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
Dreams of My Father
Diana Markosian's photos of her long-lost dad
Reborn Again
The memoir of anti-colonial revolutionary Andrée Blouin
Love in Exile
Shon Faye’s earnest case for reimagining love