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Sick in the head: I've diagnosed myself with heart attacks, blood poisoning, meningitis and multiple sclerosis. Turns out, what I had was hypochondria.; By Jennifer Traig Jun 21, 2008
Summer reads: True confessions: From a trek through the American West to a life filled with music, these memoirs will whisk you away.; By Salon staff Jun 9, 2008
Another pretty face of a generation: The question isn't why a blogger like Emily Gould has the spotlight -- it's why other women don't.; By Rebecca Traister May 29, 2008
Barbara Walters interviews Barbara Walters: In her new memoir, "Audition," the iconic television journalist plumbs the troubled childhood and love life of her ultimate subject -- herself.; By Rebecca Traister May 6, 2008
Tangled up in Dylan: Suze Rotolo, the musician's first muse, has written an entertaining memoir about their love affair that is also a remarkable portrait of living and making art in the 1960s.; By Stephanie Zacharek Apr 26, 2008
To cut my breasts off, or not to cut my breasts off ...: After testing positive for the "breast cancer gene," "Gilmore Girls" writer Jessica Queller made a radical choice -- a preventive double mastectomy.; By Corrie Pikul Apr 2, 2008
Attention, all you memoir fabulists!: In light of recent scandals, we will now require arrest records and stool samples from all autobiographers. And can someone fact-check the Gospels?; By Louis Bayard Mar 7, 2008
Die, Daddy, die!: After a lifetime of competing with his father, writer David Shields has had enough. But the aged patriarch remains "cussedly, maddeningly alive."; By Louis Bayard Mar 4, 2008
My beautiful, drug-addicted boy: David Sheff recounts how he lost his son to meth and the long, agonizing struggle to get him back.; By Katharine Mieszkowski Mar 1, 2008
How does a single father ever get laid?: I have two kids to raise, a dating scene to navigate, and a rubber vagina in my drawer. Bachelorhood is off to a rough start.; By Trey Ellis Feb 7, 2008
Salon Book Awards 2007: From an imaginary history of Alaskan Jews to a compelling glimpse of the CIA, we pick the 10 most pleasurable reading experiences of the year.; By Laura Miller Dec 12, 2007
Clapton is not God: The legendary guitarist's autobiography is an exhausting, but ultimately moving, journey through a dazed life.; By Gary Kamiya Oct 31, 2007
Fair Plame: After years of enforced silence, Valerie Plame Wilson finally tells all -- except for the stuff the CIA blacked out.; By Rebecca Traister Oct 24, 2007
All the candidates' books: The 2008 presidential contenders have written way too many books. A readers guide to 18 of them, the Good, the Bad and the Cosmic.; By Salon staff Oct 18, 2007
Arthur M. Schlesinger's playbill for the American century: His personal journals unveil the glory and corruption of postwar presidents with emotional truth and power. Alas, the age of the great historian is over.; By Sidney Blumenthal Oct 18, 2007
Salon's guide to Nobel winner Doris Lessing: Novelist, memoirist, activist, fantasist -- this entry from "The Salon.com Reader's Guide to Contemporary Authors" takes you on a guided tour of the celebrated writer's long literary career.; By Laura Morgan Green Oct 12, 2007
The feminist who made me blush: Political columnist Katha Pollitt has been vilified for airing her romantic dirty laundry. What's wrong with serious women writers exposing their soft underbellies to the world?; By Rebecca Traister Sep 26, 2007
"Relative Stranger": A writer sifts through the wreckage of her schizophrenic sister's short life. Can she penetrate the helter-skelter chaos to understand what was going on in her mind?; By Emily Weinstein Aug 24, 2007
In meth we trust: Two riveting books look at methamphetamines past and present -- from miracle cure to today's drug scourge -- and why sleep-deprived, sex-obsessed America craves crank.; By Elizabeth Hand Aug 16, 2007
"A Russian Diary": A posthumous memoir from murdered journalist Anna Politkovskaya gives readers a glimpse of the dark side of post-Soviet Russia.; By Alexander Nazaryan Jul 2, 2007
The lives of others: Biographer Meryle Secrest shares her secrets: Don't fall in love with Stephen Sondheim, and watch out for Salvador Dali's hit men.; By Rachel Aviv Jun 27, 2007
Sad, but true, Hollywood story: Rupert Everett's autobiography serves up plenty of Hollywood dish -- but even the the tastiest bits can't cover the bitterness of a fading career.; By Sean Kennedy Feb 1, 2007
Too much Gore: Vidal's second memoir merely retells the stories we already know from his enormous -- and potentially irrelevant -- body of work.; By Allen Barra Jan 3, 2007
Finding "The Lost": Salon Book Award winner Daniel Mendelsohn discusses his search for missing relatives, the "overfamiliarity" of the Holocaust, and why we should listen to our elders.; By Andrew O'Hehir Dec 14, 2006
Life goes on: In a heroic memoir, Donald Antrim explores his relationship with his late mother -- a troubled alcoholic he couldn't live with, or without.; By Ian Chang Aug 15, 2006

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