Growing Up As A Bank Robber’s Daughter In ‘Bandit’
In a lot of memoirs, it feels safe to assume that the author really knows what they're writing about. But here's an exception: Molly Brodak's new memoir is about her…
Fresh Air: In ‘Tastes Like War,’ a daughter reckons with her mother’s schizophrenia
In the new memoir, Tastes Like War, Cho chronicles her efforts to reconnect with her mother as an adult. She details the hardships Koonja faced as a child both during…
Ride At Your Own Risk
Love, bikes, and the failing institutions that affect us daily in late stage capitalism. An Autobiography & Memoir minicomic for adults about acab, bicycles, crime, and pandemics. by Sarah Maloney
The Atlas Obscura Podcast: Alone on the Alaskan Frontier
What drives a person to live in isolation? Meet Sue Aikens, who thrives in the icy expanse of the Arctic. She shares stories of survival, self-discovery, and the wild encounters…
Quite Contrary
Arundhati Roy’s memoir of her mother
Writers Mix Movies and Memoir
It can sometimes feel like films narrate our lives. “Everyone has a movie that has mattered to them in their life,” says writer and editor Ryan W. Bradley, who selfishly “wanted…
THE PENGUIN LESSONS
The Penguin Lessons is a 2024 comedy-drama film directed by Peter Cattaneo and starring Steve Coogan and Jonathan Pryce. the script was adapted by Jeff Pope from Tom Michell's memoir…
Start with Overripe Bananas
Instead of hitching up the wagon, still a common mode of transportation in rural North Dakota in the 1920s, your grandmother’s father rouses her and her two sisters and tells…
A Good House
We already lived by such thin margins. One bit of bad luck and we’d have nothing. We knew this as a reality. In a normal market we would’ve put off…
Poets Square A Memoir in Thirty Cats
By Courtney Gustafson