Alice Carrière, Lynn Melnick: Essays, Memoir
EssaysThese two essay collections explore the artist's life, a bohemian upbringing, and the challenges of finding your voice as an artist.
Drew Gilpin Faust: Memoir
MemoirA memoir of coming of age in a conservative Southern family in postwar America. Faust will be in conversation with Ann Patchett.
Lisa Dordal, Anya Liftig, Alison Mills Newman: Memoir, Fiction
FictionThese collections of essays and letters explore mother-daughter relationships, artistic creativity, and forging identity in the chasm between culture and classes.
Mignon François, Memoir
Memoir"All you have is all you need" is the life lesson entrepreneur Mignon François learned as she turned the $5 she had to feed her family dinner for the week into a multi-million-dollar bakery brand. With no experience and no recipe for success, or cake for that matter, her path was truly made from scratch.
Gary Gulman: Memoir, Comedy
MemoirA tour de force of comedy and reflection about the perilous journey from kindergarten to twelfth grade and beyond--from the beloved stand-up comic and creator of The Great Depresh.
Janice Deal, Jessica Hendry Nelson, Matthew Vollmer: Memoir
MemoirWhat makes a family, and how much can we sacrifice for them? Through a novel and two memoirs in beautiful prose, these writers ask the fundamental questions and help us answer them for ourselves.
Eddie Chuculate, Doan Phuong Nguyen: Middle Grade
MemoirThrough very personal experiences, these two middle grade authors tell stories about belonging and hope through hardship in fiction and memoir.
Jay Wellons: Memoir, Medicine
MemoirIn All That Moves Us, Dr. Jay Wellons pulls back the curtain to reveal the profoundly moving triumphs, haunting complications, and harrowing close calls that characterize the life of a pediatric neurosurgeon, bringing the high-stakes drama of the operating room to life with astonishing candor and honest compassion.