Let's Take the Long Way Home: A Memoir of Friendship

A testament to the power of friendship, a story of how an extraordinary bond between two women can illuminate the loneliest, funniest, hardest moments in life, including the final and ultimate challenge.
They met over their dogs. Both writers, Gail Caldwell and Caroline Knapp, author of Drinking: A Love Story, became best friends, talking about everything from their shared history of a struggle with alcohol, to their relationships with men and colleagues, to their love of books.

Tim Russert, one of America’s most watched and trusted news anchors‚ connected with readers across the nation with his critically acclaimed memoir about growing up in the 1950s and the special bond between fathers and sons.

Writing the Memoir From Truth to Art



Since Writing the Memoir came out in early 1997 it has sold roughly 20,000 copies and is consistently praised as "the best book on memoir out there." It is thought-provoking, explanatory, and practical: each chapter ends with writing exercises. It covers everything from questions of truth and ethics to questions of craft and the crucial retrospective voice. An appendix provides information on legal issues...

Girl, Interrupted

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Girl, Interrupted is a best-selling^[1] 1993 memoir by American author Susanna Kaysen. In the book, Kaysen relates her experiences as a patient in a psychiatric hospital in the 1960s after being diagnosed with borderline personality disorder. The memoir's title is a reference to the Vermeer painting Girl Interrupted at her Music^[2].

While writing the novel Far Afield Kaysen began to recall her almost two years at McLean Hospital^[3]. Once done with the book she obtained her file from the hospital with the help of a lawyer and began to write Girl, Interrupted.^[4]

In 1999, the memoir was adapted into a film of the same name starring Winona Ryder and Angelina Jolie. It was directed by James Mangold.

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The Liar's Club
Mary Karr’s The Liars’ Club, published in 1995 in New York, is a memoir of Karr’s turbulent childhood in the fictional eastern Texas town of Leechfield, and later in Colorado.
The memoir describes the sort of childhood that many people would wish to avoid. Mary’s parents fight constantly and eventually divorce only to remarry later.
Although the pages of The Liars’ Club are chock full of arguments, fights, and unsavory incidents of all kinds, the memoir was hugely successful. Readers probably also sense that underneath the surface turbulence, this dysfunctional family still loves each other.
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