By Matthew Robinson
Matthew Robinson shifted anger out of his life and into his fiction.
All tagged Memoir
There is a Light That Never Goes Out
By Wendy Bourgeois
Sex, death, and lines from Philip Larkin.
Looking Back, Mortified
By Alex Behr
Why would we betray our younger self?
Does a priest like God?
By Daneen Bergland & Wendy Bourgeois
A conversation about poetry, philosophy, the role of autobiography in criticism, and Wendy Bourgeois’s essay collection, The Devil Says Maybe I Like It.
Moments of Discovery
By Mary Rechner
Debra Gwartney talks about structure and self-awareness in her new memoir, I am a Stranger Here Myself.
To Sucker
By John Carr Walker
My father took the whole family suckering the spring I was eleven, my sister six. It's the only time I remember all of us working in the vineyards together. Dad was trying to teach us a lesson about work ethic—Dad always said he was teaching work ethic, though I can say now the only thing I learned from him about work was do things his way, or else.
Mohamed Asem Discusses Stranger in the Pen on Think Out Loud
Asem’s memoir of detainment is new from Perfect Day Publishing.
Shitty Diapers
By Noah Powell
When help isn’t helping.