Bio/Memoir Archives

February 5, 2018 2 min read

Tom Eubanks turns the “AIDS Memoir” on its head and in the process provides everyone, regardless of life’s experience, with an incredibly entertaining read. Read More

‘The Big Book of Bisexual Trials and Errors’ by Elizabeth Beier

Cathy Camper

Bio/Memoir

January 7, 2018 2 min read

Elizabeth Beier's new book chronicles her trajectory away from a relationship with a man towards dating women and will appeal to anyone who's ever gone through the frustration of dating. Read More

‘A Pornographer’ by Arch Brown

John Francis Leonard

Reviews

December 31, 2017 2 min read

Brown wore many hats throughout his career, business executive, filmmaker, photographer, production designer, playwright and pornographer, but it’s his earliest, most prolific years as a pornographer, roughly 1967 to 1974, that are captured in this memoir Read More

‘Mean’ by Myriam Gurba

Liz von Klemperer

Bio/Memoir

December 21, 2017 3 min read

Mean chronicles Gurba’s sexual assault as well as her coming of age as a queer, mixed-race girl growing up in Southern California Read More

‘Keeping On Keeping On’ by Alan Bennett

David Pratt

Bio/Memoir

December 5, 2017 3 min read

Alan Bennett's fourth volume of mixed reminiscence, diary entries, and occasional pieces is one sly, beautifully turned, wonderfully descriptive sentence after another. Read More

‘Something in the Blood: The Untold Story of Bram Stoker, the Man Who Wrote Dracula’ by David J. Skal

Tom Cardamone

Reviews

October 31, 2017 6 min read

With David Skal’s carefully researched and inviting tome, Stoker is finally drawn out from behind the shadows Read More

‘The One You Get’ by Jason Tougaw

Alex Tunney

Bio/Memoir

October 21, 2017 4 min read

Anything can be altered: bodies, minds and stories. And they can be altered through various means: substances, other people, and the passage of time. Tougaw is not only very aware of this, but also very curious about it. The memoir itself is a product of this curiosity Read More

‘Logical Family’ by Armistead Maupin

Ken Harvey

Bio/Memoir

October 1, 2017 4 min read

The personal stories in Armistead Maupin's new memoir, especially those about growing up in a racist, segregated South, could not have come out at a more relevant time Read More