child from Cheaper by the Dozen, Camp Rock, or those iconic Missy Elliott […]
Elizabeth Gilbert has built a career on turning personal transformation into art. From Eat Pray Love’s global pilgrimage of self-discovery to Big Magic’s creative philosophy, she has consistently explored what it means to live authentically. In All the Way to the River: […]