Fans of Hollywood, once content with maps detailing the homes of movie stars, now prefer detailed flow charts of the...
Sarah Leavitt takes on the difficult task of chronicling the devastating loss of both her mother, and her mother’s memory to Alzheimer’s, in this graphic novel. Read More
The title of Alison Bechdel’s novel riffs off P.D. Eastman’s book Are You My Mother?, an easy-reader many babyboomers who...
Spanning the breadth of her parents’ tumultuous relationship and ending with the aftermath of her mother’s death, author, therapist, and...
Henry Holt/Macmillan recently released Most Talkative, a new memoir from Bravo network mastermind Andy Cohen.
In this clip from the audio-book, Andy reminiscences on his first celebrity pow wow--a meeting with the soap-opera diva Susan Lucci. Read More
For Ladin, life didn’t get better when she began her gender transition in 2007. In many ways, it got worse: her wife and children rejected her, her suicidal ideation intensified, and for a time she lost everything. Read More
Transgender icon Kate Bornstein’s long awaited memoir A Queer and Pleasant Danger: The true story of a nice Jewish boy...
"For years, I tried to control my drinking and my drug use, and I nearly lost my life because of it. I hurt many people in that deluded thrashing. In the writing of these two books, which has taken up all of my free time for the last six years, I think--coming to the end--I felt a real sense of closure..."
Writer and literary agent Bill Clegg took some time to talk with Lambda about his new memoir, Ninety Days, his "relationship" with New York City, and the trials of staying sober. Read More
Clegg has made relapse the subject and not recovery the subject. That self-proclaimed emphasis is this book’s great strength because the question posed from the very beginning of whether or not he’s going to do crack again or drink again is never really answered. In a large way, this is a book about not finding the answer, when most memoirs are poised to do the exact opposite... Read More
“Writing a memoir about living people in your family is a problematic undertaking . I think I only do it...
