Category: Memoir

Young Man, Muddled Robert Kanigel In this, his first memoir, celebrated biographer and non-fiction book author Robert Kanigel tells of “muddling” his way into adulthood, love, and a new life. The 1950s formed him first; then the 1960s got their grip on him. His journey, rich in its sense of time and place, begins with… Continue reading Young Man, Muddled

The Five People You’ll Meet in Prison A Memoir of Addiction, Mania & Hope Brandon M. Stickney After years of hedonism in the literary life, journalist Brandon M. Stickney is caught in an opiate epidemic drug sting and sentenced to prison. Surrounded by society’s most troubled individuals and hostile guards, Stickney faces his addiction and… Continue reading The Five People You’ll Meet in Prison

Outpedaling “the Big C” My Healing Cycle Across America Elizabeth McGowan “Proceed as the way opens” is how William Least Heat-Moon put it in his book, River Horse. The line becomes a sort of mantra for Pulitzer Prize-winner Elizabeth McGowan, a melanoma survivor. Having been given a five-year clean bill of health, McGowan decides to bicycle… Continue reading Outpedaling “the Big C”

Last of the Gladiators A Memoir of Love, Redemption, and the Mob: by the Son of the Legendary Trial Lawyer Jimmy LaRossa James M. LaRossa Jr. From the 1960s until the turn of the 21st century, New York City was the world’s epicenter of organized and white-collar crime. During those four decades, the most feared… Continue reading Last of the Gladiators

Kaufman’s Hill John C. Hampsy A profound and intensely moving boyhood memoir,  Kaufman’s Hill opens with a prosaic neighborhood scene: The author and some other young boys are playing by the creek, one of their usual stomping grounds. But it soon becomes clear that much more is going on; the boy-narrator is struggling to find… Continue reading Kaufman’s Hill