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Sam Sheridan, The Disaster Di…
Sam Sheridan could have been Batman. The dude is a former wilderness fire… more »
Wendy McClure, The Wilder Lif…
Though the 1970s TV series starring Michael Landon cemented its status as… more »
Caroline de Margerie, America…
Nancy Mitford modeled a character on her, but it was as a comically prigg… more »
Chinua Achebe, There Was a Co…
There Was a Country, Chinua Achebe’s firsthand account of the Niger… more »
John Taylor, In the Pleasure …
For fans of the ’80s superpop group Duran Duran (and let’s be… more »
Neil Young, Waging Heavy Peac…
Have you ever wished your grandfather told cooler stories? Like, say, abo… more »
Henri Charrière, Papil…
Papillon, Henri Charrière’s bestselling memoir of his incarc… more »
Ryan Holiday, Trust Me, I…
As epiphanies go, Ryan Holiday’s came pretty late. By the time the … more »
Paul Auster, Winter Journal…
Death does not become Paul Auster but, in this memoir, it consumes him. I… more »
Janet Groth, The Receptionist…
Janet Groth’s memoirs of the two decades she spent as the reception… more »
Daniel Smith, Monkey Mind: A …
First, a warning to all listeners who themselves suffer from anxiety: Dan… more »
A.J. Jacobs, Drop Dead Health…
Esquire editor A.J. Jacobs’s three books in which he subjects himse… more »
Justin Halpern, I Suck at Gir…
In 2009, dumped by his girlfriend and living back home with the folks, Ju… more »
Lizz Winstead, Lizz Free Or D…
“Messays” from your favorite snarky, sarcastic but also secre… more »
Gideon Lewis-Kraus, A Sense o…
At 27, Gideon Lewis-Kraus was living a “nonstop moral holiday… more »
Jenny Lawson, Let’s Pre…
Listening to Jenny Lawson — often better known by her nom de web Th… more »
Rachel Dratch, Girl Walks int…
Laugh-out-loud wit and plenty of self-deprecation “Where have you b… more »
Cheryl Strayed, Wild
An affecting memoir that voids the temptation for wholesale epiphany Ther… more »
Anthony Shadid , House of Sto…
A reporter’s eye and a son’s heart converge in war-torn Leban… more »
Kristen Johnston, Guts…
Actress Kristen Johnston was primarily known to audiences as an Amazonian… more »
Katherine Boo, Behind the Bea…
Combats one-dimensional depictions of life in Indian slums The “Ind… more »
Michael Ian Black, You’…
Full of inventive insults, but undoubtedly a tribute In his new memoir, Y… more »
Paul Collins, The Murder of t…
A bizarre murder reinvents American journalism When Martin Thorn murdered… more »
Diane Brady, Fraternity…
The most astonishing revelation of Diane Brady’s Fraternity comes i… more »
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eMusic Features
Interview: George Saunders
By Amanda Davidson, eMusic Contributor
George Saunders's newest story, published only as an audiobook and Kindle Single, is told from the point of view of Fox 8, the title character who pens his tale of friendship and loss by way… more »
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