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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: Eddie Huang
By Elisa Ludwig, eMusic Contributor
A Vice TV host with a law degree, a hip-hop obsession, and a NYC restaurant called Baohaus (serving Taiwanese buns, named for his favorite architects), Eddie Huang is a walking culture clash. In his memoir… more »
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