BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Personal Memoirs

Traveling Freely, the debut essay collection from poet Roberto Carlos Garcia, explores intersecting topics such as race, identity, and socioeconomic inequality from a uniquely Black Dominican American view.

A collection of narrative essays explores the search for belonging as a queer person and woman in the American South—and beyond.

Fear. Disgust. Pity. The cripple evokes our basest human emotions—as does the monster.

Part memoir, part imagined history, this unique personal essay depicts the intimate experience of childhood bereavement, lost love affairs, and the complicated realities of motherhood and marriage.

The memoirs of Ariadna Efron provide an intimate and indispensable perspective on the poet Marina Tsvetaeva's life and work, told from the point of view of her daughter.

Dead Weight chronicles the experiences of a drug smuggler who, after being sentenced to eight years in state prison, earned a PhD in creative writing and became the only tenured professor in the United States with seven felony convictions.

  


 

My Brother's Madness is based on the author's relationship with his brother—who had a psychotic breakdown in his late forties—and explores the unfolding of two intertwined lives and the nature of delusion. Circumstances lead one brother from juvenile crime on the streets of Brooklyn to war-torn Vietnam, to a fast-track life as a Hollywood publicist to owning and operating The Tin Palace, one of New York's most legendary jazz clubs, while his brother falls into, and fights his way back from, a delusional psychosis.